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This paper introduces a new global database and a policy classification framework that records the financial sector policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken a diverse array of measures to mitigate financial...
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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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This paper examines changes in bank capital and capital regulations since the global financial crisis, in the Europe … and Central Asia region. It shows that banks in Europe and Central Asia are better capitalized, as measured by regulatory … of the definition of Tier 1 capital and reduction in risk-weights. Further analyses show that bank risk in Europe and …
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The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...
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