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In a situation with already elevated inflation, the war in Ukraine and the zero-covid policy in China have led to additional upward pressures on prices and reinforced the global supply chain problems. Real wages are declining in many countries, dampening personal consumption expenditures even...
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The global economy is losing steam. After a weak start in the beginning of this year, world production accelerated … 2020 world output is expected to rise by 3.4 percent. Despite the gradual global economic slowdown, capacity utilization in …
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World economic growth is moderating accompanied by a broad-based deterioration in economic sentiment. Following a … development. We expect the global economy to expand at a rate of 3.7 percent this year, followed by 3.4 next year. This is a … to expect world production to increase by 3.4 percent. The escalation of trade conflicts, the possibility of a “hard …
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World economic growth has picked up from the sluggish pace registered at the start of the year. We expect global growth …
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The global economy held up better than expected in the face of the inflation shock and the massive tightening of …
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In spring 2022, world economic growth came to a standstill amid high inflation, persistent supply bottlenecks and … economy has deteriorated further. We have, again, lowered our forecast and are now expecting global output to increase by only …
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The global economy has expanded at a moderate pace so far this year. Meanwhile, the previously pronounced differences … States lost momentum, the economy in Europe picked up noticeably after a period of stagnation. At the same time, there are … sluggish. Against this backdrop, growth in world trade in goods resumed. The moderate global economic expansion is likely to …
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This paper examines the effect of employment protection regulation on gross job flows in a sample of developed and developing countries. By implementing a differences-in-differences test we lessen the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country...
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We suggest that foreign banks may represent a trade-off for their developing country hosts. A portfolio model is developed to show that a more diversified international bank may be one of lower, overall risk and less susceptible to funding shocks but may react more to shocks that affect expected...
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This paper studies the relationship between creditor protection and credit volatility. During the negative phase of the business cycle, credit contracts more in countries with poor creditor protection. For similar shocks to business conditions, credit is more volatile in countries where...
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