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Unstash the Cash! Corporate Governance Reform in Japan

Aoyagi, Chie - 2014

Japan's high corporate savings might be holding back growth. We focus on the causes and consequences of the current … corporate behavior and suggest options for reform. In particular, Japan's weak corporate governance - as measured by available … comprehensive corporate governance reform should be a key component of Japan's growth strategy …

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Foreign Help Wanted : Easing Japan's Labor Shortages

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2015

Data and anecdotal evidence suggest that Japan is suffering from labor shortages, which are large in an international … focuses on policy options to ease Japan's labor shortages. In particular, we focus on possible measures to increase reliance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015603

Spillovers from Japan's Unconventional Monetary Policy to Emerging Asia : A Global VAR Approach

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2016

We use a Global VAR model to study spillovers from the Bank of Japan's quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) on …

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Fiscal Devaluation in a Monetary Union

Engler, Philipp - 2014

Using a DSGE model calibrated to the euro area, we analyze the international effects of afiscal devaluation (FD) implemented as a revenue-neutral shift from employer's socialcontributions to the Value Added Tax. We find that a FD in 'Southern European countries' has a strong positive effect on...

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The Distributional Effects of Government Spending Shocks in Developing Economies

Furceri, Davide - 2018

We construct unanticipated government spending shocks for 103 developing countries from 1990 to 2015 and study their effects on income distribution. We find that unanticipated fiscal consolidations lead to a long-lasting increase in income inequality, while fiscal expansions lower inequality....

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The International Effects of Government Spending Composition

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2021

This paper helps resolve a paradox in the literature, noticed by Alesina and Perotti (1995), which is that, although government employment is an important component of public spending, the debate on the effects of fiscal policy focuses almost exclusively on shocks to non-wage government...

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International Fiscal-Financial Spillovers : The Effect of Fiscal Shocks on Cross-Border Bank Lending

Choi, Sangyup - 2019

This paper sheds new light on the degree of international fiscal-financial spillovers by investigating the effect of domestic fiscal policies on cross-border bank lending. By estimating the dynamic response of U.S. cross-border bank lending towards the 45 recipient countries to exogenous...

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Fiscal Multipliers and Informality

Colombo, Emilio; Furceri, Davide; Pizzuto, Pietro; … - 2022

This paper investigates the role of informality in affecting the magnitude of the fiscal multiplier in a panel of 141 countries, using the local projections method. We find a strong negative relationship between the degree of informality and the size of the fiscal multiplier. This result holds...

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The Rise in Inequality after Pandemics : Can Fiscal Support Play a Mitigating Role?

Furceri, Davide; Loungani, Prakash; Ostry, Jonathan D.; … - 2022

Major epidemics of the last two decades (SARS, H1N1, MERS, Ebola and Zika) have been followed by increases in inequality (Furceri, Loungani, Ostry and Pizzuto, 2020). In this paper, we show that the extent of fiscal consolidation in the years following the onset of these pandemics has played an...

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Unemployment and Labor Market Issues in Algeria

Furceri, Davide - 2012

The aim of this paper is to analyze unemployment and labor market developments in Algeria and assess the factors that may hamper employment creation. The results of the paper suggest that the relative low output-employment elasticities and rigid labor market are the main factors behind the still...

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