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Unlocking Access to Finance for SMEs : A Cross-Country Analysis
Fouejieu, Armand - 2020
Countries in the MENAP and CCA regions have the lowest levels of financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the world. The paper provides empirical evidence on the drivers of SME access to finance for a large sample of countries, and identifies key policy priorities for these...
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Closing Gender Gaps in India : Does Increasing Womens' Access to Finance Help?
Khera, Purva - 2018
Gender gaps in womens' economic opportunities-labor market and entrepreneurship-have remained high inIndia. Lack of adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them torely on informal sources, constraining their growth. A small-open economy DSGE...
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Financial Regulation and the Current Account
Lanau, Sergi - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between financial regulation and the current account in an intertemporal model of … the current account where financial regulation affects the current account through liquidity constraints. Greater … tested with an interacted panel VAR model where the coefficients are allowed to vary with the degree of financial regulation …
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Central Bank Independence and Macro-Prudential Regulation
Ueda, Kenichi - 2012
We consider the optimality of various institutional arrangements for agencies that conduct macro-prudential regulation …
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Labor Market Dynamics, Informality and Regulations in Latin America
David, Antonio C. - 2020
rigid regulation. This paper shows that these two features are related and together make the speed of adjustment of …
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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State
Charap, Joshua - 2006
This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...
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Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound
Cacciatore, Matteo - 2017
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market reforms when the economy facesmajor slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing. such as the zero lowerbound. To this end, we build a two-country model with endogenous producer entry, labormarket frictions, and nominal...
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Market Regulation, Cycles and Growth in a Monetary Union
Abbritti, Mirko - 2019
We build a two-country currency union DSGE model with endogenous growth to assess the role of cross-country differences in product and labor market regulations for long-term growth and for the adjustment to shocks. We show that with endogenous growth, there is no reason to expect real income...
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Post-Crisis International Banking : An Analysis with New Regulatory Survey Data
Ichiue, Hibiki - 2016
literature however suggests an opposite effect related to regulation, with tighter regulations encouraging foreign lending …
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Regulating Local Government Financing Vehicles and Public-Private Partnerships in China
Jin, Hui - 2016
regulation is key to delivering PPPs' benefits while containing their potential fiscal risks. The authorities have taken concrete …
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