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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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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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Ladies First? Firm-Level Evidence on the Labor Impacts of the East Asian Crisis
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2017
In a crisis, do employers place the burden of adjustment disproportionately on female employees? Relying on household and labor force data, existing studies of the distributional impact of crises have not been able to address this question. This paper uses Indonesia's census of manufacturing...
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Oil Price Volatility, Economic Growth and the Hedging Role of Renewable Energy
Rentschler, Jun E. - 2017
This paper investigates the adverse effects of oil price volatility on economic activity and the extent to which countries can hedge against such effects by using renewable energy. By considering the Realized Volatility of oil prices, rather than following the standard approach of considering...
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Containing Systemic Risk : Paradigm-Based Perspectives on Regulatory Reform
de la Torre, Augusto - 2017
; introducing a truly systemic liquidity regulation that moves away from a purely idiosyncratic focus on maturity mismatches; and …
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Regulatory Arbitrage and Cross-Border Syndicated Loans
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2019
-border syndicated loan market. Lending provided through a foreign subsidiary is subject to subsidiary-country regulation and … stringent bank regulation and supervision consistent with regulatory arbitrage, but that they prefer to originate loans in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859502
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973885
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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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