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Pension Risk and Risk-Based Supervision in Defined Contribution Pension Funds
Randle, Tony - 2017
Defined contribution pension systems have faced criticism in the wake of the financial and economic crisis for not delivering adequate and sustainable pension incomes at retirement. Much of the problem has centered around the misalignment of pension fund management companies and the interests of...
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Anatomy of Credit-Less Recoveries
Corrado, Luisa - 2018
The recovery from the global crisis that erupted in 2007 shows that the decoupling between real and financial variables during the business cycle can lead to negative and long-lasting consequences for the economy. A key feature of the past global crisis in many countries is that the recovery in...
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What Drives the Development of the Insurance Sector? An Empirical Analysis Based on a Panel of Developed and Developing Countries
Feyen, Erik - 2017
The insurance sector can play a critical role in financial and economic development. By reducing uncertainty and the … with long investment horizons, insurance companies can contribute to the provision of long-term instruments to finance … corporate investment and housing. There is evidence of a causal relationship between insurance sector development and economic …
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What Regulatory Frameworks are More Conducive to Mobile Banking? Empirical Evidence from Findex Data
Gutierrez, Eva - 2017
. The authors construct an index that measures the existence of laws and regulation that support mobile banking activity for … laws and regulation in supporting mobile banking. The analysis finds that a supporting regulatory framework is associated …
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Political Economy of Public Policies : Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
Anderson, Kym - 2017
The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transformational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This paper reviews and synthesizes...
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The Doing Business Indicators, Economic Growth and Regulatory Reform
Hanusch, Marek - 2017
Improving the investment climate is among the top priorities in development. The World Bank Group's Doing Business …
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Innovations in Globalized Regulation : Opportunities and Challenges
Levy, Brian - 2017
emerging institutional innovations in globalized regulation. The framework highlights two dimensions of effectiveness -- the … for three distinctive approaches to globalized regulation: i) Government-centric approaches, including treaties, extra …-territorial regulation and government networks -- seven examples are assessed in the paper. ii) Civil regulation, including both joint …
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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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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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The Impact of the Financial Crisis on New Firm Registration
Klapper, Leora F. - 2017
The authors use panel data on the number of new firm registrations in 95 countries to study the impact of the business environment and 2008 financial crisis on new firm registration. The data show that more dynamic formal business creation occurs in countries that provide entrepreneurs with a...
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