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Crypto, corruption, and capital controls : cross-country correlations

Alnasaa, Marwa; Georgiev, Nikolaj; Honda, Jiro; … - 2022

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Shipping costs and inflation

Carrière-Swallow, Yan; Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; … - 2022

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Social versus individual work preferences : implications for optimal income taxation

An, Zhiyong; Coady, David P. - 2022

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Supply chains and port congestion around the world

Komaromi, Andras; Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Liu, Yang - 2022

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The stealth erosion of dollar dominance : active diversifiers and the rise of nontraditional reserve currencies

Arslanalp, Serkan; Eichengreen, Barry; Simpson-Bell, Chima - 2022

We document a decline in the dollar share of international reserves since the turn of the century. This decline reflects active portfolio diversification by central bank reserve managers; it is not a byproduct of changes in exchange rates and interest rates, of reserve accumulation by a small...

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The availability, methodological soundness, and scope of consumer price statistics in 2020

Guerreiro, Vanda; Baer, Andrew L.; Silungwe, Anthony - 2022

This paper analyzes the availability, methodological soundness, and scope of Consumer Price statistics in IMF member and non-member countries in 2020. Consumer price statistics are instrumental in the development of monetary policy and in monitoring economic developments. They also often have...

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Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa’s fragile states : evidence from panel estimations

Maino, Rodolfo; Emrullahu, Drilona - 2022

Fragile states in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face challenges to respond to the effects of climate shocks and rising temperatures. Fragility is linked to structural weaknesses, government failure, and lack of institutional basic functions. Against this setup, climate change could add to risks. A...

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Digitalization and tax compliance spillovers : evidence from a VAT e-invoicing reform in Peru

Bellon, Matthieu; Chang, Jillie; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2022

Our study uses administrative data on firm-to-firm transactions and quasi- experimental variation in the rollout of electronic invoicing reforms in Peru to study the diffusion of e-invoicing through firm networks and its effect on tax compliance. We find that voluntary e-invoicing adoption is...

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The financial performance and macrofinancial implications of large state-owned enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wezel, Torsten; Carvalho, Naly - 2022

Using a newly-compiled dataset of state-owned enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa, we present aggregate information about profitability, liquidity and leverage. We find that 40 percent of the close to 300 surveyed SOEs are unprofitable, while larger firms also tend to be illiquid and...

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Estimating the employment and GDP multiplier of emergency cash transfers in Brazil

Cunha, Daniel; Pereira, Joana; Perrelli, Roberto; … - 2022

We estimate the subnational employment and GDP multiplier of Brazil's 2020 federal cash transfers to vulnerable households. Using two-stage least squares regressions we estimate a formal employment multiplier and then apply an analytical transformation to recover an implied GDP multiplier in the...

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