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New residential construction is significantly more procyclical in emerging markets than in developed countries, although the correlation between aggregate investment and output is similar across emerging and developed countries. This paper shows that a multi-sector stochastic growth model with a...
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Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
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This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst … shocks. In a context of collateralized formal credit markets, we provide suggestive evidencethat insurance may help reduce …
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on Colombia finds some evidence that low-quality governance of sub-national governments compromises the internal … Kolumbien zeigen, dass eine niedrige Qualität der Governance kommunaler Regierungen, sich negativ auf die Produktionseffizienz …
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This paper investigates the impact of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer program in Colombia, on … participant credit behavior. The motivation of the research is derived from previous studies which indicate that conditional cash … remain uninvestigated. My research specifically focuses on the impacts of the program on credit behavior. I compute estimates …
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This research titled "Analysis of Influence of Credit and Interest Rate Increase Economic Growth in Disability Sumatera … determine the influence of credit and interest rate of economic growth in 1989-2008 of North Sumatra. This research uses … that the higher credit demand, then economic growth will increase. Meanwhile, the higher the interest rate, then economic …
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the Spanish banking system (the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Chile, Peru and Colombia). It …
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constraints, a housing bubble initially raises credit demand by housing firms while leaving credit supply unaffected. It therefore … crowds out credit to non-housing firms. If time passes and the bubble lasts, however, housing firms eventually pay back their … higher loans. This leads to an increase in banks’ net worth and thus to an expansion in their supply of credit to all firms …
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In this paper we develop a probability of default (PD) model for mortgage loans, taking advantage of the Spanish Credit … Register, a comprehensive database on loan characteristics and credit quality. From that model, we calculate different types of … sensitive to the risk measurement methodology employed. Thus, the procyclicality of regulatory capital requirements under Basel …
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