Showing 1 - 10 of 90
This paper examines oversight issues that underlie the potential growth and risks in mobile payments. International … experience suggests that financial authorities can develop effective oversight frameworks for new payment methods to safeguard … prevent financial integrity risks; (iii) fund safeguarding measures such as insurance, similar guarantee schemes, or â …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123820
This paper presents a technical note on Mexico’s Financial Sector Assessment Program update. The Mexican experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244170
This Selected Issues paper investigates the possible contribution of activation strategies—in a broad sense—to improve employment rates in Finland. It summarizes recent labor market developments in Finland, and investigates respectively the limitation of current unemployment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244764
to positive, albeit low, levels in the medium term, there are lingering risks on the policy front that could derail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244772
investment in infrastructure. The current fiscal stance is unsustainable. To address risks of large arrears accumulations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245052
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245351
of gross monthly wages. It analyzes that a comparatively high share of Austria’s family benefits is monetary rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245579
. It outlines what is unique about the Canadian experience and sheds light on policies and philosophies that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245903
This paper examines the effect of unionization on welfare and trade policy in a model of duopolists competing in a third market. It shows that the traditional result that the presence of a union necessitates a stronger strategic trade policy to reach the optimal level of welfare depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248209
This paper reviews several methods to measure wage flexibility, and their suitability for evaluating the extent of such flexibility during times of structural change, when wage distributions and wage curves can be particularly volatile. The paper uses nonparametric estimation to capture possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248228