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Cyber Risk, Market Failures, and Financial Stability

Kopp, Emanuel - 2017

Cyber-attacks on financial institutions and financial market infrastructures are becomingmore common and more sophisticated. Risk awareness has been increasing, firms activelymanage cyber risk and invest in cybersecurity, and to some extent transfer and pool theirrisks through cyber liability...

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Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks : Focus on the MENAP and CCA Regions

Lukonga, Inutu - 2018

Financial technology (fintech) is emerging as an innovative way to achieve financial inclusion and the broader objective of inclusive growth. Thus far, fintech in the MENAP and CCA remains below potential with limited impact on financial inclusion. This paper reviews the fintech landscape in the...

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We are All in the Same Boat : Cross-Border Spillovers of Climate Risk Through International Trade and Supply Chain

Feng, Alan; Li, Haishi - 2021

Are assets in a landlocked country subject to sea-level rise risk? In this paper, we study the cross-border spillovers of physical climate risks through international trade and supply chain linkages. As we base our findings on historical data between 1970 and 2018, we observe that globalization...

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Barriers to Household Risk Management : Evidence from India

Cole, Shawn Allen - 2012

Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is...

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New Zealand Banks' Vulnerabilities and Capital Adequacy

Jang, Byung K. - 2013

The paper finds that, given New Zealand's conservative approach in implementing the Basel II framework, New Zealand banks' headline capital ratios underestimate their capital strength. A comparison with Canadian, UK and Australian banks highlights the impact of New Zealand's more conservative...

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Fintech Payments in Public Financial Management : Benefits and Risks

Uña, Gerardo; Griffin, Naomi; Verma, Alok; Bazarbash, Majid - 2023

discuss the challenges of integrating them into the public sector. The use of fintech in public finance could bring various …

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Finance and Employment in Developing Countries : The Working Capital Channel

Dao, Mai - 2017

main predictions of the model, and find strong evidence for the working capital channel of external finance on firm …

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Supporting Sustainable Financing and Access to Finance in Armenia

Atamanchuk, Maria; Tokuoka, Kiichi - 2023

(FDI) in private external financing has declined significantly over the past decade. Access to domestic finance in Armenia … FDI and examines the impediments to increasing access to domestic finance. The paper confirms empirically that governance … are reported among major challenges for increasing access to finance for firms in Armenia. This paper finds that to …

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Household Leverage and the Recession

Jones, Callum - 2018

We evaluate and partially challenge the 'household leverage' view of the Great Recession. In the data, employment and consumption declined more in states where household debt declined more. We study a model where liquidity constraints amplify the response of consumption and employment to changes...

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Resolving China's Corporate Debt Problem

Maliszewski, Wojciech - 2016

Corporate credit growth in China has been excessive in recent years. This credit boom is related to the large increase in investment after the Global Financial Crisis. Investment efficiency has fallen and the financial performance of corporates has deteriorated steadily, affecting asset quality...

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