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Credit Booms and macroeconomic dynamics : stylized facts and lessons for low-income countries

Arena, Marco; Bouza, Serpil; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2015

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Firm Productivity, innovation and Financial Development

Verdier, Geneviève - 2010

How do firm-specific actions-in particular, innovation-affect firm productivity? And what is the role of the financial … sector in facilitating higher productivity? Using a rich firm-level dataset, we find that innovation is crucial for firm … financial sector; firms reap the maximum benefits from innovation in countries with well-developed financial sectors. This …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404309

Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries

Matovu, John - 2002

This paper addresses the potential effects on human capital accumulation and economic growth of the alternative compositions of public expenditures in the context of a computable dynamic general equilibrium model of overlapping generations and heterogeneous agents in which altruistic parents...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400202

Productivity and tax evasion

Dabla-Norris, Era; Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Miryugin, Fedor; … - 2019

The extent of tax compliance has important implications for revenue yield, efficiency and the fairness of any tax system. Tax evasion undermines revenue collection, distorts competition, and undermines a country's development prospects. In this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154898

Too cold, too hot, or just right? : assessing financial sector development across the globe

Barajas, Adolfo; Beck, Thorsten; Dabla-Norris, Era; … - 2013

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Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? : Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe

Barajas, Adolfo - 2013

This paper introduces the concept of the financial possibility frontier as a constrained optimum level of financial development to gauge the relative performance of financial systems across the globe. This frontier takes into account structural country characteristics, institutional, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395298

Revisiting the link between finance and macroeconomic volatility

Dabla-Norris, Era; Srivisal, Narapong - 2013

This paper examines the impact of financial depth on macroeconomic volatility using a dynamic panel analysis for 110 advanced and developing countries. We find that financial depth plays a significant role in dampening the volatility of output, consumption, and investment growth, but only up to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671037

The Enforcement of Property Rights and Underdevelopment

Dabla-Norris, Era - 1999

This paper formalizes the role of legal infrastructure in economic development in a general equilibrium model with endogenously determined property rights enforcement. It illustrates the mutual importance of property rights protection and market production by the model’s multiplicity of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400855

Structural reforms and productivity growth in emerging market and developing economies

Dabla-Norris, Era; Ho, Giang; Kyobe, Annette - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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Spillovers to low-income countries : importance of systemic emerging markets

Dabla-Norris, Era; Espinoza, Raphael; Jahan, Sarwat - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572531