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How to entrench hard-won gains, increase resilience to shocks, and improve growth performance to reduce poverty? As Central America moves forward in regaining macroeconomic stability, these are the challenges. This study analyzes Central America’s real, fiscal, monetary, and financial...
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The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because...
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Agency problems within the firm are a significant hindrance to efficiency. We propose trust between coworkers as a superior alternative to the standard tools used to mitigate agency problems: increased monitoring and incentive-based pay. We show how trust induces employees to work harder,...
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This Selected Issues paper for the Russian Federation discusses existing empirical efforts to measure the determinants of cross-country financial integration. Empirical studies that have adopted the gravity-model framework have found that it is generally successful in explaining bilateral...
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The causes of the global financial crisis were multi-faceted but revealed still unresolved weaknesses in national and international financial oversight and resolution frameworks. In particular, many governments in the crisis-hit countries had to provide unprecedented levels of support to contain...
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Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and … value is sevenfold that of an increase. Moreover, the downward bias in systemic risk from ignoring this asymmetric pattern … asymmetric model also produces much better estimates and fitting, and thus improves the capacity to monitor systemic risk. Our …
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We investigate the complex interactions between credit constraints, political instability, and capital accumulation using a novel approach based on Kiyotaki and Moore’s (1997) theoretical framework. Drawing on a unique firm-level data set from Middle-East and North Africa (MENA),...
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-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions …-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank …-ante. And a bank may use trading for risk-shifting. Financial development augments the scalability of trading, which initially …
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liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare …
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