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Foreign Banks : Trends, Impact and Financial Stability

Claessens, Stijn - 2012

Using a new, comprehensive database on bank ownership, identifying also the home country of foreign banks, for 137 countries over the period 1995-2009, this paper provides an overview of foreign bank activity and its impact of financial development and stability. We document substantial...

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Impact of Foreign Banks

Claessens, Stijn - 2013

This paper provides a critical assessment of the costs and benefits of foreign bank ownership. It reviews the extensive literature on the impact of foreign banks and uses a unique database on bank ownership, covering 129 countries, to (re-)examine a number of the issues discussed. It documents...

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The Globalization of Refugee Flows

Devictor, Xavier - 2020

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii)...

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Deposit Insurance Database

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper provides a comprehensive, global database of deposit insurance arrangements as of 2013. The authors extend their earlier dataset by including recent adopters of deposit insurance and information on the use of government guarantees on banks' assets and liabilities, including during the...

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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

Do, Quy-Toan - 2017

This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage...

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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

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Determinants of Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis

Gawande, Kishore - 2017

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

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Financial Sector Ups and Downs and the Real Sector : Big Hindrance, Little Help

Aizenman, Joshua - 2017

This paper examines how financial expansion and contraction cycles affect the broader economy through their impact on …

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Proposals for WTO Reform : A Synthesis and Assessment

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … internal and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others -- such …

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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …

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