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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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Financial crises and liberalization : progress or reversals?
Saka, Orkun; Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei; … - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...
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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
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The labor market consequences of adverse financial shocks
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. - 2012
themselves in a position in which their liquidity is suddenly called back by the lender. This has direct consequences on a firm … existing jobs. We argue that with well-developed capital markets, firms will have an incentive to rely more on liquidity, and … in normal times deep capital markets lead to tight labor markets. After an adverse liquidity shock, firms that rely much …
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Optimal price indices for targeting inflation under incomplete markets
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
inflation ; financial frictions ; liquidity constraints …
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What measure of inflation should a developing country central bank target?
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained...
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Committee decision-making under the threat of leaks
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hahn, Volker - 2020
Leaks are pervasive in politics. Hence, many committees that nominally operate under secrecy de facto operate under the threat that information might be passed on to outsiders. We study theoretically and experimentally how this possibility affects the behavior of committee members and the...
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Design choices for central bank digital currency: policy and technical considerations
Allen, Sarah; Capkun, Srdjan; Eyal, Ittay; Fanti, Giulia; … - 2020
Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs …
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The gender promotion gap : evidence from central banking
Hospido, Laura; Laeven, Luc; Lamo, Ana - 2019
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage gap emerges between men and women within a few...
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