 | Commodity Price Volatility and Inclusive Growth in Low-Income Countries Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Catherine A Pattillo, Marc G Quintyn, Min Zhu. Release Date:October, 2012 In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic growth. However, many are now facing enormous difficulties because of more...
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 | Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World: Evidence from a New Dataset Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Herbert Lui, Marc Quintyn, Frederik G Toscani. Release Date:September, 2012 The paper provides a detailed description of a novel dataset on education attainment in public administrations covering the period 1981-2011 for 178 countries. The dataset uses information extracted more...
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| Structural Reforms, IMF Programs and Capacity Building: An Empirical Investigation Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Marc Quintyn, Frederik G Toscani. Release Date:September, 2012 This paper investigates the role that International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and capacity building play in fostering structural reforms. To do so, we exploit two novel datasets on IMF capacity more...
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| Commodity Prices and Exchange Rate Volatility: Lessons from South Africa’s Capital Account Liberalization Author/Editor: Rabah Arezki, Elena Dumitrescu, Andreas Freytag, Marc Quintyn. Release Date:June, 2012 We examine the relationship between South African Rand and gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1980-2010. Our main findings is that prior to capital account liberalization the more...
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| Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes: Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework Author/Editor: Sophia Gollwitzer, Marc Quintyn. Release Date:March, 2012 This paper tests the theoretical framework developed by North, Wallis and Weingast (2009) on the transition from closed to open access societies. They posit that societies need to go through three more...
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 | The Economic Crisis : Did Financial Supervision Matter? Author/Editor: Marc Quintyn, Rosaria Vega Pansini, Donato Masciandaro. Release Date:November, 2011 The Asian financial crisis marked the beginning of worldwide efforts to improve the effectiveness of financial supervision. However, the crisis that started in 2007?08 was a crude awakening: several more...
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| Mother, Can I Trust the Government? Sustained Financial Deepening : A Political Institutionsview Author/Editor: Marc Quintyn, Genevieve Verdier. Release Date:September, 2010 Only a minority of countries have succeeded in establishing a developed financial system, despite widespread financial liberalization. Confronted with this finding, the political institutions view more...
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| The Effectiveness of Macroeconomic Commitment in Weak(er) Institutional Environments Author/Editor: Marc Quintyn, Sophia Gollwitzer. Release Date:August, 2010 This paper analyzes the institutional conditions affecting the establishment and effectiveness of independent central banks and of budgetary institutions. It draws on the recent theory developed by more...
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| Will they Sing the Same Tune? Measuring Convergence in the new European System of Financial Supervisors Author/Editor: Marc Quintyn, Donato Masciandaro, Marķa Nieto. Release Date:July, 2009 In June 2009 a new financial supervisory framework for the European Union (EU) was endorsed, consisting of a macro- and a micro-prudential pillar. The latter is composed of a Steering Committee, a more...
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| Financial Supervisory Independence and Accountability–Exploring the Determinants Author/Editor: Donato Masciandaro, Marc Quintyn, Michael Taylor. Release Date:June, 2008 We analyze recent trends in, and determinants of, financial supervisory governance. We first calculate levels of supervisory independence and accountability in 55 countries. The econometric analysis more...
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