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. The basic framework considers an economy with a large informal production sector and a heterogeneous work force. The labor … improves competitiveness, and expands the formal sector at the expense of the informal sector. Hence, in a two-sector economy …
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This case study compares the importance of prevailing market factors against that of COVID-19 dynamics and policy responses in explaining the evolution of Eurozone (EZ) sovereign spreads during the first half of 2020. Focusing on daily Eurozone CDS spreads, we adopt a multi-stage econometric...
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poor-health mortalities associated with economic growth. (ii) Fiscal adjustments led to a more inclusive economy, lowered …
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We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...
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We investigate the implications of extra-normal government spending under the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial bank lending growth between 2019Q4 and 2020Q4 in a large sample of over 3000 banks from 71 countries. We control for pre-pandemic structural factors, bank characteristics and government...
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We outline two divergent exit strategies of the U.S. from the post COVID-19 debt-overhang, and analyze their implications on Emerging Markets and global stability. The first strategy is the U.S. aiming at returning to the 2019, pre-COVID mode of loose fiscal policy and accommodating monetary...
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The end of the great moderation has profound implications on the assessment of fiscal sustainability. The pertinent issue goes beyond the obvious increase in the stock of public debt/GDP induced by the global recession, to include the neglected perspective that the vulnerabilities associated...
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constant in the economy with or without a binding constraint on tax revenues as a share of GDP - current non-durable public … borrowing to finance the accumulation of public capital goods may allow the economy to reach a long-run optimal growth path …
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"We examine how financial expansion and contraction cycles affect the broader economy through their impact on 8 real …
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This paper compares fiscal cyclicality across advanced and developing countries, geographic regions as well as income levels over 1960-2016 period, then identifies factors that explain countries' government spending and tax-policy cyclicality. Public debt/tax base ratio provides a more robust...
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