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Limited access to finance and its high cost have contributed to relatively low levels of private investment and subpar growth in the Kyrgyz Republic. Interest rate spreads have moderated in recent years, but remain high from both a regional and global perspective. At the same time, collateral...
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This short paper reviews recent literature on the use of long-term finance in developing economies (relative to advanced ones) to identify where long-term financing occurs, and what role different financial intermediaries and markets play in extending this type of financing. Although banks are...
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This paper exploits the Financial Accounts of the United States to derive long time series of bank and nonbank credit … cycle, (ii) recessions and recoveries, and (iii) systemic financial crises. We find that bank and nonbank credit exhibit … different dynamics throughout the business cycle. This diverging cyclical behavior of output and bank and nonbank credit argues …
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This paper studies the transmission of bank capital shocks to loan supply in Indonesia. A series of theoretically … aggregate lending. Likewise, the effects of bank recapitalization on loan growth depend on banks' starting capital positions and …
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This paper examines the response of firms to capital destruction, using a new measure of firm exposure to tropical storms as a negative exogenous shock on firms' capital stock. Drawing on a panel of Indian manufacturing firms between 1995 and 2006, we establish that, depending on their strength,...
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This paper examines the ability of alternative classes of growth models to explain the historical experience of the U.S. economy. The potential returns to the U.S. from raising its investment rate in terms of both the level and growth rate of future output are then quantified. The long-run...
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Capital flight may undermine economic growth and the effectiveness of debt relief and foreign aid. This paper is the first attempt to test whether unsound macroeconomic policies or weak institutions lead to capital flight, using panel data for a large set of developing, emerging market and...
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, and bank mortgages are intertwined in what we call a deadly embrace. Without macroprudential policies, this deadly embrace …
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weaknesses in bank balance sheets, consumption-led economic growth, and relatively high net interest margins. Bank-level analysis … suggests that interest margins in the Philippines rise with bank size, bank capitalization, foreign ownership, overhead costs … and tax rates. Using bank-level data for a number of Asian economies, we find that higher growth, lower inflation, higher …
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