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On Endogenous Risk, the Amplification Effects of Financial Systems and Macro Prudential Policies
Powell, Andrew; Majnoni, Giovanni - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The recent global financial crisis has put the spotlight on macro-prudential policies to protect firms and households from problems emanating from the financial sector. This paper proposes an analytical framework that combines exogenous and endogenous risks, the latter seen as stemming from...
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Elementos de sostenibilidad fiscal en países ricos en hidrocarburos: El caso de Bolivia
Zambrano, Omar; Aguilera-Lizarazu, Gabriela - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Este trabajo analiza el desempeño fiscal de Bolivia a la luz de la expansión y posterior contracción de los precios internacionales de los hidrocarburos entre 2005 y 2009. Se evalúa dicho desempeño desde el punto de vista de la posición estructural de la economía, es decir, descontando...
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¿Hay un sesgo anti-laboral en los impuestos en América Latina?
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Deisy - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Los impuestos a la nómina junto con los salarios mínimos han producido un notable encarecimiento de los costos laborales en América Latina desde los noventa. Puesto que, simultáneamente, las tasas de tributación de las empresas se han reducido, esta nota analiza si, como resultado, hay un...
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Banking Crises and Financial Integration
Caballero, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
used to proxy for the de facto integration of the average bank in a country. The paper fits a count data model in the cross …-section for the period 1980- 2007 and finds that the level of integration of the average bank is a robust determinant of the … of integration as measured by betweenness of the average bank has a negative effect on the incidence of crises. That is …
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Do Surges in International Capital Inflows Influence the Likelihood of Banking Crises? Cross-Country Evidence on Bonanzas in Capital Inflows and Bonanza-Boom- Bust Cycles
Caballero, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper asks whether bonanzas (surges) in net capital inflows increase the probability of banking crises and whether this is necessarily through a lending boom mechanism. A fixed effects regression analysis indicates that a baseline bonanza, identified as a surge of one standard deviation...
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Capital Inflow Surges in Emerging Economies: How Worried Should LAC Be?
Powell, Andrew; Tavella, Pilar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper analyzes capital inflow surges in emerging economies from 1980 to 2005. Estimated probit models are used, which discriminate well between surges associated with banking crises or recessions, and those surges that end without such events. The results indicate that the composition of...
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Coping with Financial Crises: Latin American Answers to European Questions
Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Europe faces challenges reminiscent of Latin American financial crises. The failure of recent liquidity support to normalize the situation in Europe suggests the need to refocus the policy debate on fundamentals: structural reform for growth and, where needed, restructuring to resolve banking...
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Productive Development Policies in Trinidad and Tobago: A Critical Review
Moya, Ramiro; Mohammed, Anne-Marie; Sookram, Sandra - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Even as Trinidad and Tobago seeks productive diversification away from the energy sector, the process underlying the …
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