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Razin, Assaf was born on February 28, 1941, in Afula, Israel. Son of Mordechai and Dora Razin.
( The ongoing process of increased integration of nationa...)
The ongoing process of increased integration of national economies, culminating in the single European market of 1992, still leaves as virtually separate the national fiscal systems. In this book international economists Jacob Frenkel and Assaf Razin join forces with public finance economist Efraim-Sadka to provide a new treatment of international taxation, one that focuses on the interactions between fiscal policies of sovereign nations and the magnitude and directions of international capital and goods flow in an integrated world economy. They unfold a lucid and clear analysis of the implications of tax competition, tax harmonization, capital flight, external imbalances, and the terms of trade for the design of efficient national tax systems. The book extends concepts developed in Frenkel and Razin's Fiscal Policies and the World Economy and includes a theory of taxation in an open world economy.International Taxation in an Integrated World presents the stylized facts and concepts and outlines the main issues of international taxation and the implications for the international movements of goods and capital. It reviews the principles of international taxation and international macroeconomics, analyzes the international transmission of various tax and budget policies, and provides a rigorous analysis of optimal open economy tax policy in an integrated world economy. Special emphasis is placed on the interdependence between direct and indirect taxes and on the international allocation of saving, investment, and production.Jacob A. Frenkel is Director of Research and Economic Counselor at the International Monetary Fund. Assaf Razin is Daniel Ross Professor of International Economics at Tel Aviv University. Both are Research Associates at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Efraim Sadka is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
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Covering a full array of topics in open economy macro and public economics, Fiscal Policies and Growth in the World Economy has been thoroughly revised and extended. The added material in this new edition includes stochastic rational-expectations extensions of the Mundell-Fleming model, the development of a dynamic-optimizing approach of the trade balance, and an entirely new part on issues of international economic convergence, which also contains a comprehensive policy overview.Other chapters have been updated or reorganized, and there is a brief guide to solving typical dynamic macro problems along with a printout of software suitable for numerical simulations. A companion diskette containing solutions in dynamic macro problems and some sample programs is available in GAUSS for IBM. The exercises and solutions manual by Krueger, Ostry, and Yuen has also been updated and extended.Fiscal Policies and Growth in the World Economy has been used successfully in graduate and senior undergraduate courses in international economics and public finance. The objective of this new edition remains the same as before: to treat the major topics in macro and public economics using both traditional and modern approaches. The traditional approach is first explained, from the simple income-expenditure model to the more advanced stochastic Mundell-Fleming model. The modern intertemporal approach is then presented, starting with the simple two-period model and extending it to a full-fledged dynamic model. Other sections review recent developments in the world economy; government spending, budget deficits, and differences across international taxation; and economic growth in the world economy, especially the convergence of income and growth levels across countries.
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Razin, Assaf was born on February 28, 1941, in Afula, Israel. Son of Mordechai and Dora Razin.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1969.
Professor economics Tel Aviv University, since 1970, Simonsen chair public economics, since 2001. Friedman chair international economics Cornell University, since 2001. Visiting professor economics University California, Berkeley, 1979, University Stockholm, 1980, 81, 82, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1981, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1984, University Chicago, 1986, 91, 93, 95, 97, Yale University, 1992, Harvard University, 1998, Stanford University, since 1999.
Chairman Council Economic Advice, State of Israel, Jerusalem, 1979. Consultant World Bank, Washington, since 1987, International Monetary Fund, since 1988. Research associate National Bureau Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Research fellow Center for Economic Policy Research, London, since 1990.
( The ongoing process of increased integration of nationa...)
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( Covering a full array of topics in open economy macro a...)
Married Shula Hachlili, May 20, 1963. Children: Ofer (deceased), RonnY, Einat.