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-oriented regulatory policies and competition in banking and insurance.<P>Régulation prudentielle et concurrence sur les marchés financiers …This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to … selected stability and competition outcomes in these sectors. Based on survey information on financial market regulation …
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Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to...
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finance coupled with high informality, costly insolvency procedures, skilled labour shortages and weak competition have … competition in financial markets by reducing information asymmetries and switching costs for bank customers and strengthening … competition enforcement. As capital markets are shallow compared to other euro area countries, listing of large state …
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This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of...
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This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444720
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …
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given its geographic location. Reforms introduced in the past two years, including those to promote competition and … education, infrastructure, financial development, the rule of law, as well as a lack of competition come out in various studies … the current recession and longer-term growth. This can be achieved by increasing competition, especially in network …
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The Mexican banking crisis of 1994/95 necessitated a major government rescue operation - estimated to have cost about … financial system has markedly improved, as shown by indicators of the solidity and profitability of the banking sector. This has … and/or acquisitions. Nevertheless, several challenges remain. The banking sector is still relatively inefficient and the …
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better public sector performance. The paper concludes by proposing policy measures to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency …
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In most OECD countries, public spending rose steadily as a share of GDP over the past decades to the mid-1990s, but this trend has since abated. The spending pressures stemming from the continued expansion of social programmes have been partly compensated by transient or one-off factors....
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