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Accounting Challenges for Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs) in Developing Countries

Terkper, Seth E. - 2008

fiscal and financial accounting obligations. SARAs are legal entities, such as a service or a department, which are required … to prepare accrual records that may diverge from a treasury''s cash accounting records. Their records reflect revenues … generated; budget funds for generating the revenues; and material programs administered for other agencies. The accounting …

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Instruments of debtstruction : a new database of interwar debt

End, Nicolas; Marinkov, Marina; Miryugin, Fedor - 2019

We construct a new, comprehensive instrument-level database of sovereign debt for 18 advanced and emerging countries over the period 1913-46. The database contains data on amounts outstanding for some 3,800 individual debt instruments as well as associated qualitative information, including...

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The Economic Performance Index (EPI) : an intuitive indicator for assessing a country's economic performance dynamics in an historical perspective

Khramov, Vadim; Ridings Lee, John - 2013

Existing economic indicators and indexes assess economic activity but no single indicator measures the general macro-economic performance of a nation, state, or region in a methodologically simple and intuitive way. This paper proposes a simple, yet informative metric called the Economic...

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Central banking in Latin America : from the gold standard to the golden years

Jácome, Luis Ignacio - 2015

This paper provides a brief historical journey of central banking in Latin America to shed light on the debate about monetary policy in the post-global financial crisis period. The paper distinguishes three periods in Latin America’s central bank history: the early years, when central banks...

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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...

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Labor market flexibility and unemployment : new empirical evidence of static and dynamic effects

Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012

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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...

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Short-term wholesale funding and systemic risk : a global CoVaR approach

Lopez-Espinosa, German; Moreno, Antonio; Rubia, Antonio; … - 2012

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Central bank credit to the government : what can we learn from international practices?

Jácome, Luis Ignacio; Matamoros-Indorf, Marcela; … - 2012

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Foreign banks : trends, impact and financial stability

Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - 2012

This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...

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