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Cyber Risk Surveillance : A Case Study of Singapore

Goh, Joseph - 2020

illustrates these techniques by applying them to Singapore. As an advanced economy with a complex financial system and rapid … adoption of fintech, Singapore serves as a good case study. We place our results in the context of recent cybersecurity …

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Singapore's Export Elasticities : A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity

Arbatli, Elif C. - 2016

Singapore is one of the world's most open economies, with the size of its trade reaching about 350 percent of its GDP …. With the rise of highly diversified cross-border production networks, Singapore has come to play an integral role in the …, using disaggregate industry/product level trade data, we revisit Singapore's export elasticities and find that growing …

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Experiences with Macroprudential Policy — Five Case Studies

Darbar, Salim M. - 2015

Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden). The case studies describe the institutional framework, its evolution, the use of …

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Did Output Recover from the Asian Crisis?

Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta C. - 2005

This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...

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Do Fiscal Rules Foster Fiscal Discipline in Resource-Rich Countries?

Apeti, Ablam Estel; Basdevant, Olivier; Salins, Veronique - 2023

This paper investigates the performance of fiscal rules in resource-rich countries (RRC). Using panel data for 57 commodity exporting countries from 1976 to 2021, we find that fiscal rules: (i) reduce the procyclicality of real public expenditures with terms of trade in oil exporting countries,...

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A Model-Based Fiscal Taylor Rule and a Toolkit to Assess the Fiscal Stance

Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2020

This paper presents a model-based fiscal Taylor rule and a toolkit to assess the fiscal stance, defined as the change in the structural primary balance. This is built on the normative buffer-stock model of the government (Fournier, 2019) which includes key channels like hysteresis,...

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Predicting Fiscal Crises

Cerovic, Svetlana - 2018

This paper identifies leading indicators of fiscal crises based on a large sample of countries at different stages of development over 1970-2015. Our results are robust to different methodologies and sample periods. Previous literature on early warning sistems (EWS) for fiscal crises is scarce...

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Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform in China

Wingender, Philippe - 2018

China is the most decentralized country in the world in terms of expenditures shares, with subnational governments responsible for 85 percent of government spending. Limited revenue autonomy and insufficient intergovernmental transfers have led to large unfunded mandates and a build-up of debt...

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Fiscal Discipline and Exchange Rates : Does Politics Matter?

Tavares, José - 2016

We look at the effect of exchange rate regimes on fiscal discipline, taking into account the effect of underlying political conditions. We present a model where strong politics (defined as policymakers facing longer political horizon and higher cohesion) are associated with better fiscal...

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The Influence of Gender Budgeting in Indian States on Gender Inequality and Fiscal Spending

Stotsky, Janet Gale - 2016

This study investigates the effect of gender budgeting in India on gender inequality and fiscal spending. Gender budgeting is an approach to budgeting in which governments use fiscal policies and administration to address gender inequality and women's advancement. There is little quantitative...

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