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interest on the drivers of remittance costs. This paper delved deeply into the remittances ecosystem and found a very complex …There has been a global push to decrease the cost of remittances since at least 2009, which has culminated with its … inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Despite this effort and the emergence of new business models, remittance …
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Interest rate caps, despite their intended objective of broadening financial inclusion, can have undesirable effects on financial inclusion under certain conditions. This paper examines the effect of microfinance-loan interest rate caps on financial inclusion in Cambodia. Based on a...
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major source of funding for banks through the shadow banking system. Asset managers are dominant sources of demand for non …-M2 types of money and serve as source collateral ?mines'' for the shadow banking system. Banks receive funding through … the re-use of pledged collateral ?mined'' from asset managers. Accounting for this, the size of the shadow banking system …
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We model an economy in which domestic banks and firms face incentive constraints, as in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997). Firms borrow from banks and uninformed investors, and can collude with banks to reduce the intensity of monitoring. We study the general equilibrium effects of capital flows...
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This paper investigates the potential relationships between financial structures and economic outcomes. The empirical results that withstand a battery of methods suggest that some financial intermediation structures are likely to be more closely related to positive economic outcomes than others....
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Banks across the Caribbean have lost important Correspondent Banking Relationships (CBRs). The macroeconomic impact has …
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This paper develops an open-economy DSGE model with an optimizing banking sector to assess the role of capital flows …
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