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guidelines-a tiered approach to regulation and prudential supervision. The model focuses on risk-taking activities of … gives particular attention to the thresholds at which intermediation activities become subject to prudential regulation and …
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of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America … determinants of growth in Internet connections and use). Regulation will work by cutting costs. Cost cutting will require that …
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The question of the most effective order of reforming state-owned enterprises has been hotly debated over the years. In the early 1990s, many western advisers encouraged Eastern European countries, and the former Soviet Union, to privatize firms quickly under the assumption that market...
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sets. This can be followed by advancing development of more sophisticated solvency regulation, increased use of technical …
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Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply that increased openness is associated with a...
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Infrastructure industries-including telecommunications, electricity, water, and gas-underwent massive structural changes in the 1990s. During that decade, hundreds of privatization transactions valued at billions of dollars were completed in these sectors in developing and transition economies....
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with its principles and prudent risk management, and facilitate its regulation. …
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Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, the authors study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms. They focus on regulations governing entry, although they also examine the effects of a developed financial sector, a well-trained...
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The author looks at the development and regulation of the fixed income securities market in the United States. The U … fixed income market regulation in the United States, discussing both primary and secondary market regulation. She also looks … and has played an important role in the effectiveness of regulation. The author concludes that the fact that the U …
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The Jordanian insurance market has been free from extensive state ownership and pervasive premium, product, investment, and reinsurance controls. However, these positive features have been marred by the licensing of a large number of private companies, often on political rather than professional...
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