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Debt-financed fiscal stimulus in South AfricaDebt-financed fiscal stimulus programmes directly stimulate aggregate demand through government expenditure or tax cuts, but their effectiveness is highly dependent on direct crowding out of private sector expenditure, spillover effects to the privat...
Public debt Interest rate Fiscal sustainabilityBlog
What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part II)
Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a product and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. Part 1 of this two-part article, which appeared in the October Angle, focused on Latin America and Europe...
Economic growth Foreign exchange Interest rateBlog
What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part I) Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two-part article, we focus on Latin America and Europe...
Depressions Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Foreign exchangeWorking Paper
Sensitivity of Loan Size to Lending Rates: Evidence from Ghana’s Microfinance SectorThis paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price inelasticity...
Econometric models (Finance) Interest rate MicrofinanceBook Chapter
The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in VietnamFrom the book: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development
Banking Business enterprises ContractsBook Chapter
Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global ContextFrom the book: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Consumption Housing Interest rateWorking Paper
Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global ContextHousing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries...
Consumption Housing Interest rateWorking Paper
The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in VietnamThis paper deals with loan contracting from a private bank in Vietnam. We focus on the main loan contract features that the bank uses in lending to business firms, namely loan maturity, collateral and loan interest rate...
Banking Business enterprises ContractsJournal Article
El Tramo Corto de la Estructura a Plazo como Predictor de Expectativas de la Actividad Económica en ColombiaPart of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
Inflation Interest rate Monetary policyJournal Article
The Behavior of Interest Rate Differentials under Shifting Exchange Rate Regimes: The Experience of Chile, Colombia and IsraelPart of Journal Special Issue Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
Foreign exchange Interest rate Monetary policyWorking Paper
Output and Price Fluctuations in China's Reform Years: What Role did Money Play?The Chinese economy underwent cyclical fluctuations in growth and inflation in the reform period. Contrasting views exist on the role of money in such fluctuations...
Business cycles Interest rate Econometric models (Macroeconomics)Working Paper
Testing for a Significant Change in the Egyptian Economy Under the Economic Reform Programme EraLate 1990, Egypt witnessed major and radical changes in all areas of its national life—political, legal, economic and social—as a reflection of implementing an economic reform programme in order to achieve progress in its economic indicat...
Economic development Public finance Foreign exchange