Through its Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), the Basel Committee monitors the timely adoption of regulations by its members, assesses their consistency with the Basel framework and examines the consistency of banks' calculation of th...
Through its Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), the Basel Committee monitors the timely adoption of regulations by its members, assesses their consistency with the Basel framework and examines the consistency of banks' calculation of th...
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The paper studies how financial conditions affect real economic activity. It examines, in particular, the relationship between the role of the dollar exchange rate and indicators compiled from surveys of corporate purchasing activity around the ...
Contrary to the traditional assumption of interest rates on government debt exceeding economic
growth, negative interest-growth differentials have become prevalent since the global financial
crisis. As these differentials are a key determinant of publi...
Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds of
different maturities. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rate
environment by estimating a market stochastic discount factor that is...
Countries in the MENAP and CCA regions have the lowest levels of financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the world. The paper provides empirical evidence on the drivers of SME access to finance for a large sample of countries, and...
We propose a framework to link empirical models of systemic risk to theoretical network/
general equilibrium models used to understand the channels of transmission of systemic
risk. The theoretical model allows for systemic risk due to interbank counte...
This paper studies whether FDI firms employ more workers than domestic firms for each dollar of assets. Using the Orbis database and its ownership structure information, we show that, in most economies, domestic firms tend to employ more workers per as...
