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Is Housing Wealth an 'ATM'? The Relationship Between Household Wealth, Home Equity Withdrawal, and Saving Rates.

Klyuev, Vladimir - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HAVE SAVING RATES REALLY FALLEN? -- III. LIKELY IMPACT OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND LIBERALIZATION ON HOME EQUITY WITHDRAWAL ( HEW) AND SAVING -- IV. TRENDS IN HEWAND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ACROSS COUNTRIES -- V. HOW DOES HEW AFFECT HOUSEHOLD SAVING? -- VI....

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Does a Wealth Tax Improve Equality of Opportunity? Evidence from Norway

Berg, Kristoffer - 2021

Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth … intergenerational data from Norway, focusing on effects on wages rather than capital income. Results suggest that a net wealth of NOK 1 …. The estimated hypothetical wage distribution without the wealth tax is more unequal. Moreover, suggestive evidence …

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Crises, labor market policy, and unemployment

Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012

Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...

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Foreign banks : trends, impact and financial stability

Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - 2012

This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...

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Systemic banking crises database : an update

Laeven, Luc; Valencia, Fabian - 2012

We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e. fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt). We also update our dating of...

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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries

McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012

The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...

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Monitoring systemic risk based on dynamic thresholds

Lund-Jensen, Kasper - 2012

Successful implementation of macroprudential policy is contingent on the ability to identify and estimate systemic risk in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and this conditional probability is modeled in a fixed effect...

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What determines government spending multipliers?

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J. - 2012

This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...

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Building blocks for effective macroprudential policies in Latin America : institutional considerations

Jácome, Luis Ignacio; Nier, Erlend W.; Imam, Patrick - 2012

An increasing number of countries - including in Latin America - are reforming their financial stability frameworks in the aftermath of the financial crisis, in order to establish a stronger macroprudential policy function. This paper analyzes existing arrangements for financial stability in...

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A new heuristic measure of fragility and tail risks : application to stress testing

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas; Canetti, Elie; Kinda, Tidiane; … - 2012

This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to public debt. Stress testing can be seen as a first order test of the level of potential negative outcomes in response to tail shocks. However, the results of stress testing can be...

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