Are windfalls a curse? A non-representative agent model of the current account

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-112

  Tornell, Aaron ^a   Lane, Philip R ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dynamic games; Political economy; Resource booms; Terms of trade shocks

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC SHOCK; NATIONAL DEBT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; TERMS OF TRADE; THEORY; WINDFALLS;

EID: 0031869762     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(97)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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