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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...
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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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Insurance enterprises provide services, called insurance services, to policyholders. The values of such services are … discusses the treatment of insurance services, and related transactions, in the balance of payments. A simple measure, based on … a number of assumptions, of nonlife insurance services is considered. The assumptions underlying this measure are then …
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In this paper, we examine how the presence of country insurance schemes affects policymakers'' incentives to undertake … reform in crisis-prone volatile economies. The consequences of country insurance, however, hinge on the nature of the reforms … ultimately discouraged by, insurance. By contrast, ""enhancing"" reforms that pay off more generously in the absence of a crisis …
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This paper describes the compilation of the first truly comprehensive database on gross government debt-to-GDP ratios, covering nearly the entire IMF membership (174 countries) and spanning an exceptionally long time period. The database was constructed by bringing together a number of other...
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This paper takes stock of the evolution of the international monetary system over the last thousand years. Several points stand out from the analysis. One is the reluctance of governments to embrace radical changes in international monetary relations. Another is the conflict between external and...
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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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