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Poghosyan, Tigran - 2012

We analyze factors driving persistently higher financial intermediation costs in low-income countries (LICs) relative to emerging market (EMs) country comparators. Using the net interest margin as a proxy for financial intermediation costs at the bank level, we find that within LICs a...

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Systemic risk from global financial derivatives : a network analysis of contagion and its mitigation with super-spreader tax

Markose, Sheri M. - 2012

Financial network analysis is used to provide firm level bottom-up holistic visualizations of interconnections of financial obligations in global OTC derivatives markets. This helps to identify Systemically Important Financial Intermediaries (SIFIs), analyse the nature of contagion propagation,...

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Disintermediation and Monetary Transmission in Canada.

Roldos, Jorge - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FINANCIAL DEREGULATION AND DISINTERMEDIATION -- III. CHANGES IN MONETARY TRANSMISSION: EVIDENCE FROM VAR MODELS -- IV. CHANGES IN MONETARY TRANSMISSION: EVIDENCE FROM STRUCTURAL MODELS -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- References.

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Banking Spreads in Latin America.

Gelos, Gaston - 2006

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Financial Intermediation, Competition, and Risk

De Nicoló, Gianni - 2009

We study a simple general equilibrium model in which investment in a risky technology is subject to moral hazard and banks can extract market power rents. We show that more bank competition results in lower economy-wide risk, lower bank capital ratios, more efficient production plans and...

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The Transmission of Financial Stress from Advanced to Emerging Economies

Danninger, Stephan - 2009

This paper studies how financial stress is transmitted from advanced to emerging economies, using a new financial stress index for emerging economies. An episode of financial stress is defined as a period when the financial system's ability to intermediate may be impaired. Previous financial...

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Does Good Financial Performance Mean Good Financial Intermediation in China?

Feyzioglu, Tarhan - 2009

Chinese banks generate large profits and have relatively low nonperforming loans. However, good financial performance does not, in itself, guarantee that banks efficiently intermediate the economy's financial resources. This paper first examines how efficient Chinese banks are in financial...

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Public Financial Institutions in Developed Countries; Organization and Oversight

Ratnovski, Lev; Narain, Aditya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

While public financial institutions (such as public development banks) are commonly associated with developing countries, in fact they are prevalent in the developed world as well. We study a sample of public financial institutions in industrialized countries and identify dominant trends in...

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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses

Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …

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Stepping Up Venture Capital to Finance Innovation in Europe

Arnold, Nathaniel - 2024

Relative to the US, productivity growth and investment in R&D in lagging in the EU, where it is more difficult to finance and scale up promising, innovative startups. Many of the most successful EU startups move elsewhere for financing, causing the EU to lose out on both the direct growth...

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