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ASSAF RAZIN


Cornell University

Department of Economics 
Ithaca, NY 14853 
USA 
Phone number: (607)-255 9625
Fax number: (607)-255 2818 

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/arazin/

 


 

Research Affiliations

NBER Research Associate; CEPR Reseasrch Fellow; 
CES-ifo Research Fellow. 

My Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (word, pdf) , Bio (word, pdf, hebrew) Citations (google scholar, SSCI cited research), (SSRN abstracts, downloads). Amazon Books (link), MIT Press Books (link) Books (link)

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  Lea Nikel

Current Research on Migration and the Welfare State

Creditor Rights and Financial Crises (word, pdf, tex, vox)

Social Security and liberalized migration policy (tex, pdf)

FDI vs FPI (2008tex. 2009tex) (2008Tables, 2009Tables)

Immigration into the welfare state (tex, pdf-jan09, pdf-April09) (ppt slides) (pdf slides)

Effects of Migration on Social Security: Demographic Balance and Political Balance (tex)

Great Depression vs. The Current Crisis (ppt july 2009, ppt)

Effect of migration on the Welfare State (zip,tex, pdf, cepr, NBER, presentation)

Migration and the Welfare State: Dynamic Political-economy Theory (tex, pdf)

Monograph on the welfare state and international migration (zip, tex, pdf)

Immigration and Social Security (Sept2008.tex, September2008.pdf, tex, overview presentation, pdf, oldtex, oldpdf, slides2008, slides, Figure 1, Figure 2)

Creditor Protection and Asset Price Volatility (tex , pdf)(HKIMR) (2008presentation)

Ageing and Size of Redistributions: Role of Fiscal Leakages (tex)

Lea Nikel

Markovian Political Economy Tax Model (draft) (slide)

An Overlapping Generations Model of A Welfare State (tex)

Stability-and-Growth Pact and Privatization of Social Security: A Political-Economy Model

(pdf file)(tex file)(slide1, slide2,tables)

Welfare Migration (word)

Privatizing Social Security (pdf) (tex) (link)

Privatizing Social Security (link)

Boon and Burden of Welfare Migration (text)

Jankel Adler

Recently Published  Papers

Haim Kiewe

Liquidity Crises and the Composition of Capital Exports (tex, pdf, Slides: pdf, tex))

Liquidity Crises, Transparency, and the Composition of Equity Exports (pdf, slides)

Tax and Productivity as Drivers of FDI (link, pdf)

Flattenning of the Phillips Curve and Monetary Policy (presentation)(word, pdf) (numerical simulations)

Bilateral FDI Flows and Productivity (tex) (tables)(text pdf)

Corporate Taxes and FDI (tex) (pdf) (slide)(Europe) (Tables) (tax competition)

Globalization and Disinflation (IsER text) (presentation, slide)

Fixed Costs and FDI (pdf) (slide) (tex)

FDI/FPI Ratio and Liquidity (pdf, tables, tex) (pdf) (Word)(slide)(presentation1) (presentation2

The Political Economy of Capital Tax with Aging Population
(Tex File), (PDF file), (Slide)(welfare state)

Competition between Tax Authorities (pdf)

Which Countries Export FDI, and How Much: Rich-Rich and Rich-Poor Flows 

(pdf) (tex) (Tables&Figures: pdf, exl) (Slide1) (slide2) (slide3)

International tax competition (pdf) (tex)

Volatility of Capital Flows: FDI vs. FPI, text, slides

Corporate Transparecy, Cream Skimming and FDI (tex) (pdf) (table) (Tex File, fig), (PDF file), (Transparency)

The Wage Gap and Labor Tax: A political Economy Model
(Tex File), (PDF file)

Aggregate Supply and Potential Output (JMCB) (word)(slides

The Size of the Welfare State: Lobbying, and Majority-VotingChannels

(pdfnew)(pdfold) (European Migration)(slides

Interactions between Migration and the Welfare State (cesifo version)(pdf), earlier version (tex) (pdf)

The Aging of the Population and the Size of Welfare State: (JPE) (link) (PDF file) (Slide) (IMF file

Tax Burden and International Migration: Political-Economy Theory and Evidence (JpubE
cover&tables,text, figure

The "New Keynesian" Phillips Curve: Closed Economy vs. Open Economy  (PDF file)(empirics) (slide) (extension

A Brazilian Type Credit-Rating Crunch Model (word, fig

Terms of Trade and Investment Instability
(pdf file), Figures: 1, 2,3, 4, (NBER wp)

Reversals of Capital Flow

(text)

Menashe Kadishman

Origins of  Endogenous Growth

1. Human Capital Accumulation and Endogenous Growth (Razin, Metroeconomica 1972)

2. Human Capital Accumulation and Technological Change (Razin,link, Review of Economic Studies 1973)

3.  Intergenerational Model of Population Growth (Razin and Ben-zion, American Economic Review 1975 (link)

4. Mystery of Growth (Book review, 2006, Helpman's Book Download (link))

Naftali Bezem



North-Holland Published Articles
NBER Working Papers (Write: Razin) 



Meir Lazar

 
 

Overviews

The Credit Crunch 2007-2009 (ppt)

Israel's higher education (pdf)

Globalization and inflation (pdf)

The Great Depression vs. the 2007-9 Global Crisis (ppt)

Growth Economics (book Review)

Migration and the welfare state: Agenda for Research(text, references , abstract)

Wages in the Health Sector in Israel (pdf)

Israel Higher Education (IsER)


Monetary Policy and Potential Output
(word) Fiscal Policy (cesifo

Cuurent Account Sustainability (link)

Globalization and Disinflation (link)

Globalization and Society -"The 50th Anniversary of the "Rivoon L'Calcala" (link)

Migration and the Welfare State (PDF file, reference
Globalization, poverty and inequality (html)

FDI contribution to capital flows and investment in capacity (EASE13,HKIMR

Demography Issues (pdf)
Oil Shock (word) Global Disconnect--Physical and Informational Distance

(pdf)

Average vs Marginal Taxation
(pdf)

Marcel Janko

 

The World Economy 2004 (word)

Eurozone (pdf) (doc)

Developing Countries (Tables

FDI and Investment (investment, growth

Foreign Direct Investment: Pros and Cons (downloads
draft

FDI: Research issues

Capital  Flow Reversals-- NBER Research Profile-1

FDI Flows: A Critical View--
NBER Research Profile-2
empirics

Capital Flows and Growth (Hebrew

Israel Medical Doctors Wages (report, appendix)

 

 

Pincas Litvinovsky

US Economy

US Housing Market (ft)

US Current Account and the Dollar (ppt),
recorded lecture (.wmv)

US Economy (charts

(Taxation )(current account)

Pension

(Pension Insurance)

(pension gap)

 

EU Enlargement

(pdf)

EU Enlargement (Word) (Table1, Table2)

Eurozone (word)

Turkey (pdf)

Italian Economy (Fiscal Stance

FDI Flows and Domestic Investment (CES-ifo Economic Studies,(tex), (pdf), Figures), Simultaneity (preliminary text

Higher Education (Andreu Mas-Colell)

Capital Mobility and International Taxation, 1(PDF File, figure), 2 (PDF File

International Tax Equivalencies - Exposition

International Trade and International Migration

Milton Friedman (hebrew

  Mount Tabor

Newspaper Articles

Treasury Secretary circa 2009 (Haaretz)

The Kibbutz Pension Crisis (calcalist)

Brain Drain (html)
 A Tax on Returning Israelies

Finance Minister,more

The Spring 2003 Economic Program

An Economic Road Map

The longest recession

Privatizing a Kibbutz(word, stockmarket, article) (quasi-social security)
 

Privatized Medical Service

BUDGET AND PENSION REFORMS (Doc

New Bank-of-Israel Law (doc

Bank of Israel and Accountants behind  a "Nominal Reform",link

New Law About Consumer Creditworthiness Information, link

Globalization and the Arab Sector

Emerging Palestinian economy? (word, new book, WB Report, a 2004 book)



Ofair Razin

Leo Roth

1. Economics of Globalization: Policy Perspectives From Public Economics, (1999) , Publisher's Release

Assaf Razin And Efraim Sadka (eds)) - Cambridge University Press, with a special chapter from Ofair Razin's PH.D dissertationReal Exchange-Rate Misalignments and Growth, by Ofair Razin and Susan M. Collins

2. Ofair Razin Hall In Tel Aviv University,

3. Georgetown University Lecture series

The 2003 Lecture, 1, 2, 3, 4,  page 12 The 2007 Award Ceremony
 
 




Ancient Chinese Artifact (Fabricated?)

 


Economics Videos for Beginers

(Assaf Razin's Hebrew Videos )

 

Undergraduate Economics


I. UNDERGRADUATE OPEN-ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS

syllabus,
International Indicators (bop, ER, etc)
Introduction, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch12, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch13
Balance-of-Payments Accounting (ppt)
1.Flexible Exchange Rate: Exogenous Output, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch14
2.Flexible Exchange Rate: Endogenous Output, Krugman-Obstfeld--ch15Krugman-Obstfeld Ch 15Krugman-Obstfeld Ch 15, krugmanobstfeldch16.pp
3.Fixed Exchange Rate,krugmanobstfeldch17.pp , Impossible Trinity
4.Flexible vs Fixed Exchange Rate Systems, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch19
5. International Debt Crisis:a,
  b, c, d
6. Balance of Payments Dynamics

7. ppp and exchange rates in the short and the long run (pdf)

7. Why the Dollar Falls: An Intertemporal Adjustment (word)

7. Optimum Currency Areas, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch20

8. Financial Crises, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch22

Homework1, Homework2, Homework 3,

9. The International Monetary System

 10. Optimum Currency Areas

11. Developing Countries: Crises and Reforms

 12. The Global Capital Markets , International capital market (Krugman-Obstfeld Ch 21 ) (The US Deficit)

II. UNDERGRADUATE INTERNATIONAL TRADE

syllabus,

Introduction-Krugman-Obstfeld-ch1
1.The Ricardian Model with Two Goods,Krugman-Obstfeld-ch2
2. The Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods:a,
b,
3.Specific Factors and Income Distribution, Krugman-obstfeld-ch3

3.Relative Supply of Factors and   Comparative Advantage,a,
b , c, Krugman-obstfeld-ch4
4.Economies of Scale and International Trade,a,
b , Krugman-obstfeld-ch6
5.International Trade Policy, a,
b, Krugman-Obstfeld-ch8
6. Optimum tariff , Krugman-Obstfeld-ch9
Krugman-Obstfeld-ch10
Krugman-Obstfeld-ch11

7. International Debt Crisis:a,
  b, c,

Globalization (word)

Doha Trade Round (Doha Trade Round) (Farm Subsidies)
  (Boeing vs Airbus, Airbus vs Boeing)
 

Homework1,Homework2, Homework3,Homework4,Homework5

Homework 6

7. International Factor Movements

8.Trade Policies: Developing Countries
video

 


 

 

 

Menashe Kadishman

II. A Graduate Course in  International Trade and Foreign Investment

Syllabus


i. International Trade


1. Introduction
(ppt)


2. Intra-industry Heterogeneity with Fixed Costs of Exporting: The Melitz Model
(2003) (notes)

3. Intra-industry Heterogeneity and Bertrand Competition: Bernard,
Eaton, Jensen, and Kortum (2003),
a. The Eaton-Kortum Model (notes1, notes2)
b. Sources of Comparative Advantage
(notes, slides) Trade (text),
c. The Alvarez-Lucas Calibration (notes)
4. Gene M. Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Outsourcing Model (notes)

5. complementarity between trade in goods and trade in assets (ppt)

ii. Foreign Direct Investment


1. Liquidity Crunch and FDI (notes)
2. Heckman Econometrics in the Razin-Sadka FDI Book(text) (notes)
3. Tax and Productivity as Drivers of FDI (notes, powerpoint, pdf)
4. Tax Competition and FDI (Notes, slides)
This part is Based on the Razin - Sadka Book: Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows
(Princeton University Press, 2007)

5. Fire Sale FDI (slides)

iii. Dynamics of Capital Flows


1. Introduction
a. Complete vs. Incomplete Capital Markets (Helpman and Razin Ch 3)
b. Dynamic model of Trade in Goods and Assets (Helpman and Razin Ch 11)


2. New Models of Capital Flows

a. The Pavlova and Rigobon Model
(paper, slides)
b. Devereux and Southerland Model (notes, slides)
c. The Tille and van Wincoop Model (paper, slides)
d. The Caballero and Krishnamurty Micotrade Model: Flight for Quality Model (notes, slides)

e. Trade and Financial Frictions (Antras and Caballero)

III. The 1990s Graduate Course in International Trade
1.Gains from Trade

2.Factor Proportions and the Structure of Trade (ppt)
3.Complete and Incomplete Capital Markets
4.Dynamics of International Trade
5.Lobbying and Tariffs
6.Trade in Capital Goods
7.International Migration
8.Balance Sheets Effects and the Real Exchange Rate
9.Home-Bias Portfolio and the Saving-Investment Correlations

10. The Eaton-Kortum Model (pdf) (word), Sources of Comparative Advantage (slides, text) Trade (pdf)

11. The Alvarez-Lucas Calibration (doc)

12. Pol Antras Lecture Notes

13. Gene M. Grossman and
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg notes (outsourcing, slides)

Naftali Bezem

 

Pincas Litvinovsky

 

Pictures

 

Karl Marx, Friedriech Engels, and Me

Nelson Mandela and Me

Mt. Tabor 2004
 

Berlin 2004

Tel Aviv 2004
 

Munich Pinakotheka

Ottawa 2003

NYU

2 of my Tel Aviv University Colleagues a b

Seward (Lincoln's secretary of state) home (a, b)

Stanford 2001 WebPage

Pincas Litvinovsky

 

My Family

Iddo Razin


 

Tel Aviv University

Department of Economics 
Tel Aviv University 
Tel Aviv 69978 
ISRAEL 
Office Telephone: 972-3-640-7303 
Fax: 972-3-642-8074 or 972-3-640-9908 (O) 
972-3-641-4475 (H) 
e-mail: razin@post.tau.ac.il
Home Page: http://www.tau.ac.il/~razin

 

 


  Amos Keinan

 

Arie Lubin


 
 


 

Recent Books

Amos Keynan

Israeli Painters (Kol Nidrei)


1. 
Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows

(Princeton University Press, 2007)

(tex, pdf), Figures and Tables (All Chapters, Ch 10) (insert to ch 2, new chapter, new chapter in tex) Book Reviews ( book review1, book review2), Follow Ups (link, pdf)

Book Reviews:
K.P. Kimbrough, Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows by Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka. International Review of Economics and Finance 2009. http://www.arts.cornell.edu/econ/arazin/kimbroughFDIBOOKreview.pdf

Kathrin Russ, The New Theory of Foreign Direct Investment (Review of Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade by Jim Markusen and Foreign Direct Investment: A Theory of Aggregate Flows by Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka, for the journal International Finance, 2009 text

Laura Alfaro, Review of Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows, Journal of Economic Literature, March 2009, text.

David Hendler

2. Economic Policy in the International Economy: Essays in Honor of Assaf Razin 

Edited by Elhanan Helpman, Efraim Sadka   (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Part I. Financial Issues in Open Economies: Theory: 1. Crises: the next generation? Paul Krugman;(link) 2. Solutions to the ‘devaluation bias’: some preventive measures to defend fixed exchange rates against self-fulfilling attacks Chi-Wa Yuen; 3. Growth enhancing effects of bailout guarantees Aaron Tornell; 4. Risk and exchange rates Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth S. Rogoff; Part II. Financial Issues in Open Economies: Empirics: 5. Economic integration, industrial specialization, and the asymmetry of macroeconomic fluctuations Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sorenson and Oved Yosha; 6. Uncovered interest parity in crisis: the interest rate defense in the 1990s Robert P. Flood and Andrew K. Rose; 7. When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts? Carlos Arteta, Barry Eichengreen and Charles Wyplosz; 8. Sources of inflation in developing countries Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel; Part III. Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics: 9. Growth effects and the cost of business cycles Gadi Barlevy; 10. Explaining economic growth Yair Mundlak; Part IV. Public Economies: 11. Simulating fundamental tax reform in the United States David Altig, Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters and Jan Walliser; 12. The international macroeconomics of taxation and the case against European tax harmonization Enrique G. Mendoza; 13. Home bias in portfolios and taxation of asset income Roger H. Gordon and Vitor Gaspar; 14. Social dumping in the transformation process; Part V. Political Economy: 15. Do political institutions shape economic policy? Torsten Persson. 

The Conference (IMF Survey, April 16, 2001, page 129) 
 

3. The Decline of The Welfare State: Demography and Globalization-- MIT Press 2004 (Topics) Cover jacket  (pdf), (charts1, charts2), (tex) (New overview:pdf, tex) (New references: pdf, tex) (slide) Ch 8 (pdf, tex)

(Hebrew Slide, English Slide)

Book Download (link)

Book Reviews:
Ortega F ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION 14 (2): 413-415 2006
Kimbrough K JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 44 (1): 184-186 MAR 2006
Beltrametti L JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 87 (2): 195-197 MAR 2006
Hicks, Alex, Governance, An International Journal of Policy and Administration, Vol 20, Issue 2, pp. 359-71, 2007
Nicole Wolfe, Journal of World System Research, Vol 12, Num 2 ( December 2006)
Catia Montanga Economica, Volume 74, Issue 296, Novemember 2007

4. Social Security Reform : Financial and Political Issues in International Perspective
by Robin Brooks (Editor), Assaf Razin (Editor)
Cambridge University Press 2006

(introduction)
(Table of Contents)

Book Reviews:
SHAUN L. YOW, Journal of Pension Economics 6:01, 2007. http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPEF%2FPEF6_01%2FS1474747206282842a.pdf&code=262592bf0459172aff41ae708a1ef5e1

5. Labor, Capital and Finance: International Flows
by 
Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

Cambridge University Press 2002

Book download (link)

Book Reviews:
Wright MLJ JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 42 (2): 524-525 JUN 2004 (text)
Lane P WORLD ECONOMY 25 (10): 1525-1525 NOV 2002 (Word File)

Publisher's release ,JEL, Amazon.com
Introduction
Preface
Table of Contents
Chapter 1, (Figures:1,2
Chapter 6
Chapter 7, (Figures:,1,2)

text

Haim Kiewe

OTHER BOOKS

1. THE FULL TEXT OF THE 1978 OUT-OF-PRINT BOOK:

A Theory of International Trade Under Uncertainty

Academic Press 1978

by

Elhanan Helpman and Assaf Razin

Chapter 1: Introduction (pdf)

Chapter 2: Elements of the Deterministic Theory of International Trade (pdf)

Chapter 3: Elements of the Theory of Decision Making Under Uncertainty (pdf)

Chapter 4: A Critical Survey of the Literature (pdf)

Chapter 5: A Stock Market Economy (pdf)

Chapter 6: A Diagrammatic Exposition of the Stock Market Equilibrium and The Balance of Payments (pdf)

Chapter 7: The Basic Propositions of International Trade Revised (pdf)

Chapter 8: Commercial Policy (pdf)

Chapter 9: Gains from Trade (pdf)

Chapter 10: Efficient Intervention in Financial Markets (pdf)

Chapter 11: The International Stock Market "Tree" Model (pdf)

Appendices, References, and Index (pdf)

Book Reviews:
NEARY JP ECONOMICA 48 (189): 101-102 1981
POMERY J JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 88 (5): 1061-1064 1980
COES DV JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 10 (3): 445-448 1980
ANDERSON JE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 18 (1): 148-149 1980
HITIRIS T ECONOMIC JOURNAL 90 (357): 185-187 1980

Yosl Bergner

2. A Graduate International Economics Textbook

Fiscal Policies and Growth in the World Economy (MIT Press, 1996),
by Jacob Frenkel and Assaf Razin, with the cooperation of Chi-Wa Yuen. 

[First Edition, 1986; Second Edition, 1993, Third Edition, 1996. Preface, Contents,
The Mundell-Fleming Model:
Chapter 4, text
The Dynamics of the Current Account:
Chapter7, text.
Growth in the Global Economy:
Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15

Book download (link)

Book Reviews:

first edition (1987)
Anon JOURNAL OF MACROECONOMICS 19 (3): 630-630 SUM 1997
BRUCE N JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE 27 (4): 1704-1705 DEC 1989
MCCOY JPANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 504: 168-169 JUL 1989
LEHMENT H WELTWIRTSCHAFTLICHES ARCHIV-REVIEW OF WORLD ECONOMICS 125 (2): 416-417 1989
FLOYD JE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 26 (3-4): 392-394 MAY 1989
Second Edition (1992):
WRENLEWIS S WORLD ECONOMY 17 (5): 782-782 SEP 1994

3. Population Economics (MIT Press), with Efraim Sadka

Book download (link)

Book Reviews:
Wildasin DE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE 45 (4): 932-938 JUL 1997
Blanchet D JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATIONALOKONOMIE 64 (2): 221-223 1996
Jackson WA ECONOMIC JOURNAL 106 (439): 1812-1813 NOV 1996

4. International Taxation in an Integrated World
(MIT Press), with Jacob Frenkel and Efraim Sadka

text

Book download (link)

5. Current-Account Sustainability

by

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Assaf Razin
(Princeton Studies in International Finance, No 81) Paperback (November 1996)
Princeton University, International Finance; ISBN: 0881652539


Text

Earlier Literature: Understanding Interdependence: The Macroeconomics of the Open Economy, ed.)PB Kenen (ed.) 1995 , my Paper on the intertemporal approach to the current account)(book dowload link)

Later Literature: a. Currency Crises
PR Krugman (ed.) 2000, Book download (link)


6. The Economy of Modern Israel
(University of Chicago Press), with Efraim Sadka

text

Yochana Simon

EDITED BOOKS

1. Taxation in the Global Economy (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)
by Joel Slemrod (Editor), Assaf Razin (Editor) ( Paperback - February 1, 1992)
2. Capital Mobility : The Impact on Consumption, Investment and Growth
by Leonardo Leiderman (Editor), Assaf Razin (Editor) ( Cambridge University Press, 1994)

3. International Trade and Trade Policy
by Elhanan Helpman (Editor), Assaf Razin (Editor) ( MIT Press, 1991)

Book download (link)

4. Social Security Reform, Edited by Robin Brooks and Assaf Razin, CUP 2005

Preface, Table of contents, Introduction, authors

5. International Finance and Financial Crises : Essays in Honor of Robert P. Flood, Jr, Edited by Peter Isard, Assaf Razin, and Andy Rose , Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000)

6. Optimum Currency Areas: New Analytical and Policy Developments , Edited by Mario Blejer, Leonardo Leiderman and Assaf Razin, IMF, 1997; 
A pre-Nobel Award Festschrift for Robert Mundell's "optimum currency area" paper

Book download (link)

7. Taxation in the Global Economy

Joel Slemrod and Assaf Razin

University of Chicago Press 1990

Book Download (link)

 

My MIT Press Books (link



I.  A Graduate Course in International Macroeconomics: Integrating International Macroeconomics and Financial Crises  

Syllabus (doc, pdf)

 

Course Outline

•  The 2007-2009 Global Crisis: Historical Vi ew

The Great Depression vs. The Current Crisis ( ppt july 2009 )

 

(ii) Currency Crises and Financial Crises

First-Generation Currency Crises Fixed Exchange Rate With and Without Interest Parity,

Currency Crises Models with Endogenous central bank policies

Unique equilibrium ? Game  Theory , Banking/Debt Crises ( ppt ), notes: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 7 , 8

Balance-Sheet Crises Models 

The balance-sheet effect in financial crisis,

balance shhet effect in a closed economy

Evaluation of Exchange Rate Regimes in the presence of Liquidity Crises ( Econ Policy, currency pegs 2007 ) ( pdf ) ( word ) Exchange-Rate Regimes ( pdf )

 

Informational Cascades and Rational Bubbles ( link , Housing Bubble )

Bank Runs and Capital Flows: Flight for Quality

( link , slides ) Bank Runs, Capital Flow Reversals, Credit-Rating Crunches ( Figure Slides ( pdf , tex , slides )

 

(iii) Textbook Neo-Classical Open-economy Macroeconomics

1. Inflation 

Inflation and Money Growth, seigniorage,

2 Exchange Rate  

Flexible Exchange Rate

 

(iv) The Mundell-Fleming Model

Slides: The Mundell-Fleming Model 

 

 

(v) The New-Keynesian Macroeconomics  

 

The Flexible Price Benchmark

Aggregate Supply Under Price Rigidity

Equilibrium under Flexible and Rigid Prices

Utility-based loss function (Preliminaries )

Utility-Based loss function: Globalization

Loglinearization

Krugman on liquidity trap

Liquidity trap

The Liquidity Trap and Expectations, more

Fiscal Policy under liquidity trap

Geneal Equilibrium and Interest Rule ( doc )

Naive vs Quadratic LQoptimazation ( doc )

Linear Quadratic Approximation ( pdf )

Homeworks: 1 , 2 , 3

globalization and inflation ( Slides, pdf , word )

Jordi Gali's notes( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 )

(vi) The Dynamics of the current- and capital- account of the balance of payments 

(a) Consumption-Smoothing current account balance Dynamics ( PPT )

(b) Dynamics of Savings in a small open economy ,

(c) Current Account Stochastic Dynamics,

(d) Portfolio View of Capital Flows ( slides )

 

(Vii) Home works

Basics: 1 , 2 ,   3 ; New Keynesian Macro: Homeworks: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ( word ), 5 ( word ), 6 ( word ) , 7 ( word ); and More Home works.

The Pre 2007-2009 crisis course

Neo-Classical Open-economy Macroeconomics

1. Inflation 

Inflation and Money Growth, seigniorage,

2 Exchange Rate  

Flexible Exchange Rate

3. Current Account Dynamics 

(a) Consumption-Smoothing current account balance Dynamics (PPT)

(b) Dynamics of Savings in a small open economy,

(c) Current Account Stochastic Dynamics,

(d) Portfolio View

(e) Capital Flows (slides)

(ii) International Financial Crises

1. First-Generation Currency Crises Models 

Fixed Exchange Rate under Interest Parity, first-generation crisis

2. First-Generation Crises Models

Fixed Exchange Rate Without Interest Parity,

3. Second-Generation Crises Models

Unique equilibrium? Game  Theory, Banking/Debt Crises (ppt), notes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

4. Third-Generation Crises Models 

The balance-sheet effect in financial crisis,

balance shhet effect in a closed economy

(book review)

Financial Fragility (doc)

5. Evaluation of Exchange Rate Regimes (Econ Policy, currency pegs 2007)(pdf) (word) (Non linearity table) (presentation China) (Box 1: tex, pdf) (Box 2: tex, pdf) (Figure) (Revised Tables and Figures) (tex)(pdf) (slide1) (slide2) (Figures and Tables)

Exchange-Rate Regimes (pdf)

6. Informational Cascades and Rational Bubbles (link, Housing Bubble)

7. Bank Runs and Capital Flows 

Caballero-Krishnamurty: Flight for Quality (link, Burnside slides)

Bank Runs, Capital Flow Reversals, Credit-Rating Crunches (Figure

Slides (pdf, tex) Allen and Gale (slides)

7. A Stylized Example of Time Inconsistency

Inflation bias

(iii) The Traditional Model

1.  Mundell-Fleming Macroeconomics: 

The Mundell-Fleming Model 

(iv) New-Keynesian Macroeconomics 

The Flexible Price Benchmark

Aggregate Supply Under Price Rigidity

Equilibrium under Flexible and Rigid Prices

Utility-based loss function (Preliminaries)

Utility-Based loss function: Globalization

Loglinearization

Krugman on liquidity trap

Liquidity trap

The Liquidity Trap and Expectations, more

Fiscal Policy under liquidity trap

Geneal Equilibrium and Interest Rule (doc)

Naive vs Quadratic LQoptimazation (doc)

Linear Quadratic Approximation (pdf)

Homeworks: 1, 2, 3

globalization and inflation (Slides, pdf, word)

Jordi Gali's notes(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 )

Rut Schloss

Miscellaneous issues

1. Heckman Econometrics in FDI Book(pdf) (Probit and GMM)

2. Open Economy , Pass Through from Exchange Rates to Prices 

(ppt)

3. Output-Inflation Tradeoffs in the Open Economy: 

Phillips Curve

4. Bank Runs (pdf)

5. Devereux-Sutherland Capital flows model (slides)

6. Diagramatical Exposition (pdf)

Special Topics

1. International Economics Puzzles--the Obstfeld and Rogoff Approach
(slide)
(text)

2. Macroeconomic Moral Hazard (tex)

3.. Economic Growth in the Open Economy

4. Trade shares and international portfolio shares (link)

Homeworks: Tel Aviv 2005: 1, 2, 3, 4

4. Time-Varying Risk, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates
in General Equilibrium
(pdf)

Home works

Basics: 1, 2,   3; New Keynesian Macro: Homeworks: 1, 2, 3, Homework 4 (word), Homework 5 (word), Homework 6 (word), Homework 7 (word).