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Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution.

Chamon, Marcos - 2006

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Modis; A Market-Oriented Deposit Insurance Scheme

Zoli, Edda; Xie, Danyang; Vaez-Zadeh, Reza - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper argues that an optimal deposit insurance scheme would allow the level of insurance coverage to be determined … by the market. Based on this principle, the paper proposes an insurance scheme that minimizes distortions and embodies … fairness and credibility, two essential characteristics of a viable and effective deposit insurance scheme. Using a simple …

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Cyclical Implications of Changing Bank Capital Requirements in a Macroeconomic Framework

Ganapolsky, Eduardo J.J.; Catalán, Mario - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

There is a widespread view that bank capital requirements should be loosened during recessions and tightened during expansions to avoid excessive credit and output swings. This view is based on a partial analysis that ignores the effects of capital requirement policies on the saving decisions of...

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Elasticity Optimism

Fund, International Monetary - 2009

In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...

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International Trade Spillovers from Domestic COVID-19 Lockdowns

Aiyar, Shekhar - 2022

While standard demand factors perform well in predicting historical trade patterns, they fail conspicuously in 2020, when pandemic-specific factors played a key role above and beyond demand. Prediction errors from a multilateral import demand model in 2020 vary systematically with the health...

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Geopolitics and International Trade: The Democracy Advantage

Cevik, Serhan - 2024

Do political regimes determine how geopolitics influence international trade? This paper provides an empirical answer to the question by analyzing the joint impact of democracy and geopolitical distance between countries with an augmented gravity model of bilateral trade flows and an extensive...

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Macroprudential Solvency Stress Testing of the Insurance Sector

Jobst, Andreas A. - 2014

surveillance work. Recently, more emphasis has also been placed on the role of insurance for financial stability analysis. This … paper reviews the current state of system-wide solvency stress tests for insurance based on a comparative review of national …

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Institutional Quality, Knightian Uncertainty, and Insurability : A Cross-Country Analysis

Erbas, S. Nuri - 2006

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How the Financial Crisis Affects Pensions and Insurance and Why the Impacts Matter

Tower, Ian - 2009

This paper discusses the key sources of vulnerabilities for pension plans and insurance companies in light of the …

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The trade impact of China on EMU : is it even across members?

Mikkelsen, Uffe; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area countries. Simulations on the impact of productivity...

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