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China's rebalancing : opportunities and challenges for LAC exporters
Aasaavari, Nitya; Di Vittorio, Fabio; Lariau, Ana; Li, Yuebo - 2020
Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), two regions with large growth potential, have become increasingly connected over the last 20 years. China has emerged not only as a top trading partner, but also as an important competitor of LAC exports. China's retreat from certain markets, due...
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Chinese investment in Latin America : sectoral complementarity and the impact of China's rebalancing
Ding, Ding; Di Vittorio, Fabio; Lariau, Ana; Zhou, Yue - 2021
Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume and become more diversified from natural resources to other industries. Using cross-border mergers and acquisitions data, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas...
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Can fintech foster competition in the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Suchanan Tambunlertchai; Bejar, Pablo; Ishi, Kotaro; … - 2021
This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and investigates the early impact of fintech development in the region thus far. Against the backdrop of high net interest margins (NIMs) and limited financial depth in the region,...
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Tax policy for inclusive growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Acosta Ormaechea, Santiago Leonardo Enrique; … - 2022
This study provides an overview of tax structures in LAC before the COVID-19 pandemic, compares it to OECD countries, and provides recommendations for growth-friendly and inclusive tax policy reforms. LAC countries collect significantly lower tax revenue relative to OECD countries and have tax...
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Balancing financial stability and housing affordability : the case of Canada
Matheson, Troy - 2018
Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect housing affordability. This paper …, financial stability, and housing affordability. Not surprisingly, when faced with multiple objectives, deploying more policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112309
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How should we measure city size? : theory and evidence within and across rich and poor countries
Jedwab, Remi; Loungani, Prakash; Yezer, Anthony M. J. - 2019
It is obvious that holding city population constant, differences in cities across the world are enormous. Urban giants in poor countries are not large using measures such as land area, interior space or value of output. These differences are easily reconciled mathematically as population is the...
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Household debt and house prices-at-risk : a tale of two countries
Alter, Adrian; Mahoney, Elizabeth M. - 2020
To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of … risks to housing markets in the United States have seemingly fallen over the past decade, while having increased in Canada … risks. In addition, capital flows are found to be significantly associated with future downside risks to major housing …
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Stabilizing China's housing market
Koss, Richard A.; Shi, Xinrui - 2018
of bubbles forming there. However, China's unique housing market characteristics make it difficult to assess the …
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China's high savings : drivers, prospects, and policies
Zhang, Longmei; Brooks, Ray; Ding, Ding; Ding, Haiyan; … - 2018
market economy. Housing reform and rising income inequality also contribute to higher savings. Moving forward, demographic …
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Income inequality and government transfers in Mexico
Lambert, Frederic; Park, Hyunmin - 2019
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequality...
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