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This paper presents a new dataset on the dynamics of non-performing loans (NPLs) during 88 banking crises since 1990. The data show similarities across crises during NPL build-ups but less so during NPL resolutions. We find a close relationship between NPL problems-elevated and unresolved...
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This paper introduces a new comprehensive database of macroprudential policies, which combines information from various …
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This paper presents a comprehensive database of country-specific commodity price indices for 182 economies covering the … using commodity-level trade data. The database includes a commodity terms-of-trade index-which proxies the windfall gains … and losses of income associated with changes in world prices-as well as additional country-specific series, including …
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We construct a new, comprehensive instrument-level database of sovereign debt for 18 advanced and emerging countries … over the period 1913-46. The database contains data on amounts outstanding for some 3,800 individual debt instruments as …
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We introduce a new comprehensive announcement-level database tracking the extraordinary fiscal, monetary, prudential …, and other policies that countries adopted in response to Covid-19. The database provides detailed information, including … announced during this period. Importantly, the database is organized and presented in a format easy for researchers to use in …
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This paper describes a new, comprehensive database of tax policy measures in 23 advanced and emerging market economies …, social security contributions, excise, and property taxes are systematically documented. In addition, the database provides … this database is useful to deepen the analysis of tax policy changes for research and policy purposes …
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This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign …
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This paper investigates the impact of the new capital requirements introduced under the Basel III framework on bank lending rates and loan growth. Higher capital requirements, by raising banks' marginal cost of funding, lead to higher lending rates. The data presented in the paper suggest that...
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This paper provides country-specific information on fiscal rules in use in 81 countries from 1985 to end-September 2012. It serves as background material and update of the July 2012 Working Paper Fiscal Rules in Response to the Crisis-Toward the 'Next Generation' Rules: A New Dataset and is also...
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