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Banks As Coordinators of Economic Growth
Ueda, Kenichi - 2006
This paper formally identifies an important role of banks: Banks competitively internalize production externalities and facilitate economic growth. I formulate a canonical growth model with externalities as a game among consumers, firms, and banks. Banks compete for deposits to seek monopoly...
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Market Phoenixes and Banking Ducks Are Recoveries Faster in Market-Based Financial Systems?
Allard, Julien - 2011
Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in particular the more bank-based economies of continental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398329
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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom
Podpiera, Jiří - 2021
exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796259
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Insurance and Issues in Financial Soundness
Das, Udaibir S. - 2003
This paper explores insurance as a source of financial system vulnerability. It provides a brief overview of the … insurance industry and reviews the risks it faces, as well as several recent failures of insurance companies that had systemic … implications. Assimilation of banking-type activities by life insurers appears to be the key systemic vulnerability. Building on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403822
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Environmental tax reform : principles from theory and practice to date
Heine, Dirk; Nørregaard, John; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2012
energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694116
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Productivity growth and value chains in four European countries
Karpowicz, Izabela; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2020
Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...
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Inflation Targeting Under Asymmetric Preferences
Ruge-Murcia, Francisco Javier - 2001
''s preference parameters for Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are statistically different from the one implied by the commonly …
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The Fiscal Stance in Sweden : A Generational Accounting Perspective
John, Christoph - 1995
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap : An Application to Sweden
Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2000
methods to the case of Sweden, showing the range of estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399814
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Financial inclusion : what have we learned so far? : what do we have to learn?
Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Belhaj, Mohamed; Ben … - 2020
, such as encouraging banking competition or channeling government payments through bank accounts, play an important role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300650