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Essays On Fiscal Policies In Open Economies, Ahiteme Nicodeme Houndonougbo
Essays On Fiscal Policies In Open Economies, Ahiteme Nicodeme Houndonougbo
Doctoral Dissertations
Investigating various fiscal policy issues in the context of an open economy, this dissertation consists of three essays.
The first essay addresses the question of the volatility of foreign aid and its impact on resource-constrained developing economies. A small open-economy business cycle model is developed that accounts for the effect of external shocks specific to developing economies. The model produces business cycle patterns consistent with the data and key stylized facts. The model is calibrated to reflect the structural empirical regularities of an aid-dependent developing country. The parameters of the exogenous stochastic shocks are estimated using Bayesian methods and 50 …