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This paper looks at the role and design of regulatory reform institutions in developing countries. These institutions … and by promoting the regulatory reform agenda; and 4) Ad hoc institutions for regulatory reform, established to launch …: section one briefly reviews the theoretical debate and literature about the role of institutions in facilitating higher …

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Trade barriers in government procurement

Mulabdic, Alen; Rotunno, Lorenzo - In: The economics of deep trade agreements, (pp. 99-106). 2021

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Global Trade Watch 2017 : Trade Defies Policy Uncertainty-Will It Last?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

Trade rebounded in 2017, with trade volume growing at 4.3 percent in 2017 - the fastest rate in 6 years. The recovery of trade is not limited to a few regions but is widespread, suggesting that we may be at a turning point. The largest contributions to global trade growth have come from East...

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Gross capital flows by banks, corporates, and sovereigns

Avdjiev, Stefan; Hardy, Bryan; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2018

This paper constructs a new dataset of quarterly capital flows by sector and establishes four facts. First, the co-movement of capital inflows and outflows is driven by banks. Second, procyclicality of capital inflows is driven by banks and corporates, whereas sovereigns' external liabilities...

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Assessing the international comovement of equity returns

Abate, Girum Dagnachew; Servén, Luis - 2018

The international comovement of equity returns has been viewed as reflecting either pervasive common shocks or local linkages between countries. This paper brings these perspectives together by assessing the comovement of equity returns in a dynamic model that allows for both common factors and...

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Regulatory Quality and Competition Policy

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

protecting consumers through economic regulation. Part two of this paper considers institutions and processes for implementing …

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Making It Work : 'RIA Light' for Developing Countries

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

This report is an output of the Better Regulation for Growth Program between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and IC, the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group. The reports identifies a set of minimum...

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Investing across Borders 2010 : Indicators of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in 87 Economies

World Bank (contributor); … - International Finance Corporation - 2010

consulting firms), investment promotion institutions, chambers of commerce, and other expert respondents in each of the countries …

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Adding space to the international business cycle

Abate, Girum Dagnachew; Servén, Luis - 2019

Growth fluctuations exhibit substantial synchronization across countries, which has been viewed as reflecting a global business cycle driven by shocks with worldwide reach, or spillovers resulting from local real and/or financial linkages between countries. This paper brings these two...

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Swept by the tide? : the international comovement of capital flows

Lafuerza, Luis F.; Servén, Luis - 2019

This paper assesses the international comovement of gross capital flows in a setting simultaneously encompassing aggregate inflows and outflows. It uses as empirical framework a multilevel latent factor model, implemented on flow data for a large sample of countries over more than three decades....

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