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Recording Insurance Transactions in the Balance of Payments

Harper, Peter - 1995

Insurance enterprises provide services, called insurance services, to policyholders. The values of such services are … discusses the treatment of insurance services, and related transactions, in the balance of payments. A simple measure, based on … a number of assumptions, of nonlife insurance services is considered. The assumptions underlying this measure are then …

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Institutional Quality, Knightian Uncertainty, and Insurability : A Cross-Country Analysis

Erbas, S. Nuri - 2006

, financial sector depth, country risk, a measure of cost of insurance, and the World Bank governance indexes. We find that … of Knightian uncertainty. This paper correlates non-life insurance penetration in 70 countries with income level …

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E-commerce during COVID : stylized facts from 47 economies

Alcedo, Joel; Cavallo, Alberto; Dwyer, Bricklin; … - 2022

We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased more in economies with...

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Monitoring the climate impact of fiscal policy : lessons from tracking the COVID-19 response

Eltokhy, Khaled; Funke, Katja; Huang, Guohua; Kim, Yujin; … - 2021

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the … international organizations attempted to assess the "greenness" of the fiscal policy response of the world's largest economies. This …

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Global corporate stress tests : impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses

Tressel, Thierry; Ding, Xiaodan - 2021

Corporate sector vulnerabilities have been a central policy topic since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze some 17,000 publicly listed firms in a sample of 24 countries, and assess their ability to withstand shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability...

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Revisiting carbon leakage

Misch, Florian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021

This paper estimates the carbon leakage rate across countries, arguably a key parameter in the international climate policy discussion including on border carbon adjustment, but which remains subject to significant uncertainty. We propose innovations along two lines. First, we exploit recently...

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Measurement of aggregate trade restrictions and their economic effects

Estefania-Flores, Julia; Furceri, Davide; Ahmed Hannan, … - 2022

We develop a new Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions (MATR) using data from the IMF's Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. MATR is an empirical measure of how restrictive official government policy is towards the international flow of goods and services. MATR is...

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Financial regulation, climate change, and the transition to a low-carbon economy : a survey of the issues

Demekas, Dimitri G.; Grippa, Pierpaolo - 2021

There are demands on central banks and financial regulators to take on new responsibilities for supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. Regulators can indeed facilitate the reorientation of financial flows necessary for the transition. But their powers should not be overestimated....

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Reconsidering climate mitigation policy in the UK

Arregui, Nicolas; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2020

The UK has pledged to cut greenhouse gases 57 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, to be emisisons neutral by 2050, and to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Much progress has been made, but fully achieving these ambitious objectives with the current policy framework will be...

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International capital flows at the security level : evidence from the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme

Bergant, Katharina; Fidora, Michael; Schmitz, Martin - 2020

We analyse euro area investors' portfolio rebalancing during the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme at the security level. Our empirical analysis shows that euro area investors (in particular investment funds and households) actively rebalanced away from securities targeted under the Public Sector...

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