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Household Debt and Borrower-Based Measures in Finland: Insights from a Heterogeneous Agent Model

Nakamura, Fumitaka - 2023

We analyze the effects of borrower-based macroprudential tools in Finland. To evaluate the efficiency of the tools, we …

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Spillovers in the Nordic Countries

Mircheva, Borislava; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden form a tightly integrated region which has strong ties with the euro area as well … independent monetary policy, and Denmark and Norway are net energy exporters while Finland and Sweden are energy importers. We … of integration among the four Nordic economies. These differences are driven by the fact that Denmark and Finland have no …

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Spillovers to and from the Nordic Economies: A Macroeconometric Model Based Analysis

Vitek, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks and policies among and across the Nordic economies and the rest of the world. This spillover analysis is based on a pair of estimated structural macroeconometric models of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. We find...

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Environmental Tax Reform : Principles from Theory and Practice to Date

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2012

energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy … Reforms: The Case of Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam -- A. Comparing Energy Systems in Sweden, Germany, Turkey, and … Energy under the Value-Added Tax System -- 5. Environmental Tax Reforms in Sweden, Germany, Turkey, and Vietnam -- References. …

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The Long-Run Trend of Residential Investment in China

Ding, Ding - 2018

In this paper we analyze the fundamental drivers of China's residential investment as a share of its GDP. Our analysis indicates that the economic structural changes that led to rebalancing toward consumption were the key driver of the rising residential investment to GDP ratio in China. We...

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Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?

Papageorgiou, Chris - 2008

We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting...

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The role of risk and information for international capital flows : new evidence from the SDDS

Hashimoto, Yūko; Wacker, Konstantin - 2012

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...

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Valuation of Unlisted Direct Investment Equity

Elkjaer, Thomas - 2009

This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6). Based on publicly available Danish data, we test the three methods that are generally...

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Being a Foreigner Among Domestic Banks

Horen, Neeltje van - 2009

Studying a large number of banks in various countries between 1999 and 2006, we document that foreign banks perform better when from a high income country, when host country competition is limited, and when they are large and rely more on deposits for funding. Foreign banks' performance improves...

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