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Author:Stokey, Nancy L. 

Discussion Paper
NAFTA and Mexican development

Using a calibrated growth model, the dynamic effects of NAFTA on Mexican development are studied. Two scenarios are analyzed. In the first, NAFTA is assumed to stimulate inflows of physical capital into Mexico. These inflows reduce the interest rate and raise the wage rates for both skilled and unskilled labor. The skilled wage rises more sharply, however, increasing the skill premium and rapidly accelerating the accumulation of human capital. In the second scenario, NAFTA is assumed to have the effect of fully integrating Mexico with the U.S. and Canada. Integration also reduces the interest ...
Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics , Paper 108

Discussion Paper
A note on dynamic programming with homogeneous functions

This note shows that basic theorems of dynamic programming hold when the return function is homogeneous of degree theta <= 1.
Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics , Paper 109

Discussion Paper
Liquidity crises

Economic Policy Paper , Paper 11-3

Report
Giving aid effectively

University of Chicago economist and former Minneapolis Fed adviser Nancy Stokey on the goals and methods of the Copenhagen Consensus, in which 8 prominent economists used benefit/cost analysis to evaluate and prioritize projects to address serious global problems. (Annual Report essay)
Annual Report , Volume 20 , Issue May , Pages 4-28

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