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We compare business cycle fluctuations in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Our main results are as follows: (i) African economies stand out by their macroeconomic volatility, which is is reflected in the volatility of output and other macro variables; (ii)...
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Using a comprehensive database on bank credit, covering 135 developing countries over the period 1960�2011, we identify, document, and compare the macro-economic dynamics of credit booms across low-and middle-income countries. The results suggest that while the duration and magnitude of credit...
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incompleteness-on China's housing prices. The model implies that to eradicate the root causes of the rising housing price …
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After many years of rapid expansion, China's growth is slowing to more sustainable levels and is rebalancing, with … financial markets. It finds that countries with closer trade linkages with China (Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand) and net … points in response to a decline in China's growth by 1 percentage point depending on the model used and the nature of the …
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booming sector create a misallocation of managerial talent. Using comprehensive firm-level data from China, I first provide …
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carries risks. International experience suggests that China's credit growth is on a dangerous trajectory, with increasing … risks of a disruptive adjustment and/or a marked growth slowdown. Several China-specific factors-high savings, current …
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tradable industries and that output volatility is much greater in China than in industrial economies. We find that the driving … force behind our simulation results is strongly related to the non-uniform nature of credit market imperfections in China …
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in China during the last decade, drawing upon previous analytical work and also employing the “Granger causality” test …
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This paper investigates the macroeconomic cycles China has experienced since the onset of reform in the late 1970s. It …
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