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This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinear relationship between the shadow economy and level of development. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and...
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volatility. The paper provides an overview of the recent developments in the conventional debt market. It builds an empirical two … that nonresident flows are behind the observed exchange rate volatility. The results suggest that the public debt market in … Malaysia responds adequately to both pull and push factors and find no firm evidence that nonresident flows cause volatility in …
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, and volatility in the remittance-sending country …
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This paper examines the effect of stabilization funds on the volatility of government expenditure in resource … stabilization funds contributes to smoothing government expenditure. The spending volatility in countries that have established such … analysis also shows that political institutions and fiscal rules are significant factors in reducing the expenditure volatility …
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This paper investigates the determinants of fiscal policy behavior and its time-varying volatility, using panel data … more volatile fiscal behavior, while fiscal rules and higher institutional quality reduce the volatility of fiscal policy …
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The paper investigates asymmetry in the allocation of aggregate demand shocks between real output growth and price inflation over the business cycle in a sample of fifteen Caribbean countries. In most countries, the evidence indicates the existence of structural constraints, implying that...
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This paper proposes a stochastic volatility model to measure sovereign financial distress. It examines how key European … sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads affect each other; specifically, the paper analyses the volatility structure of … explaining each other’s volatility while Germany also plays an important role. It is found that extreme bad news led to …
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We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure … relationship between clarity and market volatility prior to and during the early stage of the global financial crisis. As the …
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volatility and (the lack of) persistence implies that when one excludes volatile items relevant information is likely to be … volatility and persistence. The evidence shows that such measures far outperform those based on either volatility or persistence …
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In this paper we first compare house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using a new quarterly house price data set covering the period 1990-2012. We find that house prices in emerging economies grow faster, are more volatile, less persistent and less synchronized across countries...
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