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Foreign Banks : Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Claessens, Stijn - 2012
This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116464
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The Short-Term Impact of Product Market Reforms : A Cross-Country Firm-Level Analysis
Gal, Peter N. - 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of product market reforms in the short and medium term across 10 regulated industries and 18 advanced economies for the period 1998-2013 using internationally comparable firm-level data based on Orbis. It provides four key insights. First, product market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977841
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Is Military Spending Converging Across Countries? An Examination of Trends and Key Determinants
Clements, Benedict - 2019
This paper studies the evolution of worldwide military spending during 1970-2018. It finds thatmilitary spending in relation to GDP is converging, but into three separate groups of countries. Inthe largest group, responsible for 90 percent of worldwide spending, outlays have remainedstubbornly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859871
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Shadow Economies Around the World : What Did We Learn Over the Last 20 Years?
Medina, Leandro - 2018
shadow economy. New results on the shadow economy for 158 countries all over the world are presented over 1991 to 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927456
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Cyclical Patterns of Systemic Risk Metrics : Cross-Country Analysis
Iossifov, Plamen K.; Schmidt, Tomas Dutra - 2021
We analyze a range of macrofinancial indicators to extract signals about cyclical systemic risk across 107 economies over 1995-2020. We construct composite indices of underlying liquidity, solvency and mispricing risks and analyze their patterns over the financial cycle. We find that liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243043
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Household Deleveraging and Saving Rates : A Cross-Country Analysis
Bouis, Romain - 2022
Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists, this adjustment can slow GDP growth by weighing on consumption. Using a sample of advanced and emerging market economies, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306732
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Foreign Banks : Trends, Impact and Financial Stability
Claessens, Stijn - 2012
This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111348
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Inflation Responses to Commodity Price Shocks - How and Why Do Countries Differ?
Ustyugova, Yulia - 2012
higher food shares in CPI baskets, fuel intensities, and pre-existing inflation levels were more prone to experience … scores seem to have contained the impact of these shocks better. The effect of the presence of inflation targeting regimes … inflation responds to international commodity price shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098581
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Is Inflation Domestic or Global? Evidence from Emerging Markets
Bems, Rudolfs - 2018
Following a period of disinflation during the 1990s and early 2000s, inflation in emerging markets has remained … remarkably low and stable. Was this related to a global disinflation environment triggered by China's integration into world … inflation performance in a sample of 19 large emerging markets in the past couple of decades and quantify the impact of domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906877
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Global Food Prices and Domestic Inflation : Some Cross-Country Evidence
Furceri, Davide - 2015
This paper provides a broad brush look at the impact of fluctuations in global food prices on domestic inflation in a … advanced economies, and less anchored inflation expectations in emerging economies than in advanced economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019007