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This paper argues that in the European Union (EU) deposit insurance funds are too difficult to use in bank resolution and too easy to use outside resolution. The paper proposes reforms in three areas for the effective management of bank failures of small and medium-sized banks in the European...
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We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high...
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This paper explores the effect of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (QE2) on a group of frontier developing economies (FDEs) in Asia. This paper finds that spillovers emanating from the U.S. on FDEs in Asia have been small. The relative insulation of emerging Asia from the global financial...
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … employment when industries are finely disaggregated (450 manufacturing industries). However, this affect disappears at more … aggregate industry level of 96 industries indicating that there is sufficient growth in demand in other industries within these …
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The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the sector might be experiencing a renaissance. Using panel regressions, we find that a depreciating real exchange rate, an increasing spread in natural gas prices between the...
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The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based … on panel regressions using 31 U.S. and Canadian industries between 1991 and 2007, and using industries'' dependence on …
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This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms in 48 developed and developing countries in 2010, identifying factors of resilience as well as vulnerability. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, the results show that...
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