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Recent events have shown that sovereigns, just like banks, can be subject to runs, highlighting the importance of the investor base for their liabilities. This paper proposes a methodology for compiling internationally comparable estimates of investor holdings of sovereign debt. Based on this...
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We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with...
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Real estate investment accounts for a quarter of total fixed asset investment (FAI) in China. The real estate sectorâ … estate investment in China—though a low-probability event—would be sizable, with large spillovers to a number of Chinaâ … and the rest of the G20 economies, we find that a 1-percent decline in China’s real estate investment would shave about …
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-sustaining growth based on private consumption and investment. This paper finds that Japanese nonfinancial firms have accumulated cash … at the expense of investment and dividends, hampering this transition. The evidence suggests that cash accumulation is … plays only a limited role. These firms have cash holdings available for investment of about 5 percent of GDP. Policy options …
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analyzes financial market spillovers over the period 2001-12 through four channels: bilateral portfolio investment, bilateral … greater amount of portfolio investment assets, they should strengthen prudential regulations to mitigate against rising risks …
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intangible intensity. We estimate our model using temporary investment tax incentive policies in the United States in the early … 2000s. When the q-model accounts for intangible assets, the estimated investment elasticity to tax incentives is generally …
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This paper explores how corporate income tax reform can help Japan increase investment and boost potential growth …. Using international and Japan-specific empirical estimates of corporate tax elasticities, investment is predicted to expand … will undo positive investment effects of a rate cut. Alternative revenue sources include higher consumption and property …
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around 3¼ percent, but growth could reach 4-5 percent with strong pro-active policies including (i) improving investment and … savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education …
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The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic … growth, has remained a puzzle. This paper shows that the post-crisis investment recession has been mainly concentrated in the …
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Experience from the global financial crisis suggests that countries’ borrowing costs are not solely determined by macro and fiscal fundamentals. Factors such as ownership structures of government securities, among others, also play a significant role. This paper investigates the effect of...
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