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Market Phoenixes and Banking Ducks Are Recoveries Faster in Market-Based Financial Systems?
Allard, Julien - 2011
Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in particular the more bank-based economies of continental...
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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom
Podpiera, Jiří - 2021
exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796259
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Recording Insurance Transactions in the Balance of Payments
Harper, Peter - 1995
Insurance enterprises provide services, called insurance services, to policyholders. The values of such services are … discusses the treatment of insurance services, and related transactions, in the balance of payments. A simple measure, based on … a number of assumptions, of nonlife insurance services is considered. The assumptions underlying this measure are then …
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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2005
Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401137
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A Historical Public Debt Database
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper describes the compilation of the first truly comprehensive database on gross government debt-to-GDP ratios, covering nearly the entire IMF membership (174 countries) and spanning an exceptionally long time period. The database was constructed by bringing together a number of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402998
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The International Monetary System in the (Very) Long Run
Sussman, Nathan - 2000
This paper takes stock of the evolution of the international monetary system over the last thousand years. Several points stand out from the analysis. One is the reluctance of governments to embrace radical changes in international monetary relations. Another is the conflict between external and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399905
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Environmental tax reform : principles from theory and practice to date
Heine, Dirk; Nørregaard, John; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2012
energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694116
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Productivity growth and value chains in four European countries
Karpowicz, Izabela; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2020
Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...
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Inflation Targeting Under Asymmetric Preferences
Ruge-Murcia, Francisco Javier - 2001
''s preference parameters for Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are statistically different from the one implied by the commonly …
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The Fiscal Stance in Sweden : A Generational Accounting Perspective
John, Christoph - 1995
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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