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-not (necessarily) as a source of development finance). The case for such taxes is strong: the tax burden on international aviation is …
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The paper surveys the characteristics of explicit systems of deposit insurance in 68 countries. It compares these actual practices with a set of best practices that has been adopted by IMF staff for their advice to member countries. These best practices seek to establish a system of deposit...
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The paper''s central theme is that where a financial crisis emerges, regional supervisors should have systems in place to effectively respond to their country-specific crises and-in the case of foreign operations and financial conglomerates-to collaborate comprehensively with other supervisory...
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stronger shareholder protection and if the target’s industry is more competitive. We conclude that the international market for … corporate control promotes the adoption of better corporate governance practices around the world …
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This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and … of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the … analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on income, consumption, and international borrowing. A simulation …
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, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments …
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This paper studies the changes in world business cycles during 1960-2003. We employ a Bayesian dynamic latent factor …
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Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
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This paper examines the empirical link between fiscal policy and the current account focusing on microstates defined as countries with a population of less than 2 million between 1970 and 2009. The paper employs panel regression and panel vector autoregression (VAR) on 155 countries of which 42...
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