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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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A TIP against the COVID-19 pandemic

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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Financial concerns and the marginal propensity to consume in COVID times : evidence from UK survey data

Albuquerque, Bruno; Green, Georgina - 2022

We study how household concerns about their future financial situation may affect the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a representative survey of UK households to compute the MPC from a hypothetical transfer of pound 500. We find that household...

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Consumption effects of mortgage payment holidays : evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic

Albuquerque, Bruno; Varadi, Alexandra - 2022

We use UK transaction-level data during the Covid-19 pandemic to study whether mortgage payment holidays (PH) can act as a mechanism for smoothing household consumption following negative aggregate shocks. Our results suggest that mortgage PH were accessed by both households with pre-existing...

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Digitalization and resilience : firm-level evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abidi, Nordine; El Herradi, Mehdi; Sakha, Sahra - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented shock to firms with adverse consequences for existing productive capacities. At the same time, digitalization has increasingly been touted as a key pathway for mitigating economic losses from the pandemic, and we expect firms facing digital...

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Emerging markets : prospects and challenges

Gudmundsson, Tryggvi; Kljuev, Vladimir Vladimirovič; … - 2022

This article documents recent developments in emerging markets in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, assesses their prospects and challenges, and discusses appropriate policy settings for the medium term. It argues that EM policymakers' ability to grapple with an incomplete and uneven...

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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries

Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022

We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...

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How does the Repo market behave under stress? : evidence from the COVID-19 crisis

Hüser, Anne-Caroline; Lepore, Caterina; Veraart, Luitgard - 2021

We examine how the repo market operates during liquidity stress by applying network analysis to novel transaction-level data of the overnight gilt repo market including the COVID-19 crisis. During this crisis, the repo network becomes more connected, with most institutions relying on existing...

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The COVID-19 impact on corporate leverage and financial fragility

Haque, Sharjil Muktafi; Varghese, Richard - 2021

We study the impact of the COVID-19 recession on capital structure of publicly listed U.S. firms. Our estimates suggest leverage (Net Debt/Asset) decreased by 5.3 percentage points from the pre-shock mean of 19.6 percent, while debt maturity increased moderately. This de-leveraging effect is...

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Commercial real estate and macrofinancial stability during COVID-19

Deghi, Andrea; Mok, Junghwan; Tsuruga, Tomohiro - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has severely shocked the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, which could have important implications for macro-financial stability going forward because of the large size of the sector and its strong interconnectedness with the real economy. Using a novel...

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