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Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing
Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003
Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...
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Cooperation in international banking supervision
Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004
This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own country. The communication between the supervisors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636539
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Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint : Where do we stand?
Bourguignon, François; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; … - 2008
poverty eradication made by the International Community in the UN Millennium Declaration. They include halving world poverty … and hunger by 2015, as well as reaching universal primary education, reducing under-5 and maternal mortality by two thirds … access, lessen the debt burden, channel financial resources and provide development assistance to the developing world, which …
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Public investment, transport infrastructure and growth in Poland
Rutkowski, Aleksander - 2009
This Country Focus discusses the relation between public investment and economic growth in Poland. Theoretical and empirical work has shown that improvements in the quantity and quality of public infrastructure have a positive impact on growth in the medium and, possibly, in the long run. The...
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Upswing in Germany: how long will it last?
Jansen, Heinz; Stierle, Michael H. - 2007
Following several years of low growth Germany is presently enjoying a relatively strong recovery. With unemployment falling at record speed and fiscal consolidation progressing, the upswing is set to continue in spite of uncertainties surrounding the VAT increase of January 2007. This Country...
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Liberalisation and development of the Czech financial sector: more to come
Kay, Neil - 2007
The Czech financial sector has changed dramatically since transition. In fifteen years, it has developed from a state-owned mono-bank into a privatised bank-based financial system with developing capital and private equity markets. This country focus analyses the development of the financial...
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Comparing economic dynamics in the EU and CEE accession countries
Süppel, Ralph - 2003
This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...
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Finance and growth in the EU
De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003
This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...
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Bond market inflation expectations and longer-term trends in broad monetary growth and inflation in industrial countries, 1880 - 2001
Dewald, William G. - 2003
u0093Bond Market Inflation Expectation and Longer-term Trends in Broad Monetary Growth and Inflation in Industrial Countries, 1880-2001u0094 by William G. Dewald, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Ohio State University and Former Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Annual...
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Die Wirtschaftsaussichten 2002
Begg, Iain; Le Cacheux, Jacques; Wessels, Wolfgang - 2002
The study analyses macroeconomic policy-making in the European Union and the role of the European Parliament in it. There are three parts to the study. The first is concerned with policy-making procedures. The second analyses the implementation of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPGs) and...
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