Documents & Reports
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360° Resilience : A Guide to Prepare the Caribbean for a New Generation of Shocks – Private and Financial Sector Resilience in the Caribbean (English)
The private sector in the Caribbean is crucial for economic growth and job creation and economic resilience is thus heavily determined by the shock absorbing capacity of individual firms and households...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 165603 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Masetti,Oliver
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Chile - Financial Sector Assessment Program : Technical Note - Competition in the Financial Sector (English)
This note assesses competitive dynamics and potential impediments in Chile’s financial sector in order to provide actionable policy recommendations. This note contains both a quantitative as well as qualitative...
Document Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) Report No.: 174043 Document Date: September 30, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cohen,Charles,Dijkman,Miquel,Masetti,Oliver
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Interest Rate Repression : A New Database (English)
Financial repression resurfaced in the wake of the global financial crisis and might become a common feature in the post Covid-19 world. To advance knowledge and inform policy advice, this paper presents...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9457 Document Date: October 27, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Calice,Pietro,Diaz Kalan,Federico Alfonso,Masetti,Oliver
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Interest Rate Repression Around the World (English)
Financial repression resurfaced in the wake of the global financial crisis and may become a common feature in the post Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) world. To advance knowledge and inform policy advice...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 153675 Document Date: October 15, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Calice,Pietro,Diaz Kalan,Federico Alfonso,Masetti,Oliver
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Recent Trends in Bank Privatization (English)
This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9318 Document Date: July 13, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bertay,Ata Can,Calice,Pietro,Diaz Kalan,Federico Alfonso,Masetti,Oliver
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Capital flow measures : structural or cyclical policy tools? (English)
This paper analyzes the use of capital flow measures in emerging markets. Drawing on a specially compiled new database of capital flow measures, it establishes that policy makers in emerging market economies...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8418 Document Date: April 26, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gupta,Poonam,Masetti,Oliver
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Interest rate caps : the theory and the practice (English)
Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or protect consumers from exorbitant rates. Interest rate caps come in many forms and scopes...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8398 Document Date: April 3, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ferrari,Aurora,Masetti,Oliver,Ren,Jiemin
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Should emerging markets worry about U.S. monetary policy announcements ? (English)
This paper analyzes the spillover effects of U.S. monetary policy announcements on emerging market economies since end-2008, the period coinciding with the use of unconventional policy measures. Monetary...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8100 Document Date: June 9, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gupta,Poonam - DECOS,Masetti,Oliver,Rosenblatt,David
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Are capital flows fickle? Increasingly ? and does the answer still depend on type? (English)
According to conventional wisdom, capital flows are fickle. Focusing on emerging markets, this paper asks whether this conventional wisdom still holds in the contemporary world. The results show that...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7972 Document Date: February 15, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eichengreen,Barry J.,Gupta,Poonam - DECOS,Masetti,Oliver