This paper investigates the major drivers of the public debt growth in 184 countries. The underlying cross-country survey is conducted on the basis of the improved compilation of datasets on the central government debt for 2013. The study finds that oil abundance, economic growth rate, the share...

In this work, behavior of money multipliers for a developing country, Turkey is examined and is calculated by estimating the values of the model constructed for the purpose for the period of 1952-1972. However, model lends itself for applications covering any other period.Study includes three...

Turkish Abstract: 'Özel Çekme Hakları' deyimi baslıca iki şeyi ifade etmektedir: Birinci olarak bir 'hesap birimini' simgelemektedir. Öte yandan bir 'açık kredi' anlamına gelmektedir. Özel Çekme Hakları Para Fonu'nun bir hesap standardı olarak görülmelidir. Bunların 'kağıt...

The last decade or so has seen a mushrooming of new sovereign debt databases covering long time spans for several countries. This represents an important breakthrough for economists who have long sought to, but been unable to tackle, first-order questions such as why countries have differential...

High finance has been crucial to the development of states and economies since the early Renaissance. The abandonment of traditional constraints on money-lending in the early 1300s enabled the city-states of Italy to develop rapidly. This connection to finance was crucial to the rebirth of art,...

As austerity policies are unpopular with voters and high levels of debt are a drag on growth a number of economists, most famously C. Reinhart and K. Rogoff, suggest that governments might have to consider financial repression as way out of the debt trap. We maintain that an exit from financial...

The computation of structural primary balances for the nine main Latin American countries and their comparison of their changes with their cyclical position during the period 1981-2004 confirms that fiscal policy is procyclical in the region. From this evidence, the paper shows strong evidence...

This chapter focuses on the foreign exchange constraint and capital markets across eight countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia region. Domestic macroeconomic idiosyncrasies and a host of external factors of capital flows volatility and currency pressures characterize much of the recent...

In May 2007 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) of Atlanta hosted a meeting in Mexico City on quot;New financing trends in Latin America: a bumpy road towards stabilityquot;. The meeting, which was chaired by Philip Turner of the BIS, brought together...