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The global economy is losing steam. After a weak start in the beginning of this year, world production accelerated … 2020 world output is expected to rise by 3.4 percent. Despite the gradual global economic slowdown, capacity utilization in …
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World economic growth is moderating accompanied by a broad-based deterioration in economic sentiment. Following a … development. We expect the global economy to expand at a rate of 3.7 percent this year, followed by 3.4 next year. This is a … to expect world production to increase by 3.4 percent. The escalation of trade conflicts, the possibility of a “hard …
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World economic growth has picked up from the sluggish pace registered at the start of the year. We expect global growth …
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Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. We assemble the first comprehensive long-run dataset of official...
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This paper argues that the globalization of securities markets may promote contagion among investors by weakening incentives for gathering costly country-specific information and by strengthening incentives for imitating arbitrary market portfolios. In the presence of short-selling constraints,...
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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 Covid-19 pandemic is a major test for governments around the world. We study the political consequences of (mis …
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financial institutions and asset markets. Using an open-economy model where financial intermediaries play a central role, we …
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, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …
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Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
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