Economic policy in the international economy
Subtitle: essays in honor of Assaf Razin
By: edited by Elhanan Helpman, Efraim Sadka
Contributors: Razin, Assaf; Helpman, Elhanan; Sadka, Efraim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
Subjects: Economic policy -- Congresses; Economic development -- Congresses; International finance -- Congresses; International economic relations -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at a conference in honor of Assaf Razin's 60th birthday at the Tel Aviv University, Mar. 25-26, 2001

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Crises: the next generation? / Paul Krugman; title: Solutions (?) to the "devaluation bias": some preventive measures to defend fixed exchange rates against self-fulfilling attacks / Chi-Wa Yuen; title: Growth-enhancing effects of bailout guarantees / Aaron Tornell; title: Risk and exchange rates / Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth S. Rogoff; title: Economic integration, industrial specialization, and the asymmetry of macroeconomic fluctuations / Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sørensen, and Oved Yosha; title: Uncovered interest parity in crisis: the interest rate defense in the 1990s / Robert P. Flood and Andrew K. Rose; title: When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts? / Carlos Arteta, Barry Eichengreen, and Charles Wyplosz; title: Sources of inflation in developing countries / Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel; title: Growth effects and the cost of business cycles / Gadi Barlevy; title: Explaining economic growth / Yair Mundlak; title: Simulating fundamental tax reform in the United States / David Altig ... [et al.]; title: The international macroeconomics of taxation and the case against European tax harmonization / Enrique G. Mendoza; title: Home bias in portfolios and taxation of asset income / Roger H. Gordon and Vitor Gaspar; title: Social dumping in the transformation process? / Hans-Werner Sinn; title: Do political institutions shape economic policy? / Torsten Persson