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that can justify macroprudential regulation. It explains how externalities associated with the activity of financial … externalities that can lead to systemic risk as: 1. Externalities related to strategic complementarities, that arise from the … expansionary phase of a financial cycle; 2. Externalities related to fire sales, that arise from a generalized sell-off of …
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Growing international integration in trade and finance can challenge the measurement of external accounts. This paper presents a unified conceptual framework for identifying sources of mismeasurement of foreign investment income in current account balances. The framework allows to derive a...
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incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality and in equality, and we extend the methodology to include environmental externalities …
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Domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) is essential for low-income and emerging economies to sustainably finance their development needs and has received increasing attention in recent years. Studies have centered on structural factors such as the size and the structure of the economy, and the...
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External headwinds, together with domestic vulnerabilities, have loomed over the prospects of emerging markets in recent years. We propose an empirical toolbox to quantify the impact of external macro-financial shocks on domestic economies in parsimonious way. Our model is a Bayesian VAR...
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decisions and consumer welfare depends on the relative size of search externalities in domestic and international markets. These … externalities can be positive if firms share information about potential matches, or negative if the market is congested. Using … unique firm-to-firm transaction-level data from Uganda, I document empirical evidence consistent with positive externalities …
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I provide an integrated analysis of monetary and macroprudential policies in a model economy featuring a financial friction and a nominal wage rigidity. In this set-up, the monetary authority faces a trade-off between macroeconomic and financial stability: While expansionary counter-cyclical...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the argument that debt relief would increase the incentive of a debtor country to make an adjustment effort (to invest) and that for this reason creditors may benefit by granting relief. It is shown that there are actually opposing incentive effects of...
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that incentives to retire early are strong for men, especially low-wage earners. The marginal effective tax rates also make … reform measures to enhance work incentives and labor participation, which will be crucial for dealing with population aging …
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We explore the behavior of supervisors when a centralized agency has full power over all decisions regarding banks, but relies on local supervisors to collect the information necessary to act. This institutional design entails a principal-agent problem between the central and local supervisors...
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