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Confidence as a driver of private investment in selected countries of Central America
Janada, Carlos Alfredo; Teodoru, Iulia Ruxandra - 2020
This paper argues that structural weaknesses may make private investment particularly sensitive to business confidence … relative to other traditional investment drivers and global shocks. It gauges the importance of confidence over recent years in …, including a set of investment drivers (interest rates, unit labor costs, and confidence) is analyzed. The findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485965
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What determines social distancing? : evidence from advanced and emerging market economies
Dabla-Norris, Era; Khan, Hibah; Lima, Frederico - 2021
The health and economic consequences of COVID-19 are closely tied to individual compliance with recommended protective behaviors. We examine the determinants of this compliance using survey data from the COVID Behavior Tracker for 29 advanced and emerging market economies between March and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613656
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Give Trust a Chance : A Model of Trust in the Context of An Imf-Supported Program
Sembene, Daouda - 2007
This paper is an attempt to identify the determinants of trust between country authorities and IMF staff in the context of an IMF-supported program. Using an outcomes-based definition of trust, a game-theoretic model is developed to compute the level of trust between the two parties. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400783
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Adjustment Uncertainty, Confidence, and Growth : Latin America After the Debt Crisis
International Monetary Fund - 1989
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/10014395953
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Trust As a Means of Improving Corporate Governance and Efficiency
Chami, Ralph - 2002
Agency problems within the firm are a significant hindrance to efficiency. We propose trust between coworkers as a superior alternative to the standard tools used to mitigate agency problems: increased monitoring and incentive-based pay. We show how trust induces employees to work harder,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399593
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Constructing Forecast Confidence Bands During the Financial Crisis
Clinton, Kevin - 2009
We derive forecast confidence bands using a Global Projection Model covering the United States, the euro area, and … affects the United States. To calculate confidence intervals that respect the zero interest rate floor, we employ Latin … hypercube sampling. Derived confidence bands suggest non-negligible risks that U.S. interest rates might stay near zero for an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402370
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Crises, labor market policy, and unemployment
Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572447
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Labor market flexibility and unemployment : new empirical evidence of static and dynamic effects
Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572457
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Fiscal policy and the current account : are microstates different?
Endegnanew, Yehenew; Amo-Yartey, Charles; Turner-Jones, … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572529
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Short-term wholesale funding and systemic risk : a global CoVaR approach
Lopez-Espinosa, German; Moreno, Antonio; Rubia, Antonio; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572535