 | Economic Convergence in the Euro Area: Coming Together or Drifting Apart? Author/Editor: Jeffrey R Franks, Bergljot B Barkbu, Rodolphe Blavy, William Oman, Hanni Schoelermann. Release Date:January, 2018 We examine economic convergence among euro area countries on multiple dimensions. While there was nominal convergence of inflation and interest rates, real convergence of per capita income levels has more...
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 | Youth Unemployment in Advanced Economies in Europe: Searching for Solutions Author/Editor: Angana Banerji, Sergejs Saksonovs, Huidan Huidan Lin, Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:December, 2014 The SDN will assess the youth unemployment problem in advanced European countries, with a special focus on the euro area. It will document the main trends in youth and adult unemployment in 22 more...
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| Market Phoenixes and Banking Ducks Are Recoveries Faster in Market-Based Financial Systems? Author/Editor: Julien Allard, Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:September, 2011 Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably more...
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| Estimating Default Frequencies and Macrofinancial Linkages in the Mexican Banking Sector Author/Editor: Marcos Souto, Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:May, 2009 The credit risk measures we develop in this paper are used to investigate macrofinancial linkages in the Mexican banking system. Domestic and external macro-financial variables are found to be more...
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| Mexico's Integration into NAFTA Markets : A View from Sectoral Real Exchange Rates and Transaction Costs Author/Editor: Luciana Juvenal, Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:May, 2008 A self-exciting threshold autoregressive model is used to measure transaction costs that may explain relative price differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates more...
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| Assessing Banking Sector Soundness in a Long-Term Framework: The Case of Venezuela : The Case of Venezuela Release Date:October, 2006 This paper combines financial soundness indicators (FSIs) and stress-testing methodologies to provide a broad assessment of the soundness of Venezuela's banking sector, based on a diagnosis of its more...
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| Public Debt and Productivity : The Difficult Quest for Growth in Jamaica Author/Editor: Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:October, 2006 The paper analyzes Jamaica's experience of low growth despite consistently high investment. Cross-country analysis provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public more...
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| Monitoring and Commitment in Bank Lending Behavior Author/Editor: Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:November, 2005 The paper proposes a theoretical argument on the nature of bank lending, based on the idea that, through commitment and monitoring, banks overcome basic informational asymmetries with borrowers. By more...
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| Inflation and Monetary Pass-Through in Guinea Author/Editor: Rodolphe Blavy. Release Date:December, 2004 The paper analyzes the dynamics of inflation in Guinea during 1992-2003 applying cointegration and error-correction modeling to a bivariate model that includes consumer price and monetary variables. more...
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| Microfinance in Africa : Experience and Lessons From Selected African Countries Author/Editor: Rodolphe Blavy, Anupam Basu, Murat  Yulek. Release Date:September, 2004 Based on the experience of selected countries, this paper offers a critical presentation of the development of the microfinance sector in Africa. The paper supports the view that microfinance more...
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