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Does Saving Increase the Supply of Credit? A Critique of Loanable Funds Theory

Lindner, Fabian - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung … - 2013

economists identify saving and the credit supply by interpreting the macroeconomic saving-investment identity as a budget … supply of credit and thus more funds to be invested by firms for investment. The paper shows that proponents of this theory …

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Saving does not finance Investment: Accounting as an indispensableguide to economic theory

Lindner, Fabian - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung … - 2012

argue that there is much confusion about key macroeconomic concepts like saving, investment and finance. This confusion is … best summarised in the statement "saving finances investment". After clearly defining the accounting relationships between … lending, financial saving and physical investment it will be shown that this is a nonsense statement. The theory behind it …

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Investor Protection and Corporate Governance: Firm-level Evidence across Latin America

Bebczuk, Ricardo N.; Silva, André L. Carvalhal da; … - Inter-American Development Bank

'Investor Protection and Corporate Governance' analyzes the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and valuation. Using unique datasets gathered at the firm-level--the first such data in the region--and results from a homogeneous corporate governance questionnaire, the book examines...

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Government Debt and Economic Growth

Calderón, César; Fuentes, J. Rodrigo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

The growth prospects of a nation are stymied by the burden of government debt. This study has two goals: first, it tests whether public debt hinders growth; and, second, it explores whether economic policy ameliorates this effect. A large panel data of countries for 1970-2010 reveal a negative...

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Banking Crises and Financial Integration

Caballero, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper explores whether the level of financial integration of banks in a country increases the incidence of systemic banking crises. The paper uses a de facto proxy for financial integration based on network statistics of banks participating in the global market of interbank syndicated...

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Capital Flows: Issues and Policies

Montiel, Peter J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper presents an analytical overview of recent contributions to the literature on the policy implications of capital flows in emerging and developing countries, focusing specifically on capital inflows as well as on the links between inflows and subsequent capital-flow reversals. The...

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Capital Requirements for Latin American Banks in Relation to their Market Risks: The Relevance of the Basle 1996 Amendment to Latin America

Powell, Andrew; Balzarotti, Verónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

Banks' market or 'trading' risks have increased noticeably over the past years, largely as a result of the growth of liquid assets on banks' balance sheets and the increase in banks' off-balance sheet activities. Well-publicized bank failures and significant capital losses have focussed further...

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Foreign currency exposure and hedging in Australia

Atkin, Tim; Harris, Jacob - In: Bulletin / Reserve Bank of Australia (2023), pp. 86-95

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Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies

Beato, Paulina; Vives, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This working paper discusses infrastructure investment in Latin America at the subnational, private level and …

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Raising Investment in Brazil

Arnold, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential … reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation. A shortage of … domestic saving appears to be a major constraint to higher investment rates in Brazil. Due to high levels of current …

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