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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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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 …
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ex-ante preparedness is needed to manage the risks. The paper discusses sovereign experience with disaster insurance as a … key instrument to mitigate the risks; proposes ways to judge the adequacy of insurance; and considers ways to enhance its … use by vulnerable countries. The paper especially aims to inform policy decisions on disaster insurance. Through …
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stability of the banking system, a government’s commitment to shield banks from contagion may increase their incentives to … invest prudently and so reduce bank risk taking. This systemic insurance effect will be relatively more important when …
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Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...
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energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy …
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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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''s preference parameters for Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are statistically different from the one implied by the commonly …
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This paper argues that securities transaction taxes ""throw sand"" not in the wheels, but into the engine of financial markets where the transformation of latent demands into realized transactions takes place. The paper considers the impact of transaction taxes on financial markets in the...
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