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On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347019
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Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness
Gehring, Kai - 2018
IMF programs are often considered to carry a “stigma” that triggers adverse market reactions. We show that such a negative IMF effect disappears when accounting for endogenous selection into programs. To proxy for a country's access to financial markets, we use credit ratings and investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920590
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Slavery, Corruption, and Institutions
Rauscher, Michael - 2019
We develop a model where firms profit from coercing workers into employment under conditions violating national law and international conventions and where bureaucrats benefit from accepting bribes from detected perpetrators. Firms and bureaucrats are heterogeneous. Employers differ in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859047
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The Role of Institutions and Immigrant Networks in Firms’ Offshoring Decisions
Moriconi, Simone - 2019
The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms’ potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892039
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Institutions and Offshoring Decision
Nicolini, Marcella - 2021
Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316890
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What Drives Financial Development? A Meta-Regression Analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830987
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The Political Economy of the G20 Agenda on Financial Regulation
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2020
The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector. The study finds that the size of the banking sector and the presence of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are positively associated with a stronger implementation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824593
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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833734
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Vehicle Currency Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Chen, Natalie - 2019
Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive …, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter’s currency. We then study … the relationship between invoicing currency choices and the response of import prices to exchange rate changes. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867016
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Has the Euro Affected the Choice of Invoicing Currency?
Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2013
We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our … approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice depends on the characteristics of both the … currency and the country. We use unique quarterly panel data of Norwegian imports from OECD countries for the 1996-2006 period …
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