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A strand of research documents Chile's copper dependence hence significant exposure to terms of trade shocks. Copper …'s adjustment capacity to external shocks. Following Malz (2014), this paper builds a time-varying measure of copper price …
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The paper concludes that world copper prices play an important role in short-term fluctuations and probably influence … copper price boom, the higher copper price and associated capital inflows create upward pressure on the real exchange rate …. The appreciation of the Chilean peso during the first part of the copper cycle contributes to lower inflation, which could …
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error correction model. The model fits the historical data well. While copper price is the most important determinant of the …
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This paper estimates the effect of copper prices on Chile's growth at various time horizons. We find that a price …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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