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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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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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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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