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Decomposing Climate Risks in Stock Markets
Yang, Yuanchen - 2023
Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to the world economy and the global financial system. This paper sets out to understand and quantify the impact of climate mitigation, with a focus on climate-related news, which represents an important information source that investors use to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059379
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Altruism and Workers' Remittances : Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia
Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques - 2006
. Tunisia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691145
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Why Is Tunisia's Unemployment So High? Evidence From Policy Factors
Belgacem, Aymen - 2023
Tunisia has one of the highest unemployment rates within the Middle East and Central Asia. We look at the extent to … institutional factors that affect labor demand explain not only about a quarter of the unemployment rate increase in Tunisia, but … also Tunisia's excess sensitivity of unemployment to the output gap. Our results suggest that an improved business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059052
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Local governments’ fiscal balance, privatization, and banking sector reform in transition countries
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012
liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly 'no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational f …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618582
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What Do Remittances Do? Analyzing the Private Remittance Transmission Mechanism in El Salvador.
Nery Saca, Nolvia - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BRIEF REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON EL SALVADOR'S RECEIPTS OF REMITTANCES -- III. STYLIZED FACTS OF EL SALVADOR'S ECONOMY, 1995-2004 -- IV. MODEL SPECIFICATION AND DATA ISSUES -- V. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: TRANSMISSION MECHANISM -- VI. CONCLUSIONS AND ECONOMIC...
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Pension Privatization and Country Risk
Cuevas, Alfredo - 2008
pension liabilities during the reform's transition period, a pension privatization reform may transform IPD int …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677645
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Tackling Private Over-Indebtedness in Asia : Economic and Legal Aspects
Garrido, Jose - 2020
One consequence of interest rates remaining 'too low for too long' since the Global Financial Crisis is the buildup in private leverage in emerging economies. These vulnerabilities have been laid bare by the COVID-19 shock. This paper employs the growth at risk framework (Adrian, Boyarchenko,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408871
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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms; Evidence From Eastern Europe and Latin America
Kinoshita, Yuko; Campos, Nauro F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826274
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Early Birds, Late Risers, and Sleeping Beauties; Bank Credit Growth to the Private Sector in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Balkans
Hollar, Ivanna Vladkova; Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Following a period of privatization and restructuring, commercial banks in Central and Eastern Europe and, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769208
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Too much finance?
Arcand, Jean-Louis L.; Berkes, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo - 2012
This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use different empirical approaches to show that there can indeed be ""too much"" finance. In particular, our results suggest that finance starts having a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618521