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This paper argues that better governance practices can reduce the costs, risks and uncertainty of financial intermediation. Our sample covers high-, middle- and low-income countries before and after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that net interest margins of banks are lower if...
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between political fragmentation and public debt changes. Corruption magnifies the effects; with higher perceived corruption …
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Corruption, particularly political or “grand” corruption, distorts the entire decision-making process connected with … shows that higher corruption is associated with (i) higher public investment; (ii) lower government revenues; (iii) lower … corruption increases public investment while reducing its productivity. These are five channels through which corruption lowers …
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extent of state regulatory activities. Rising corruption also has a clearly positive impact on the growth of the shadow …
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This paper examines the role of corruption in the design of monetary policies for developing countries in a framework …, is typically not credible in countries with serious corruption. Second, the optimal degree of conservatism for a Rogoff … (1985)-type central banker is an inverse function of the corruption level. Third, either an optimally designed inflation …
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discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …
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Direct measurement of corruption is difficult due to its hidden nature, and measuring the perceptions of corruption via … countries by applying sentiment analysis to Financial Times articles over 2005-18. This sentiment-enhanced corruption perception … index (SECPI) captures not only the frequncy of corruption related articles, but also the articles' sentiment towards …
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This paper quantifies the savings obtained from risk pooling with a Regional Stabilization Fund (RSF) for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. A Monte Carlo experiment is used to estimate the size of a RSF conditional on probabilities of depletion under specific saving-withdrawal rules. Results...
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This paper argues that oil revenue management and public investment in Congo are vulnerable to corruption as a result … of limited transparency and accountability. Corruption has potentially contributed to poor macro-fiscal outcomes. The … paper acknowledges the authorities' anti-corruption efforts made so far and proposes further critical reforms to reduce …
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