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Cheap but flighty : how global imbalances create financial fragility

Ahnert, Toni; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2015

We analyze how a wealth shift to emerging countries may lead to instability in developed countries. Investors exposed to expropriation risk are willing to pay a safety premium to invest in countries with good property rights. Domestic intermediaries compete for such cheap funding by carving out...

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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009

This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...

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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

Chen, Shaohua - 2017

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

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Worldwide Governance Indicators Project : Answering the Critics

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2016

The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between 1996 and 2005, have become widely used among policymakers and academics. They have also attracted some explicit written criticisms. In this short paper the authors synthesize...

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Governance Matters V : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators for 1996-2005

Kaufmann, Daniel - 2016

The authors report on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until end-2005: voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory...

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Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Syndicated Loans

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2019

This paper investigates how international regulatory and institutional differences affect lending in the cross-border syndicated loan market. Lending provided through a foreign subsidiary is subject to subsidiary-country regulation and institutional arrangements. Multinational banks' choices...

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A Socioeconomic Disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

Dsouza, Ritika - 2019

the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …

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Determinants of International Buyout Investments

Aldatmaz, Serdar - 2020

Using a comprehensive and proprietary data set on international private equity activity, this paper studies the determinants of buyout investments across 61 countries and 19 industries over 1990-2017. The study finds evidence that macroeconomic conditions, development of stock and credit...

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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics

Artuc, Erhan - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …

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Bank Regulation and Supervision Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis

Anginer, Deniz - 2020

This paper summarizes the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey. The paper explores …

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