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Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...
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This paper studies the impact of investor composition on the sovereign debt market and the implied funding costs to borrowers. We construct an aggregate data set of sovereign debt holdings by foreign and domestic bank, non-bank private, and official investors for 95 countries over twenty years....
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The risk sensitivity of international capital flow pressures is explored using a new Exchange Market Pressure index … masked by foreign exchange interventions and policy rate adjustments. The sensitivity of capital flow pressures to risk … between normal time and extreme stress events. Across countries, risk sensitivities and safe haven status are associated with …
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We analyze a large number of industry- and company-level filings of global institutional investors to provide the first comprehensive estimate of foreign investors' U.S. dollar (USD) security holdings and currency hedging practices. We document four stylized facts. First, driven by increasing...
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investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment …. By constructing a global city data set that covers the years 2012 to 2018, we test several flood risk adaptation …Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by …
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This paper sets out essential facts about the economic case for water-related investment and the financing gap. It … charts a series of actions to better value water and ultimately facilitate investment at a scale commensurate with the …
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Annotation, By proposing questions in ten policy areas, the Policy Framework for Investment in Agriculture supports … host countries in evaluating and designing policies to mobilise private investment in agriculture and maximise its positive … contribution to economic growth and sustainable development. It draws on the Policy Framework for Investment developed at the OECD …
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