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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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The sources of fiscal fluctuations
Levy, Antoine; Ricci, Luca Antonio; Werner, Alejandro … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392092
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Natural disaster insurance for sovereigns : issues, challenges and optimality
Cebotari, Aliona; Youssef, Karim - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170086
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A Historical Public Debt Database
International Monetary Fund - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402998
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170132
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400680
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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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The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Public Debt Management
International Monetary Fund - 1995
Sweden and relates it to the theoretical arguments in favor or against the Issuance of foreign currency debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398634
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395956