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Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia : the gravity model

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2020

gravity model to analyze remittance flows in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries. Standard gravity …

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Apocalypse then : The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis

Bui, Trung - 2011

The financial crisis, originated from the collapse of US housing markets in 2008, reverberates around the world. Its destructive force was felt nowhere more keenly than Western Europe. Indeed, it continues to mire in financial volatility as the debt problem contagiously spreads around the...

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Apocalypse then : the evolution of the North Atlantic economy and the global crisis

Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Bui, Trung - 2011

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Trade Finance and Trade Flows : Panel Data Evidence From 10 Crises

Ronci, Márcio Valério - 2004

This paper assesses the effect of constrained trade finance on trade flows in countries undergoing financial and balance of payments crises. Most of the countries that had a major crisis had a significant trade contraction, while trade-related finance declined sharply. However, trade may also be...

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Impact of remittances on natural rate of dollarization : trends in Caucasus and Central Asia

Gondo, Rocio; Aidarova, Altynai; Kumar, Manmohan S. - 2020

This paper discusses migration and remittances trends, and calculates the natural (or benchmark) level of dollarization in Caucasus, Central Asia and others in the region. This natural level of dollarization is conceptually linked to the currency allocation in a portfolio of deposits to maximize...

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The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia

Pastor, Gonzalo - 2001

This paper reviews the economic conditions in central Asia at the time of the Russian financial crisis of August 1998; the channels by which the crisis was transmitted to the central Asian region; and the policy responses. The paper concludes that, while real exchange rates of central Asian national...

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Bilateral Financial Linkages and Global Imbalances : A Viewon the Eve of the Financial Crisis

Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria - 2010

We present a novel and comprehensive dataset of bilateral gross and net external positions in various financial instruments for the main advanced and emerging economies and regions, designed to improve our understanding of cross-border financial linkages. The data show no strong correspondence...

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Comesa and Sadc : Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration

Khandelwal, Padamja - 2004

Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and...

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Protection for Free? : The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions

Mishra, Prachi - 2010

the value of protection, via costless messages (cheap-talk) and costly messages (lobbying). We estimate our model using … firm-level data on tariff suspension bills and lobbying expenditures from 1999-2006, and find that indeed verbal opposition … by import-competing firms, with no lobbying, significantly reduces the probability of a suspension being granted. In …

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Winning connections? : special interests and the sale of failed banks

Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas; Wagner, Wolf; Zhang, Quxian - 2017

We study how lobbying affects the resolution of failed banks, using a sample of FDIC auctions between 2007 and 2014. We … higher costs in such auctions, amounting to 16.4 percent of the total resolution losses. We also find that lobbying winners … have worse operating and stock market performance than their non-lobbying counterparts, suggesting that lobbying results in …

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