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Beyond LIBOR: a primer on the new benchmark rates

Schrimpf, Andreas; Sushko, Vladyslav - In: BIS quarterly review : international banking and … (2019), pp. 29-52

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Influence of real exchange rate on the finance-growth nexus in the West African region

Ehigiamusoe, Kizito Uyi; Hooi Hooi Lean - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/23, pp. 1-21

This study examines the moderating effects of the real exchange rate and its volatility on the finance-growth nexus in the West African region. It also determines the marginal effects of financial development on economic growth at various levels of the real exchange rates and its volatility. The...

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Productivity and economic growth in the European Union : impact of investment in research and development

Nekrep, Andreja; Strašek, Sebastjan; Boršič, Darja - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 64 (2018) 1, pp. 18-27

This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth. Our analysis confirms the link between expenditure for research and development (expressed in % of GDP) and labour productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on...

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Arab countries between winter and spring : where democracy shock goes next!

Abdel-Latif, Hany; Mishra, Tapas; Staneva, Anita - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/20, pp. 1-19

since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our … rest of the Arab World. We find that high and upper-middle income countries are immune to democracy shocks in Egypt …

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Fiscal space and increasing fiscal resilience

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - 2019

The paper compares fiscal cyclicality across regions and countries from 1960 to 2016. It finds that more than half of 170 countries analyzed in seven regions had, in more recent years, limited fiscal space, and that their fiscal policy was either cyclical or procyclical. This was particularly...

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Does oil price drive world food prices? : evidence from linear and nonlinear ARDL modeling

Zmami, Mourad; Ben Salha, Ousama - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/12, pp. 1-18

The macroeconomic outcomes of oil price fluctuations have been at the forefront of the debate among economists, financial analysts and policymakers over the last decades. Among others, the oil price-food price nexus has particularly received a great deal of attention. While an abundant body of...

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Climate change and economic resilience through urban and cultural heritage : the case of emerging small island developing states economies

Allam, Zaheer; Jones, David - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/62, pp. 1-23

While the topic of climate change is of global importance and has global consequences, the context is far more dangerous for emerging economies, including small island developing states (SIDS) and their coastal cities. The literature supports the need for robustness in infrastructural dimensions...

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Are there spillovers from China on the global energy-growth nexus? : evidence from four world regions

Marques, Luís Miguel; Fuinhas, José Alberto; Marques, … - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/59, pp. 1-19

This paper analyses China's energy consumption and economic growth spillover effects on four world regions: (i) America … aggregated time series by world region, from 1970 to 2016, and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach were used. The … the conservation hypothesis. Additionally, China's spillover effects on the world energy-growth nexus are essentially a …

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Coups, regime transitions, and institutional change

Bennett, Daniel L.; Bjørnskov, Christian; Gohmann, … - 2019

Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific policies change and the consequences of these changes nevertheless remains largely unknown. Change after a coup or transition implies that some form of...

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Trade, institutional quality and income : empirical evidence for sub-Saharan Africa

Huy Quang Doan - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/48, pp. 1-23

This paper looks at how trade liberalization and institutional quality influence real income. Previous evidence has provided mixed results, and we find that indicators representing trade liberalization have been very weak. By using strongly balanced panel data of 45 Sub-Saharan African countries...

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