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institutions as well as deepening capital markets in developing countries to improve financing conditions and investment outcomes …
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This paper shows that high energy subsidies and low public social spending can emerge as an equilibrium outcome of a political game between the elite and the middle-class when the provision of public goods is subject to bottlenecks, reflecting weak domestic institutions. We test this and other...
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levels of development and benchmarks predicted by structural variables. Our dynamic panel estimation shows that inflation …
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Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions? In the absence of conclusive guidance from theory, this paper searches for an empirical answer to this question, using a panel dataset covering 110 non-resource-rich countries...
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Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five …
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We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …
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We examine determinants of, and interactions between, capital inflows, financial development, and domestic investment … macroeconomic policy. Both private capital inflows and domestic credit exert a positive effect on investment; they also mediate most … of the investment impact of the global price of risk and domestic borrowing costs. Surprisingly, neither greater domestic …
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Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …
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like no other at a time of record-breaking debt levels, especially among nonfinancial firms across the world, could …-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …
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We examine how firm and country heterogeneity shape the response of corporate investment in emerging markets to changes … the costs of external borrowing and (ii) a real options channel-reflecting firms' option values to delay investment. We … find evidence of the coexistence of both channels. Financially weaker firms reduce investment by more in response to higher …
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