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Iceland: The Financial and Economic Crisis
Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
The global financial and economic crisis has struck Iceland with extreme force. Iceland’s three main banks, accounting for almost all of the banking system, failed in October 2008. They were unable to resist the deterioration in global financial markets following the failure of Lehman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498029
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277005
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Post-Crisis Changes in Banking and Corporate Landscapes: The Case of Thailand
Molnár, Margit - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
This study investigates the relative importance of factors shaping banking and corporate landscapes in Thailand after 1997 through an empirical analysis of micro-data of Thai banks and firms. The results of the analysis of the bank data show that the deceleration of bank credit growth is mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045673
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Post-Crisis Changes in Banking and Corporate Landscapes in Dynamic Asia
Molnár, Margit - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
This study investigates the changing relations between banks and their business customers in selected Asian emerging economies. These changes are manifest in declining bank lending growth and can be attributed to three major driving forces: cyclical factors, the fallout from the 1997 Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045732
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Sub-central Governments and the Economic Crisis: Impact and Policy Responses
Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Charbit, Claire; Campos, José … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
The world is recovering from the worst crisis since the Great Depression, leaving a strong and lasting impact on Member countries’ public finances. This paper analyses how sub-central governments (SCG) are affected and how fiscal policy has reacted in the first months after the outbreak of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542504
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Japan's New Growth Strategy to Create Demand and Jobs
Jones, Randall S.; Yoo, Byungseo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
than being limited to the seven areas identified in the Strategy. Among those areas, effectively promoting green innovation … integration with Asia depends on reducing support for agriculture to facilitate more bilateral and regional trade agreements … stratégie. S’agissant de ces derniers, pour promouvoir efficacement l’innovation verte, il faudra utiliser des instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291571
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China's Financial Sector Reforms
Herd, Richard; Hill, Samuel; Pigott, Charles - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Reforms to modernise and strengthen the financial sector have continued in recent years. The cleaning-up of the stock of non-performing loans is largely completed and considerable progress has been made in improving commercial banks’ corporate governance structures and risk management systems....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480478
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Financial Stability: Overcoming the Crisis and Improving the Efficiency of the Banking Sector
Jones, Randall S.; Tsutsumi, Masahiko - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
The crisis that originated in mid-2007 in the United States and deepened in September 2008 is the largest peace-time disruption of financial markets since the Great Depression. It was triggered by a number of factors, namely the large amount of lending to subprime borrowers, the expansion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498027
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Challenges in the Mexican Financial Sector
Bonturi, Marcos - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002
The Mexican banking crisis of 1994/95 necessitated a major government rescue operation - estimated to have cost about 20 per cent of GDP. Since then, financial sector reforms have been implemented and the performance of the Mexican financial system has markedly improved, as shown by indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045621
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The EU's Single Market: At Your Service?
Vogt, Line - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
While the single market has largely been achieved for the EU market for goods, the services sector has lagged behind. This has resulted in sluggish activity, low productivity growth, high prices, that show a wide dispersion and relatively high inflation in this sector. Both the OECD product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045682