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Lebanon is expected to have gas resources in its Mediterranean basin, and these could turn the country into a natural gas producer over the next decade. Lebanon’s economy and institutions will thus need to adapt to the challenges and opportunities that such change will bring. In this...
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The boundary between the public and private sectors can be defined on the basis of ownership of institutional units. Nonmarket government-owned entities and corporations that are owned or controlled by government units belong to the public sector. “Economic ownership†is more important...
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Much of the information communicated by central banks is noisy or imperfect. This paper considers the potential benefits and limitations of central bank communications in a model of imperfect knowledge and learning. It is shown that the value of communicating imperfect information is ambiguous....
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, will have negative effects on welfare. This paper studies the welfare effects of varying levels of transparency in a model …
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This paper presents in a systematic (normative) manner the salient features of a SWF‘s governance structure, in … policy and setting of the risk tolerance level in order to ensure consistent risk-bearing capacity and greater accountability …
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accumulate a buffer of liquid assets, or strengthen transparency to communicate solvency. While a liquidity buffer provides … complete insurance against small shocks, transparency covers also large shocks but imperfectly. Due to leverage, an unregulated … bank may choose insufficient liquidity buffers and transparency. The regulatory response is constained: while liquidity …
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In this paper, we analyze how lack of credibility and transparency of monetary and fiscal policies undermines the … credible and lack transparency. If policies are imperfectly credible, then transparency helps private agents to learn the …-country evidence that monetary policy transparency and fiscal credibility reduce the incidence of export price volatility on output …
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The growing presence of Islamic banking needs to be accompanied by the development of effective regulation and supervision. This paper examines the results of the survey conducted by the International Monetary Fund to document international experiences and country practices related to legal and...
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We offer a novel methodology for assessing the quality of inflation reports. In contrast to the existing literature, which mostly evaluates the formal quality of these reports, we evaluate their economic content by comparing inflation factors reported by the central banks with ex-post...
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This paper considers the role of country-level opacity (the lack of availability of information) in amplifying shocks emanating from financial centers. We provide a simple model where, in the presence of ambiguity (uncertainty about the probability distribution of returns), prices in emerging...
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