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Despite positive but mixed progress over two decades, most lower income African countries need to enhance their low tax-to-GDP ratios by mobilizing domestic resources to complement debt relief, donor aid and to achieve the MDG and poverty reduction objectives. With these goals in mind, most...
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demand shock and to assess how the effects of various demand and supply shocks change in the presence of oil storage facility … supply shocks in driving oil price fluctuations. Our results also confirm that a change in the composition of shocks helps …
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permanent oil supply shocks hitting the world economy at an unspecified future date. For modest-sized shocks and conventional …
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examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia … foreign claims was associated with a substantial reduction in domestic credit supply in a broad sample of countries. However …, the credit supply response in Asia was only about half the size of the response in non-Asian countries, possibly due to a …
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between shocks to the supply and demand for global liquidity, and isolate their impact on the economy. Our results confirm …
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negative credit supply shock applied to SMEs has an adverse effect on economic activity, and this impact is amplified in …
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examines one particular channel at work: the supply of credit. It presents a model in which a bank, even if managed by risk …-neutral shareholders and subject to limited liability, can exhibit self-insurance, and thus loan supply contracts when uncertainty … credit supply is achieved by looking at the differential response of banks according to their level of capitalization …
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and their distinct effects. Kilian (2009) analyzes the effects of an oil supply shock, an aggregate demand shock, and a …
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countries/regions over the period 1979Q2 2011Q2, to discriminatebetween supply-driven and demand-driven oil-price shocks and to … economicconsequences of a supply-driven oil-price shock are very different from those of an oil-demand shock driven by global economic …-lived fall in economic activity in response to a supply-driven surge in oil prices, the impact is positive for energy …
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This paper focuses on the nexus between pension funds' balance sheet liabilities, reflecting their age profile and payments obligations, and the investment behavior and costs of these funds. The context of the analysis is the stringent regulatory framework and the highly fragmented and...
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