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From Global Savings Glut to Financing Infrastructure : The Advent of Investment Platforms

Arezki, Rabah - 2016

This paper investigates the emerging global landscape for public-private co-investments in infrastructure. The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called 'infrastructure investment platforms' are an attempt to tap into the pool of both public and private long-term...

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Pension Funds and Emerging Markets

Chan-Lau, Jorge - 2021

This paper focuses on the investment behavior of pension funds in developed and emerging market countries. First, it analyzes the main determinants of the emerging market asset allocation of pension funds in developed countries. Second, it assesses how pension funds in emerging markets have...

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Transport Infrastructure, City Productivity Growth and Sectoral Reallocation : Evidence from China

Yang, Yang - 2019

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset ofbilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized highway network maps, andfirm-level census. I first...

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Highways to Heaven : Infrastructure Determinants and Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cerra, Valerie - 2016

Inadequate infrastructure has been widely viewed as a principal barrier to growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure in the region and highlights key areas in which infrastructure networks can be enhanced. The public...

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Greece's Investment Gap

Hua, Shiqing; Méndez, María; Xu, Xin Cindy - 2022

Greece’s investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world …

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Future of Asia's Finance : How Can it Meet Challenges of Demographic Change and Infrastructure Needs?

Ding, Ding - 2014

There is a role for Asia's financial sector to play to address the challenges associated with the region's changing … intra-regional financial flows and mobilize resources from the aging savers in industrialized Asia to finance infrastructure … investment in emerging Asia. Strengthening the financial ties within the region as well as with the global financial markets …

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Shadow Banking and Market Discipline on Traditional Banks

Ari, Anil - 2018

We present a model in which shadow banking arises endogenously and undermines marketdiscipline on traditional banks. Depositors' ability to re-optimize in response to crisesimposes market discipline on traditional banks: these banks optimally commit to a safeportfolio strategy to prevent early...

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Handle with Care : Regulatory Easing in Times of COVID-19

Valencia, Fabián; Varghese, Richard; Yao, Weija; … - 2021

The policy response to the COVID-19 shock included regulatory easing across many jurisdictions to facilitate the flow of credit to the economy and mitigate a further ampli-fication of the shock through tighter financial conditions. Using an intraday event study,this paper examines how stock...

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Government Intervention and Bank Market Power : Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis for the COVID-19 Crisis

Tan, Brandon; Igan, Deniz; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic could result in large government interventions in the banking industry. To shed light on the possible consequences on market power, we rely on the experience of the global financial crisis and exploit granular data on government interventions in more than 800 banks across...

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Stress Testing U.S. Leveraged Corporates in a COVID-19 World

Caceres, Carlos; Cerdeiro, Diego; Pan, Dan; … - 2021

This paper analyzes a group of 755 firms, with aggregate indebtedness of US$6.2 trillion, to assess the solvency risks and liquidity needs facing the U.S. corporate sector based on projections of net income, availability and cost of funding, and debt servicing flows under different stress test...

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