This paper presents high-level summary technical assistance report on Jordan's Retail Central Bank Digital Currency Exploration (rCBDC). Retail payment systems in Jordan are well integrated, enabling customers to make transactions between banks and PSPs through JoMoPay and CliQ. The cross-border...

Japan's Flow of Funds Accounts Statistics (J-FFA) is a comprehensive record of developments in financial assets and liabilities in major economic sectors. The main features of the J-FFA can be summarized as follows. First, the J-FFA shows both financial transactions and the corresponding...

This paper examines whether regulation that is more conducive to competitive and efficient financial systems has a significant positive impact on sectoral output and productivity growth in a sample of 25 OECD countries. More specifically, following a methodology used by Rajan and Zingales...

This paper strives to appraise -- in terms of contributions to economic development -- Japan's postwar financial system, a system that has been exposed to a variety of environmental changes over time including globalization. Having been designed to foster growth, the postwar financial system did...

The purpose of this paper is to examine narrow banking proposals. First, we survey the narrow banking proposals presented in the United States and Japan, and categorize them by means of two standards: (1) whether safe assets that a narrow bank is allowed to hold are limited to short-term assets,...

The agricultural sector in Canada is relatively large, compared to those in most other G7 countries. In recent years, the federal and provincial governments have undertaken a number of sectoral reforms to meet the competitiveness and environmental challenges that it faces. The federal government...