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Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World
Ueda, Kenichi - 2008
There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living s …
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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008
Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. METHODOLOGY AND DATA -- III. DYNAMIC FACTORS AND EPISODES OF BUSINESS CYCLES -- IV. SOURCES OF BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS: 1960-2005 -- V. GLOBALIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CYCLES -- VI. SENSITIVITY EXPERIMENTS -- VII. CONCLUSION --...
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International Income Convergence
Francois, Joseph F. - 2008
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Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World : A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
Ueda, Kenichi - 2008
There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409039
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Legal Gender Equality as a Catalyst for Convergence
Sever, Can - 2022
in the law over the last five decades, the legal environment across the world is still far from providing a level playing …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618518
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Sovereign debt restructurings 1950 – 2010 : literature survey, data, and stylized facts
Das, Udaibir S.; Papaioannou, Michael G.; Trebesch, … - 2012
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of pertinent issues on sovereign debt restructurings, based on a newly constructed database. This is the first complete dataset of sovereign restructuring cases, covering the six decades from 1950-2010; it includes 186 debt exchanges with foreign banks and...
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Fiscal consolidation and the cost of credit : evidence from syndicated loans
Ağca, Şenay; Igan, Deniz - 2013
We examine how the cost of corporate credit varies around fiscal consolidations aimed at reducing government debt. Using a new dataset on fiscal consolidations and syndicated corporate loan data, we find that loan spreads increase with fiscal consolidations, especially for small firms, domestic...
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Is it (Still) Mostly Fiscal? Determinants of Sovereign Spreads in Emerging Markets
Gupta, Sanjeev - 2008
Using a panel of 30 emerging market economies from 1997 to 2007, this paper investigates the determinants of country risk premiums as measured by sovereign bond spreads. Unlike previous studies, the results indicate that both fiscal and political factors matter for credit risk in emerging...
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Tracking Global Demand for Advanced Economy Sovereign Debt.
Arslanalp, Serkan - 2012
Recent events have shown that sovereigns, just like banks, can be subject to runs, highlighting the importance of the investor base for their liabilities. This paper proposes a methodology for compiling internationally comparable estimates of investor holdings of sovereign debt. Based on this...
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