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The paper discusses the effectiveness of independent fiscal institutions-or fiscal councils-in taming the deficit bias that emerged in the 1970s. After a review of the main theoretical arguments and recent trends about fiscal councils, we develop a stylized model showing how a fiscal council can...
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The global surge in independent fiscal councils (IFCs) raises three related questions: How can IFCs improve the conduct of fiscal policy? Are they simultaneously desirable for voters and elected policymakers? And are they resilient to changes in political conditions? We build a model in which...
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The paper surveys six WTO agreements selected on the basis of their potential relevance for Fund-supported programs, namely Customs Valuation, Subsidies, Safeguards, Antidumping, Trade-Related Investment Measures, and Trade in Services. It offers a critical reading of the rules, and highlights...
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Countries increasingly rely on independent fiscal councils to constrain policymakers' discretion and curb the bias towards excessive deficits and pro-cyclical policies. Since fiscal councils are often recent and heterogeneous across countries, assessing their impact is challenging. Using the...
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In global financial centers, short-term market rates are effectively determined in the pledged collateral market, where … banks and other financial institutions exchange collateral (such as bonds and equities) for money. Furthermore, the use of … long-dated securities as collateral for short tenors-or example, in securities-lending and repo markets, and prime …
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An asset bubble relaxes collateral constraints and increases borrowing by credit-constrained agents. At the same time … of a binding collateral constraint. If debt is elevated, policy should lean against the bubble more aggressively to …
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We analyze the effects of macroprudential policies through the lens of an estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model tailored to developing markets. In particular, we explicitly introduce informality in the labor and goods markets within a small open economy embedding...
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This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries in developing countries and their parents during the global financial crisis, with the purpose of determining the size and sign of this correlation and, more importantly, understanding what factors can help...
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Transactions on wholesale capital markets are often secured by marketable collateral. However, collateral needs balance … may have the effect of impeding collateral flows. This may have important consequences for monetary policy transmission …-brokerage markets as suppliers of collateral. It highlights the incentives created by new regulations for different suppliers of …
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