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We propose a small open economy model where agents borrow internationally and invest in liquid foreign assets to insure against liquidity shocks, which temporarily shut out the economy of short-term credit markets. Due to the presence of a pecuniary externality individual agents borrow too much...
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Introduction. The investigation is devoted to the issue of a national financial stability and economic growth. The …
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We investigate for Germany the positive correlation between the corporate savings glut in the non-financial corporate sector and the current account surplus from a capital account perspective. By employing sign restrictions our findings suggest that mostly labor market, world demand and...
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decade and have important policy implications for monetary and financial stability. …
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While illicit capital flight is a major concern of policy makers in developing countries, there is only little research on the possible link between capital flight and development aid. In this paper, we address the issue for Nepal, a stereotypical financially-closed developing economy that is...
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The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking...
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. Until recently however this did not extend to a consideration of the role of personal indebtedness in explaining the … indebtedness and theft crimes. We also extend the existing empirical literature by building on recent extensions of the Becker … motivating the personal indebtedness and theft crime relationship. There has been a large increase in personal debt in the past …
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