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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...

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Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe

Barajas, Adolfo - 2013

This paper introduces the concept of the financial possibility frontier as a constrained optimum level of financial development to gauge the relative performance of financial systems across the globe. This frontier takes into account structural country characteristics, institutional, and...

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How Do Changing U.S. Interest Rates Affect Banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries?

Adedeji, Olumuyiwa - 2020

Given their pegged exchange rate regimes, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries usually adjust their policy rates to match shifting U.S. monetary policy. This raises the important question of how changes in U.S. monetary policy affect banks in the GCC. We use bank-level panel data, exploiting...

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Bank Ownership : Trends and Implications

Cull, Robert - 2017

competition in host banking sectors, and help stabilize credit when host countries face idiosyncratic shocks. But there are …

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Borrowing Costs and the Role of Multilateral Development Banks : Evidence from Cross-Border Syndicated Bank Lending

Gurara, Daniel - 2019

Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for infrastructure financing. This paper looks at the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) on the terms of syndicated loan deals, focusing on loan pricing. The results...

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Financial Inclusion and Bank Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mengistu, Azanaw - 2019

In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and financial soundness, to study the effect on the adoption of...

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Drivers of Cross-Border Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mathieu, Paul - 2019

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …) and discusses some of the determinants of this investment. Using a gravity model relating the annual value of a banking …-border banking is in part driven by a search for yield, diversification, and expansion for strategic reasons …

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Capital Flows : The Role of Bank and Nonbank Balance Sheets

Hashimoto, Yuko - 2019

This paper assesses the role of bank and nonbank financial institutions' balance sheet foreign exposures and risk management practices in driving capital flow responses to global risk. Using a unique and previously unexplored dataset on domestic and cross border balance sheet positions of...

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Banks' Holdings of Government Securities and Credit to the Private Sector in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Bouis, Romain - 2019

lower credit growth to the private sector and with a higher return on assets of the banking sector. Analysis suggests that …

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Banks, Government Bonds, and Default : What Do the Data Say?

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2014

theories of the sovereign default-banking crisis nexus …

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