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Governance of Securities Regulators : A Framework
Pratt, Richard - 2017
This paper reviews the published work on the governance of regulatory authorities in order to identify the basic governance standards that apply and some of the factors that affect the implementation of good governance. There are four pillars of good regulatory governance: independence,...
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Rethinking the State's Role in Finance
Čihák, Martin - 2017
The global financial crisis has given greater credence to the idea that active state involvement in the financial sector can be helpful for stability and development. There is now evidence that, for example, lending by state-owned banks has helped in mitigating the impact of the crisis on...
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Interest Rate Caps Around the World : Still Popular, But a Blunt Instrument
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele - 2017
countries around the world currently use some form of interest rate caps on loans -- all with varying degrees of effects …
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The Effects of Financial Development on Foreign Direct Investment
Desbordes, Rodolphe - 2017
This paper examines how financial development influences foreign direct investment. The direct and indirect sector-specific effects that source countries' financial development and destination countries' financial development can have on foreign direct investment are first identified in a...
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring
Ceballos, Francisco - 2017
transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and … growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975170
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Countercyclical Financial Regulation
Ren, Haocong - 2017
The global financial crisis has focused much attention on procyclicality, particularly in the context of a macroprudential framework. This paper reviews a set of prudential measures that can be adopted by national authorities to deal with procyclicality and discusses issues in designing and...
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Banking Flows and Financial Crisis -- Financial Interconnectedness and Basel Iii Effects
Ghosh, Swati - 2017
This paper examines the factors that determine banking flows from advanced economies to emerging markets. In addition to the usual determinants of capital flows in terms of global push and local pull factors, it examines the role of bilateral factors, such as growth differentials and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975818
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Financial Liberalization and Allocative Dfficiency of Capital
Kukenova, Madina - 2017
Financial liberalization may have a positive effect on growth not only through the increase in the quantity of the available funds, but also through a more efficient allocation of resources across firms and sectors. Despite this intuitive appeal, there is little empirical evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975986
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Capital Control Liberalization and Stock Market Development
Belli, Paolo - 2017
The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …
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Financial Sector Policy in Practice : Benchmarking Financial Sector Strategies Around the World
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele - 2017
paper examines and rates financial sector strategies around the world based on how well they formulate development targets …
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