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effects from cross-border bank takeovers with those of cross-border lending by banks located overseas, which in most cases …
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New security designs, improvements in computer telecommunications technology and advances in the theory of finance have led to revolutionary changes in the structure of financial markets and institutions. This paper provides a functional perspective on the dynamics of institutional change and...
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This paper assesses the potential impact of FinTech on the finance industry, focusing on financial stability and access to services. I document first that financial services remain surprisingly expensive, which explains the emergence of new entrants. I then argue that the current regulatory...
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I analyze whether banks are efficient at allocating resources across intermediation activities. Competition between lenders means that resources are needed to draw borrowers into credit matches. At the same time, imperfect information between lenders and borrowers means that resources are also...
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Regulation of economic activity is ubiquitous around the world, yet standard theories predict it should be rather … heavily regulated. It also makes predictions, both across activities and across jurisdictions, for the efficiency of …
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attributed to a single dimension of underlying firm heterogeneity, efficiency. Conditional on entry, underlying efficiency …
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This paper evaluates the political economy and structural factors explaining the collection efficiency of the Value … Added Tax [VAT]. We consider the case where the collection efficiency is determined by the probability of audit and by the … penalty on underpaying. Implementation lags imply that the present policy maker determines the efficiency of the tax system …
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This paper estimates the efficiency consequences of interactions between nominal tax systems and inflation in open … capital movement and influencing domestic and foreign tax receipts, saving, and investment. The efficiency costs of inflation …
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, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and …
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This paper uses firm-level information to evaluate how crises are transmitted internationally. It constructs a new data set of financial statistics, industry information, geographic data, and stock returns for over 10,000 companies in 46 countries to test what types of firms were most affected...
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