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, innovations, and the advance of human knowledge - the rate of growth of capacity has slowed. [...] …
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, innovations, and the advance of human knowledge-the rate of growth of capacity has slowed. The past quarter century witnessed the …
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development and growth. The financial system, however, is also subject to boom and bust cycles and fragility, with negative … literature – the finance and growth literature, the literature on financial fragility, and the politics and finance literature …
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An asset bubble relaxes collateral constraints and increases borrowing by credit-constrained agents. At the same time, as the bubble deflates when constraints start binding, it amplifies downturns. We show analytically and quantitatively that the macroprudential policy should optimally respond...
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This paper examines volatility spillovers from changes in the size of the balance sheets of the Federal Reserve (FED) and European Central Bank (ECB) to emerging market economies (EMEs) from 2003 to 2014. We find that EME bond markets are most susceptible to positive volatility spillovers from...
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We offer retrospective and prospective assessments of the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness research program, combined with personal recollections of its development. Its centerpiece in many respects is Diebold and Yilmaz (2014), around which our discussion is organized.
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This paper investigates the linkage between social protection and economic resilience. Does social protection have an impact on income? What role do social protection policies play in strengthening a society's capacity to overcome economic hardships? The recent crisis has brought these questions...
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This study investigates the impact of the current financial crisis on Canada's potential GDP growth. Using a simple … accounting framework to decompose trend GDP growth into changes in capital, labor services and total factor productivity, we find … a sizeable drop in Canadian potential growth in the short term. The estimated decline of about 1 percentage point …
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A detailed analysis of all crises (we shall describe them, with some qualification, as ‘systemic crises') exceeds the scope of the present article. Here, we shall highlight only some of their common features. What they have in common has nothing to do with the extent of the decline in...
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Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With …
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