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Anatomy and impact of export promotion agencies

Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da; Lederman, Daniel; … - 2018

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world

Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...

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Bank capital and risk in Europe and Central Asia ten years after the crisis

Anginer, Deniz; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Mare, Davide … - 2020

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 capital ratios, than they were prior to the crisis....

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Three macroeconomic trends around the onset of armed conflict in developing economies

Lederman, Daniel; Rojas, Claudio J. - 2018

cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to …

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Inequality and economic growth : the role of initial income

Brückner, Markus; Lederman, Daniel - 2018

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

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Regulatory arbitrage and cross-border syndicated loans

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Horváth, Bálint; Huizinga, Harry - 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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Bank regulation and supervision ten years after the global financial crisis

Anginer, Deniz; Bertay, Ata Can; Cull, Robert J.; … - 2019

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

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Data transparency and long-run growth

Islam, Asif Mohammed; Lederman, Daniel - 2020

For centuries states have engaged in collecting data to serve various interests. In modern times, a data gap has emerged between developing and developed economies, with the latter having more advanced data systems. The authors explore the effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a...

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