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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions
Macunovich, Diane - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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Debt and financial crises
Koh, Wee Chian; Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, … - 2020
Emerging market and developing economies have experienced recurrent episodes of rapid debt accumulation over the past fifty years. This paper examines the consequences of debt accumulation using a three-pronged approach: an event study of debt accumulation episodes in 100 emerging market and...
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Global corporate debt during crises : implications of switching borrowing across markets
Cortina, Juan J.; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2020
This paper studies how crises prompted firms to switch borrowing across markets, impacting the amount borrowed, maturity, and currency denomination at the firm and aggregate levels. Using data on worldwide debt issuance from advanced and emerging economies, the paper shows that firms shifted...
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Can this time be different? : policy options in times of rising debt
Kose, M. Ayhan; Nagle, Peter; Ohnsorge, Franziska; … - 2020
crises when they do occur. These include sound debt management, strong monetary and fiscal frameworks, and robust bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230790
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121741
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Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession : An International Perspective
Bargain, Olivier - 2014
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...
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After the Crisis?
Zoellick, Robert B. - 2009
Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the implications of the 2009 financial upheaval that … is changing our world. He addressed the following: (i) what are the perceptions and realities of power after this crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645156
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A Decade After the Global Recession : Lessons and Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2019
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the 2009 global recession. Most emerging market and developing economies weathered the global recession relatively well. However, following a short-lived initial rebound in activity in 2010, the global economy and, especially, emerging market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646707
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Fiscal Rules in Times of Crisis
Bandaogo, Mahama Samir - 2020
As governments around the world struggle to piece together the most effective fiscal response to counter the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647392
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Crises, What Crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2021
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
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