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The paper applies two commonly used methods in the literature to estimate the shadow economy in Malta, the Currency …
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In recent years the housing market in Malta has been characterised by significant demand and supply developments … reflecting strong economic and population growth. While the determinants of house prices in Malta have long been studied and … paper uses information from the Estate Agency Rent Survey to construct a proxy for private sector rents in Malta. Using this …
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This paper proposes a sectoral extension to STREAM, the Bank's main macroeconometric model. The extension documented in this paper borrows heavily from linking integration strategies prevalent in literature. The approach utilised here however, differs in two main ways when compared to existing...
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study also highlights pitfalls in the timing of recessions in Malta, relating to problems in the estimation of national …
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This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … gains and resource reallocation. Real labour productivity growth in Malta averaged 1.2% between 2000 and 2019, double that …
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specific to Malta. To do this, we carried out 32 interviews with individuals who have a good or excellent level of expertise in … study is a relevant contributor to future derisking to be conducted in Malta and serves as a benchmark for further studies …. Moreover, this research project accentuates the need for increased awareness, knowledge and expertise of derisking in Malta …
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This paper outlines a stress testing framework for the household sector in Malta based on micro data. The analysis …
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nineteenth century. Malta, which became a British colony in 1814, did indeed become an early free trader. However, she failed to … grain in Malta were therefore not protectionist, but rather for revenue purposes, in contrast to the UK Corn Laws. Taxing an …
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The paper consolidates the summarised financial statements of the main banks operating in Malta during the year 2002 …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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