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Macroprudential Regulation of Credit Booms and Busts -- the Case of Croatia
Galac, Tomislav - 2017
Croatia employed macroprudential measures to manage credit growth and capital inflows during the boom years of the 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975817
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973597
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Financial Inclusion and the Role of the Post Office
Anson, Jose - 2017
Given their widespread presence in rural and poor areas, post offices can play a leading role in advancing financial inclusion. Yet little is known about the type of clients that post offices reach through their financial service offerings as compared with clients of traditional financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973855
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Benchmarking Financial Systems Around the World
Čihák, Martin - 2017
This paper introduces the Global Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010. The database includes measures of (a) size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (b) degree to which individuals can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974960
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Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to Early Stages of Development than Others?
Cull, Robert - 2017
investment. These findings are consistent with predictions from new structural economics. In high-income countries, labor growth … structural economics, although the analysis is unable to provide evidence that the association is causal. It finds no evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975631
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Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World : A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set
Ardic, Oya Pinar - 2017
at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group, in response … inform the policy debate. Using this database, this paper (i) counts the number of unbanked adults around the world at 56 …) discusses the state of financial inclusion mandates around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976198
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Measuring Financial Access Around the World
Kendall, Jake - 2017
estimation of the number of bank accounts in the world (6.2 billion) as well as the number of banked and unbanked individuals. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976612
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Finance and Growth : Schumpeter Might Be Right
Drebentsov, Vladimir - 2017
Joseph Schumpeter argued in 1911 that the services provided by financial intermediaries - mobilizing savings, evaluating projects, managing risk, monitoring managers, and facilitating transactions -stimulate technological innovation and economic development. The authors present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746925
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Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Growth Dynamics
Kassa, Woubet - 2018
This paper utilizes data for African countries to analyze the extent to which financial development affects the dynamics of the relationship between exchange rate flexibility and economic growth. The findings indicate that financial development exerts a positive influence on the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912272
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The State of Economics, the State of the World
Basu, Kaushik - 2017
the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with … special attention to the rise of development economics. Given the challenges faced by the global economy in recent times, and … especially since 2008, it is time for a serious evaluation of economics for policy making. The paper comments on some potential …
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