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Trade policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis : evidence from a new data set

Evenett, Simon J.; Fiorini, Matteo; Fritz, Johannes; … - 2020

This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid...

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Global financial development report 2019/2020 : bank regulation and supervision a decade after the global financial crisis

World Bank (Washington, District of Columbia) - 2020

oversight of banks. The Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 is the fifth in a World Bank series. The report also …"Over a decade has passed since the collapse of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers marked the onset of the … troubles, and particularly the impact of reforms on market discipline and bank capital. Countries should design and enforce …

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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers

World Bank Group - 2019

Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...

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Cities, Crowding, and the Coronavirus : Predicting Contagion Risk Hotspots

Bhardwaj, Gaurav - 2020

Today, over 4 billion people around the world-more than half the global population-live in cities. By 2050, with the … urban population more than doubling its current size, nearly 7 of 10 people in the world will live in cities. Evidence from …

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A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space

Kose, M Ayhan - 2017

This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...

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Before and after the Global Financial Crisis : Evaluating the Caribbean's Synchronization with Global Engines of Growth

Kouame, Auguste - 2016

In spite of the United States' recovery, most Caribbean nations are still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. This paper examines this slow growth recovery through the analysis of how the Caribbean's growth relates to that of key drivers of the global economy. The...

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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Firms Capital Structure

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2015

systems, weaker information-sharing mechanisms, shallower banking systems, and more restrictions on bank entry. In contrast …

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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 … 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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Growth of global corporate debt : main facts and policy challenges

Abraham, Facundo; Cortina, Juan J.; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2020

This paper surveys the literature to document the main stylized facts, risks, and policy challenges related to the expansion of global nonfinancial corporate debt after the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Nonfinancial corporate debt steadily increased after the crisis, especially in emerging...

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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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