Trade and Tax Policy, Inflation and Exchange Rates

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Assaf Razin, Hans-Jürgen Vosgerau

      Pages 1-4

3. Inflation, Exchange Rates and Macro-Economic Ajustment in the Global Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Central Bank Independence, Political Influence and Macroeconomic Performance: A Survey of Recent Developments

      • Alex Cukierman

      Pages 7-37

   3. Fiscal Balance During Inflation, Disinflation, and Immigration: Policy Lessons

      • Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka

      Pages 38-76

   4. A New Breed of Exchange Rate Bands: Chile, Israel and Mexico

      • Elhanan Helpman, Leonardo Leiderman, Gil Bufman

      Pages 77-135

   5. The International Transmission of Economic Shocks in a Three-Country World under Mixed Exchange Rates

      • Nikolaus K. A. Läufer, Srinivasa Sundararajan

      Pages 136-168

4. Trade and Tax Policies in the Global Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Trade Wars and Trade Talks

      • Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman

      Pages 171-214

   3. Trade Liberalization, Privatization, and Restructuring Incentives

      • Arye L. Hillman, Manuel Hinds, Branko Milanovic, Heinrich W. Ursprung

      Pages 215-243

   4. The Internationalisation of Economic Activity and Tariff Policy

      • Albert G. Schweinberger, Hans-Jürgen Vosgerau

      Pages 244-262

   5. Indirect Taxation in an Integrated Europe: Is There a Way of Avoiding Trade Distortions without Sacrificing National Tax Autonomy?

      • Bernd Genser, Andreas Haufler, Peter Birch Sørensen

      Pages 263-294

5. Back Matter

   Pages 295-296

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Ass a f R a z i nand Hans-Jiirgen Vosgerau The eight chapters of this volume have been grouped into two parts. Part A of contains chapters which are mainly monetary in character, whereas real aspects international economics are treated in Part B. It goes without saying that this is only a device for structuring the field. In substance most chapters reveal the close connections between real and monetary aspects. Part A on "Inflation, Exchange Rates, and Macro-Economic Adjustment in the Global Economy" consists of four papers. In recent years, an inflation targeting framework for monetary policy has been adopted by New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Australia, and Spain (in chronological order). The use of inflation targeting can be viewed as a further step in the evolution of monetary policy techniques adopted by central banks. A common feature of the countries that have adopted inflation targets is the relatively poor inflation record over the last 30 years compared with other industrial countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Japan and the United States. Because of their relatively good inflation record, this latter group of countries has not explicitly adopted inflation targeting. With, or without, explicit inflation targeting the monetary policy credibility hinges on the independence of the central bank. Alex Cukierman addresses the issue of central bank independence by surveying alternative ways to characterize independence.

• Außenhandelstheorie
• Besteuerung
• Import
• Inflation
• Wechselkurse
• Zollpolitik
• exchange rates
• tariff policy
• taxation
• trade theory

• The Eitan Berglas School of Economics Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Assaf Razin

• Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

  Hans-Jürgen Vosgerau

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