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Finance, Growth, and Inequality
Levine, Ross - 2022
Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the functioning of financial systems on economic growth, income distribution, and poverty. In this...
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Financial variables and macroeconomic forecast errors
Barnes, Michelle L.; Olivei, Giovanni P. - 2017 - This version: October 31, 2017
A large set of financial variables has only limited power to predict a latent factor common to the year-ahead forecast errors for real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, the unemployment rate, and Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation for three sets of professional forecasters: the Federal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817884
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Financial development : a broader perspective
Reid, Richard - 2010
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking … may be more fruitful for today's emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in … each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907303
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Causes and consequences of the financial crisis and the implications for a more resilient financial and economic system
Hein, Eckhard - 2016
The increasing dominance of finance starting in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the US and the UK, and somewhat later in other countries, was associated with two fundamental and structural processes generating the contradictions of this phase of development and finally the financial and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431645
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Financialisation, distribution, growth and crises : long-run tendencies
Hein, Eckhard; Dodig, Nina - 2014
In this paper we review the empirical and theoretical literature on the effects of changes in the relationship between the financial sector and the non-financial sectors of the economy associated with 'financialisation' on distribution, growth, instability and crises. We take a macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242861
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Financial Development : A Broader Perspective
Reid, Richard - 2011
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking … may be more fruitful for today's emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in … each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132042
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The Cost of Banking Crises : Does the Policy Framework Matter?
Levieuge, Grégory - 2019
This paper empirically investigates how the stringency of macroeconomic policy frameworks impacts the unconditional cost of banking crises. We consider monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policies. A restrictive policy framework may promote stronger banking stability, by enhancing discipline and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890687
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The Cost of Banking Crises : Does the Policy Framework Matter?
Levieuge, Grégory - 2019
This paper empirically investigates how the stringency of macroeconomic policy frameworks impacts the unconditional cost of banking crises. We consider monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policies. A restrictive policy framework may promote stronger banking stability, by enhancing discipline and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898381
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Political Booms, Currency Crises and Economic Growth
Sever, Can - 2020
This paper finds evidence that political booms, defined as the rise in governments‘ popularity, are a good predictor of currency crises, suggesting that currency crises are often “political booms gone bust” events. The result is robust to controlling for other potential predictors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824858
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Financial Innovation, Economic Growth, and the Consequences of Macroprudential Policies
Bernier, Maxence - 2019
We leverage a ‘catch-all' measure of financial innovation – research and development spending in the financial sector – to assess the net relationship between financial innovation and economic growth and evaluate the influence of macroprudential policy on this relationship. Using a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871971