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Economic Impact of Selected Conflicts in the Middle East : What Can We Learn from the Past?
Sab, Randa - 2014
Using narrative-based country-case studies, war episodes in the Middle East were examined to assess their economic … depended on the economic and institutional development of the country, economic structure, duration of the war, international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050680
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Japan's Restrictive System of Trade and Payments : Operation, Effectiveness, and Liberalization, 1950-1964
Takagi, Shinji - 2006
The paper summarizes how Japan`s foreign exchange and trade control system operated in the early 1950s, how and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782194
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Twenty Years of Unconventional Monetary Policies : Lessons and Way Forward for the Bank of Japan
Westelius, Niklas - 2021
The Bank of Japan has used unconventional monetary policies to fight deflation and stabilize the financial system since … the late 1990s. While the Bank of Japan's reflation efforts have evolved over time, inflation and inflation expectations … have remained stubbornly low. This paper examines the evolution of monetary policy in Japan over the past twenty years, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252055
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What Role Can Financial Policies Play in Revitalizing SMEs in Japan?
Lam, W. Raphael - 2013
The paper discusses the role the financial sector can play in supporting growth in Japan. While overall credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088729
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Cross-Border Activity of Japanese Banks
Lam, W. Raphael - 2013
the region. Stronger domestic growth in Japan could mitigate the pace, but is unlikely to reverse the expansion as global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071369
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The Economics of Political Transitions : Implications for the Arab Spring
Khandelwal, Padamja - 2014
Over the past two years, ongoing political transitions in many Arab countries have led to social unrest and an economic downturn. This paper examines comparable historical episodes of political instability to derive implications for the near- and medium-term economic outlook in the Arab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064261
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Social and Political Factors in a Model of Endogenous Economic Growth and Distribution : An Application to the Philippines
Villanueva, Delano - 2006
This paper proposes a model of endogenous economic growth and distribution explicitly incorporating social extraction and political competition, with an application to the Philippine historical experience. The major objective is to explain developments in the distribution of national income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781973
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Syria's Conflict Economy
Gobat, Jeanne - 2016
paper are subject to an extraordinary degree of uncertainty. The key messages are: (1) that the devastating civil war has … what it was before the war started and it could take two decades or more for Syria to return to its pre-conflict GDP levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977828
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Financial Distortions in China : A General Equilibrium Approach
Anzoategui, Diego - 2016
Widespread implicit guarantees and interest ceilings were major distortions in China's financial system, contributing to a misallocation of resources. We analyze the impact of removing such frictions in a general equilibrium setting. The results show that comprehensive reforms generate better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998763
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Fiscal Adjustment in the Gulf Countries : Less Costly than Previously Thought
Fouejieu, Armand - 2018
This paper estimates fiscal multipliers for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Using OLS panel fixed effects on a sample of six countries from 1990-2016, results indicate that GCC fiscal multipliers have declined in recent years which would make the on-going fiscal consolidation less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913891