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Fiscal policy responses to external shocks are analyzed in an institutional setting that typically characterizes a small open developing economy. In such an economy, taxation of external trade is a major source of government revenue, and external shocks have direct impacts on the fiscal sector....
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A robust empirical determinant of long-term economic growth in many developing countries has been the expansion and diversification of the export sector. The latter, in turn, has been influenced by capital accumulation and economic growth. The growth model developed here explores this...
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External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...
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Global merchandise trade expanded rapidly over the last 6 1/2 decades and its relationship with global income has seen ebbs and flows. This paper examines the shifts in this relationship using time series data over 1950-2014 and situates it in the current and longer term context. The...
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Global trade growth has slowed since 2012 relative both to its strong historical performance and to overall economic growth. This paper aims to quantify the role of weak economic growth and changes in its decomposition in accounting for the slowdown in trade using a reduced form and a structural...
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The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50 percent of variation in exports is along the...
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still in their infancy. Similarly, despite the introduction of new private sector insurance companies coverage of insurance … public ownership in banks and insurance companies, expansion of the contractual savings system through more rapid expansion … of the insurance and pension systems, greater spread of mutual funds, and development of institutional investors. It is …
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Interconnectedness among global systemically important banks (GSIBs) and global systemically important insurers (GSIIs) has important financial stability implications. This paper examines connectedness among United States, European and Asian GSIBs and GSIIs, using publicly-available daily equity...
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work. Recently, more emphasis has also been placed on the role of insurance for financial stability analysis. This paper … reviews the current state of system-wide solvency stress tests for insurance based on a comparative review of national … consistent implementation of such exercises. The paper also offers recommendations on improving the current insurance stress …
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This paper estimates insurance requirements against natural disasters (NDs) in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union … (ECCU) using an insurance layering framework. The layers include a government saving fund, as well as market instruments …
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