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Jang, Byung K.; Sheridan, Niamh - 2012

The paper finds that, given Australia's conservative approach in implementing the Basel II framework, Australian banks …

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Automation and Welfare: The Role of Bequests and Education

Ghazanchyan, Manuk - 2024

This paper examines the welfare effects of automation in neoclassical growth models with and without intergenerational … transfers. In a standard overlapping generations model without such transfers, improvements in automation technologies that … intergenerational transfers based on altruism, automation could raise the well-being of all generations. With imperfect altruism, fiscal …

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Africa's Got Work to Do; Employment Prospects in the New Century

Fox, Louise; Haines, Cleary; Munoz, Jorge Huerta; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and demographic outcomes. Agriculture still employs the majority...

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Public Debt Sustainability and Management in a Compound Option Framework

Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Santos, Andre - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

model is used to analyze the risk profile and sustainability of Australia's public debt under different policies. …

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Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?

Tressel, Thierry - 2008

-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia …

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The Declining Importance of Tradable Goods Manufacturing in Australia and New Zealand

Hunt, Benjamin F. - 2009

the decline in the share of goods production in Australia and New Zealand. The simulation results suggest that faster … productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …

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Financial Integration in Asia : Estimating the Risk-Sharing Gains for Australia and Other Nations

Mercereau, Benoît - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. FINANCIAL INTEGRATION REDUCES RISK -- III. ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY AND DATA -- IV. RESULTS -- V. CONCLUSION -- Appendix. Data Sources and Construction -- References.

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The Distributional Impact of a Carbon Tax in Asia and the Pacific

Alonso, Cristian - 2022

While a carbon tax is widely acknowledged as an efficient policy to mitigate climate change, adoption has lagged. Part of the challenge resides in the distributional implications of a carbon tax and a belief that it tends to be regressive. Even when not regressive, poor households could be hurt...

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HEAT! A Bank Health Assessment Tool

Ong, Li L.; Jeasakul, Phakawa; Kwoh, Sarah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Developments during the global financial crisis have highlighted the importance of differentiating across financial systems and institutions. Assessments of financial stability have increasingly considered the characteristics of individual banks within a financial system, as well as those with...

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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European … deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment. While the equity return performance in the banking sector has been dismal …

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