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Mining Spillovers in Chile
Perez Ruiz, Esther - 2017
estimates the effect of copper price shocks on mining, manufacturing, and construction-each embodying a sector type. The … empirical findings are for positive spillovers from mining to the other two sectors. However, the estimated size of the … spillovers seems modest, which raises the question of the potential for mining to be better integrated with the rest of the …
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Mining Revenues and Inclusive Development in Guinea
Badel, Alejandro; Fredman Lyngaas, Rachel - 2023
What are the potential benefits of increasing the taxation of a foreign extractive sector? This paper applies this question to the case of Guinea by using a multi-sector macro-inequality model with heterogeneous agents. We quantify the long-run equilibrium impact of additional taxation when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014354587
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What Caused the Global Financial Crisis? Evidence on the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999-2007
Nier, Erlend W. - 2011
This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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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...
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Bank Behavior in Response to Basel III : A Cross-Country Analysis
Cosimano, Thomas F. - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of the new capital requirements introduced under the Basel III framework on bank lending rates and loan growth. Higher capital requirements, by raising banks' marginal cost of funding, lead to higher lending rates. The data presented in the paper suggest that...
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Fiscal Rules at a Glance : Country Details from a New Dataset
Budina, Nina T. - 2012
This paper provides country-specific information on fiscal rules in use in 81 countries from 1985 to end-September 2012. It serves as background material and update of the July 2012 Working Paper Fiscal Rules in Response to the Crisis-Toward the 'Next Generation' Rules: A New Dataset and is also...
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Tracking Global Demand for Advanced Economy Sovereign Debt
Arslanalp, Serkan - 2012
Recent events have shown that sovereigns, just like banks, can be subject to runs, highlighting the importance of the investor base for their liabilities. This paper proposes a methodology for compiling internationally comparable estimates of investor holdings of sovereign debt. Based on this...
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Tax Composition and Growth : A Broad Cross-Country Perspective
Acosta Ormaechea, Santiago LE - 2012
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
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The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy
Cashin, Paul Anthony - 2012
We employ a set of sign restrictions on the generalized impulse responses of a Global VAR-model, estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979-2011Q2, to discriminate - between supply-driven and demand-driven oil-price shocks and to study the time profile of their macroeconomic effects...
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Workers' Remittances : An Overlooked Channel of International Business Cycle Transmission?
Barajas, Adolfo - 2012
-recipient countries and the rest of the world. Using both aggregate and bilateral remittances data in a panel data setting, the study …
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