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Growth and Capital Flows with Risky Entrepreneurship
Sandri, Damiano - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper shows that the behavior of entrepreneurs facing incomplete financial markets and risky investment can … uninsurable risk of losing invested capital forces entrepreneurs to rely on self-financing, so that when business opportunities … open up entrepreneurs increase saving to finance the investment that produces growth. The key insight is that saving has to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519499
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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
entrepreneurs innovate—in the Schumpeterian sense—in order to bring about structural changes in the economy. The conclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825901
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Show Me the Money; Access to Finance for Small Borrowers in Canada
Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper examines access to business finance by Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to housing finance by Canadian households (particularly non-prime borrowers) against the background of a fairly concentrated and protected banking industry. It finds access broadly adequate...
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Sudden Stops, Output Drops, and Credit Collapses
Dagher, Jihad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper proposes a tractable Sudden Stop model to explain the main patterns in firm level data in a sample of Southeast Asian firms during the Asian crisis. The model, which features trend shocks and financial frictions, is able to generate the main patterns observed in the sample during and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646413
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Structural Reforms and Economic Performance in Advanced and Developing Countries
Spilimbergo, Antonio; Prati, Alessandro; Ostry, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This volume examines the impact on economic performance of structural policies-policies that increase the role of market forces and competition in the economy, while maintaining appropriate regulatory frameworks. The results reflect a new dataset covering reforms of domestic product markets,...
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External Finance, Sudden Stops, and Financial Crisis; What is Different This Time?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
This paper develops a two-country DSGE model to investigate the transmission of a global financial crisis to a small open economy. We find that economies hit by a sudden stop arising from financial distress in the global economy are likely to face a more prolonged crisis than sudden stop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560432
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Managing Financial Crises; The Experience in East Asia
Lane, Timothy D.; Hamann, A. Javier; Schulze-Gattas, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 was one of the most dramatic economic events of recent times, which raised many questions regarding the appropriate policy response to financial crises. This paper reviews the experience of this crisis, focusing on the overall strategy of crisis management...
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Using Credit Ratings for Capital Requirementson Lending to Emerging Market Economies; Possible Impact of a New Basel Accord
Mulder, Christian B.; Monfort, Brieuc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed linking capital requirements for bank loans to ratings by commercial credit rating agencies. Estimates for 20 emerging market economies show that sovereign ratings react procyclically to crisis indicators. Ratings deteriorate if the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264127
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Aftermath of Banking Crises; Effectson Real and Monetary Variables
Gupta, Poonam - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
In this paper a simple optimizing model is developed to analyze the implications of a banking crisis. Banks are incorporated by assuming that they intermediate funds between firms and households. It is shown that when depositors perceive the quality of deposits to have deteriorated, they switch...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769311
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What’S the Damage? Medium-Term Output Dynamics After Banking Crises
Abiad, Abdul; Brooks, Petya Koeva; Tytell, Irina; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper investigates the medium-term behavior of output following banking crises, and its association with pre- and post-crisis conditions and policies. We find that output tends to be depressed substantially following banking crises, with no rebound to the precrisis trend. However, growth...
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