26-October-2011
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Brazil under-invested in infrastructure for over three decades, and infrastructure investment rates have come up only slowly since 2007. Infrastructure needs are sizeable in almost all sectors.
26-October-2011
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Low investment rates are limiting Brazil’s future potential growth rate. This paper analyses a number of potential reasons for these low investment rates and discusses policy options to achieve faster capital accumulation.
20-September-2011
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This paper investigates the role played by deregulation on firms’ investment decisions in infrastructure sectors.
28-July-2011
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In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries.
28-July-2011
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This paper examines how the the distributive impact of macroeconomic shocks is shaped by selected institutions. It uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) framework with heterogeneous agents and an endogenous collateral constraint.
4-July-2011
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This paper addresses the often neglected question of how macroeconomic risk is shared across and within economies, and identifies reforms that could contribute towards achieving more desirable risk-sharing outcomes.
8-March-2011
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Apparent characteristics of the Hungarian banking market such as large profits and high margins suggest weak competitive pressures. Weak competition in turn, may reduce efficiency in a lack of pressures to converge to marginal cost and to stimulate managerial efforts to reduce X-inefficiency.
4-March-2011
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Global current account imbalances widened markedly in the years preceding the global economic crisis.
17-February-2011
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The estimated medium-term impact of Basel III implementation on GDP growth is in the range of -0.05 to -0.15 percentage point per annum.
17-December-2010
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The extent of competition in product markets is an important determinant of economic growth in both developed and developing countries.