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We describe the patterns of international capital flows in the period 1970 - 2000. We then examine the determinants of capital flows and capital flows volatility during this period. We find that institutional quality is an important determinant of capital flows. Historical determinants of...
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We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …
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We investigate the implications of extra-normal government spending under the COVID-19 pandemic for commercial bank lending growth between 2019Q4 and 2020Q4 in a large sample of over 3000 banks from 71 countries. We control for pre-pandemic structural factors, bank characteristics and government...
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Quality of public institutions has been recognized as a crucial determinant of macroeconomic outcomes. We propose that a country's intrinsic level of openness (due to population size, geography, or exogenous trade opportunities) affects its incentives in investing in better institutions. We...
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Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...
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the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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We examine the empirical role of different explanations for the lack of flows of capital from rich to poor countries the "Lucas Paradox." The theoretical explanations include differences in fundamentals across countries and capital market imperfections. We show that during 1970-2000 low...
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Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and …
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countries, in particular Latin America, we find that well over 50% of jobs are at risk in the initial stages of the crisis …. Because informal jobs and those not fit for telework are at higher risk, this number goes down to 33% if the US employment … distribution is imposed on the Colombian data. As the crisis deepens, the risk of unemployment grows. However, informality rebounds …
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announcements, rather than traditional determinants like fiscal space and systematic risk, drove CDS adjustment over this period … mitigate the short-run fear of the worst economic outcomes, temporarily pushing away concerns over fiscal risk …
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