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Urban resilience and social security uptake : New Zealand evidence from the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Role reversal in global finance

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2011

I document that emerging markets have cast off their "original sin" their external liabilities are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct investment and portfolio equity. Their external assets are increasingly concentrated in foreign exchange...

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India's approach to capital account liberalization

Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2009

In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on … financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated path to capital account opening, which has … the key challenge now facing India's policymakers on this front. -- India ; international financial integration ; capital …

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Global macro-financial cycles and spillovers

Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; … - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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The determinants of China's international portfolio equity allocations

Agarwal, Isha; Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2020

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows has shifted from accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by the central bank to nonofficial outflows. Unlocking the enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant...

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Capital market integration and gender inequality

Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - 2018

induces empirically observed declines in fertility rates throughout the world. …

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Financial globalization and economic policies

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - 2009

We review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developing economies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help...

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....

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Private information, human capital, and optimal “home bias” in financial markets

Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011

By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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