Designing appropriate governance structures for an international financial institution such as the IMF is difficult …, because steps to enhance the legitimacy of such an institution through constraints on its decision-making process may affect … its operational efficiency. Potential trade-offs between legitimacy and efficiency exist for any public institution but …

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), financial technology has been growing rapidly and is on the agenda of many …

decouple via 'preferential attachment' - id est by aligning themselves with the hub they trade most with. All global technology …

Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the … fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems on economic …

The stylized facts of government finance in the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial countries show that revenues lag real …

finance …

, they are largely used to reduce domestic financing, with little evidence that they are used to finance a larger deficit …