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The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling … for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence … the black box and conditioning the variance of growth shocks on several country characteristics. Natural resource …
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and short-term planning horizon can also lead to such underinvestment. Subsequently, banks can stimulate growth …
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In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To … only when the policy instrument is successful in smoothing the growth rate of human capital. …
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switch to private provision welfare improving for all agents including public employees. …
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This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … financial development to economic growth and from trade openness to CO2 emissions is identified. Our empirical results also …
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suited to maximizing welfare of the host country. We show that welfare under a safe haven rule is higher than under an … earnings stripping rule if firms are not able to manipulate transfer prices. Welfare, however, can be higher under an earnings …
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Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...
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We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the quality of governance) and the degree of market...
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In this paper, we investigate whether foreign currency accounts help overcome credit constraints in developing countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign currency deposits on commercial bank balance sheets. In...
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This paper analyzes the development of the banking sector in European transition countries. We find that, although bank assets increased during the 1990s, credit to the private sector remained relatively low. Foreign-owned banks have become major players in the financial system of these...
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