Ukraine's gas pricing policy subsidizes gas and heating for all households. As the cost of imported gas rises, this policy increasingly weighs on government finances, sustains energy over-consumption, dampens investment in delivery systems, and undermines incentives for domestic production....

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MAGNITUDE OF FUEL PRICE SUBSIDIES IN GABON -- III. COMPARISON WITH SELECTED DEVELOPING AND EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES -- IV. DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACT OF FUEL PRICE SUBSIDIES -- V. MITIGATING THE EFFECT OF PRICE INCREASES ON THE POOR -- VI. CONCLUSION...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. A MODEL OF A POLITICAL PRICE CYCLES IN A REGULATED INDUSTRY -- IV. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Appendix 1. List of Countries Included in the Empirical Work -- REFERENCES.

The financial crisis in the advanced countries that began in 2007 has led central bankers to adopt unconventional policy measures as policy interest rates neared the zero bound. One suggestion (Blanchard, Dell'Ariccia, and Mauro, 2010) has been to raise inflation targets to provide more room for...

Financial network analysis is used to provide firm level bottom-up holistic visualizations of interconnections of financial obligations in global OTC derivatives markets. This helps to identify Systemically Important Financial Intermediaries (SIFIs), analyse the nature of contagion propagation,...

This paper examines the role of the derivatives market in South Africa and provides policy options for promoting the development of derivatives markets in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa's derivatives market has grown rapidly in recent years, supporting capital inflows and helping market...

This paper examines the Argentine experience with GDP-indexed warrants in order to gauge the existence of a novelty premium on new financial instruments. It develops a Monte Carlo pricing exercise to calculate the expected net present value of payments, on the basis of various forecast...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EQUITY RETURNS AND SYSTEMATIC DEFAULT RISK -- III. EXTRACTING SYSTEMATIC DEFAULT RISK MEASURES FROM CREDIT DERIVATIVES PRICES -- IV. IS SYSTEMATIC DEFAULT RISK PRICED IN EQUITY RETURNS? -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.

Lucas (2004) asserts that "Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution... The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current...