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Working Paper
The Revenue and Double Dividend Potential of Taxes on International Private Capital Flows and Securities Transactions

This paper explores two proposals to tax financial flows in developing economies—the package of policies implemented to various degrees by Chile and Colombia during the 1990s, widely referred to today as the Chilean model—and securities t...

Economic policy Revenue Securities
Book Chapter
Financial Regulation and Supervision in Emerging Markets: The Experience of Latin America since the Tequila Crisis

From the book: From Capital Surges to Drought

Economic policy Financial crisis Financial institutions
Book Chapter
Derivatives, the Shape of International Capital Flows and the Virtues of Prudential Regulation

From the book: From Capital Surges to Drought

Capital market Economic policy International finance
Working Paper
Derivatives, the Shape of International Capital Flows and the Virtues of Prudential Regulation

The paper studies the trend towards the use of securities as a vehicle to transfer capital to developing economies, and how it is linked to the increasing use of derivatives transactions in developing countries...

Capital market Economic policy International finance
Working Paper
Financial Regulation and Supervision in Emerging Markets: The Experience of Latin America since the Tequila Crisis

The paper deals with changes in the regulation and supervision of the Latin American financial sector in the aftermath of the ‘Tequila Crisis’ of 1994–95...

Economic policy Financial crisis Financial institutions
Journal Article
Should Africa Promote Stock Market Capitalism?

Part of Journal Special Issue Impact of the Liberalization of the Exchange Rate and Financial Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Banking Capital market Securities
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