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This paper compares different fiscal integration schemes on the basis of their ability to finance public investments … and resilience to debt distress and contagion. Complete integration schemes, where a central authority chooses the level … to incomplete integration schemes, where member governments choose public investments unilaterally. As a result …
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Using micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds, this paper analyzes how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper shows that the volatility of mutual fund investments is quantitatively driven by investors...
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relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …
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transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …
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relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …
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economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …
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This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during the 2008-2010 global financial crisis. A difference-in-differences approach is used to isolate a "credit channel" impact of the global financial crisis on foreign direct...
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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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This paper reviews the factors that should guide the design of private funded pensions to create a complete pension system alongside a notional defined contribution -- or public -- component. It argues that a mix of public and private pensions is the most effective option to deliver the best...
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integrating financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s, using bilateral data on portfolio investments, syndicated bank …, theregion is increasingly more connected with itself and with the rest of the world, even relative to GDP. Second, although …
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