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Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture : A Gravity Approach

Paiva, Claudio - 2014

support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …

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Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes : Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework

Quintyn, Marc - 2012

This paper tests the theoretical framework developed by North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) on the transition from closed to open access societies. They posit that societies need to go through three doorsteps: the establishment of rule of law among elites; the adoption of perpetually existing...

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Structural Funds and the 1992 Program in the European Community

Gordon, James P. - 2013

Equity and efficiency justifications are found for the Community`s Structural Funds which are discovered to be carefully targeted at depressed regions, albeit with some horizontal inequities. If Fund transfers displace national assistance, then they may be misallocated by being tied to regional...

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Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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The Agricultural Exodus in the Philippines : Are Wage Differentials Driving the Process?

Cerutti, Eugenio; Li, Yiliang - 2022

Lagging labor reallocations outside agriculture amid sustained low agricultural productivity have been a key feature in … the Philippines over the past 15 years. An analysis of the labor adjustments in and out of agriculture shows that a … from agriculture, whilst the lack of post-primary education and the presence of agricultural clusters hinder such outflows …

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Inequality and Poverty in India : Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response

Arbatli, Elif C.; Coppo, Mattia; Khalil, Nasser; … - 2023

Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of U.S. Monetary Policy on Non-Bank Finance

Hodge, Andrew; Weber, Anke - 2023

Using flow of funds and high frequency data from the Investment Company Institute, we study the effects of monetary policy shocks on the size of non-bank assets as well as on flows into long-term mutual funds and returns on their assets. Consolidating chains of non-bank intermediation to avoid...

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Macroprudential Policy and Bank Systemic Risk : Does Inflation Targeting Matter?

Belkhir, Mohamed; Ben Naceur, Sami; Candelon, Bertrand; … - 2023

This paper investigates macroprudential policy effects on bank systemic risk and the role of inflation targeting in such effects. Using bank-level data for 45 countries comprising various monetary and exchange rate regimes, our regime-dependent dynamic panel regression results point to...

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Quasi-Fiscal Implications of Central Bank Crisis Interventions : Case Studies

Hooley, John; Lattie, Claney; Stella, Peter - 2023

This paper presents case studies of central bank crisis interventions during the Covid-19 and the Global Financial Crises in four jurisdictions (Canada, Chile, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The paper serves as an Annex to the main IMF Working Paper WP/23/114 ‘Quasi-Fiscal...

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Quasi-Fiscal Implications of Central Bank Crisis Interventions

Hooley, John; Khan, Ashraf; Lattie, Claney; Mak, Istvan; … - 2023

We develop a stylized balance sheet framework to help identify ‘quasi-fiscal’ components of central bank crisis interventions and show how sources of fiscal risk are created from both the new claims and how they are funded. Combining central bank balance sheet data with survey evidence from...

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