 | The Rise and Impact of Fintech in Latin America Author/Editor: Bas B Bakker, Beatriz Garcia-Nunes, Weicheng Lian, Yang Liu, Camila Perez Marulanda, Adam Siddiq, Mariusz A Sumlinski, Yuanchen Yang, Dmitry Vasilyev. Release Date:March, 2023 In the past decade, fintech has shaken up the financial sector in Latin America providing innovations in lending, payments, insurance, and regulation and compliance. This paper examines this more...
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 | Crypto Assets and CBDCs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and Risks Author/Editor: Maximiliano Appendino, Olga Bespalova, Rina Bhattacharya, Jean François Clevy, Nan Geng, Takuji Komatsuzaki, Justin Lesniak, Weicheng Lian, Sandra Marcelino, Mauricio Villafuerte, Yorbol Yakhshilikov. Release Date:February, 2023 After providing a general overview of the nature, pros, and cons of crypto assets and CBDCs, this paper focuses on documenting their recent experience in LAC. The region records a high interest in more...
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| Natural Disasters and Scarring Effects Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian, Jose Ramon Moran, Raadhika Vishvesh. Release Date:December, 2022 This paper uses a novel empirical approach, following the literature on hysteresis, to explore medium-term scarring of natural disasters for countries vulnerable to climate change. By quantifying the more...
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| Inflation Dynamics in Advanced Economies: A Decomposition into Cyclical and Non-Cyclical Factors Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian, Andreas Freitag. Release Date:May, 2022 Inflation and unemployment rate were largely disconnected between 2000 and 2019 in advanced economies. We decompose core inflation into two parts based on the cyclical sensitivity of CPI components more...
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| A Diversification Strategy for South Asia Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian, Fei Liu, Katsiaryna Svirydzenka, Biying Zhu. Release Date:July, 2021 While South Asia has gone a long way in diversifying their economies, there is substantial scope to do more. Some countries – India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka – can build on their existing production more...
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| India's Inflation Process Before and After Flexible Inflation Targeting Author/Editor: Patrick Blagrave, Weicheng Lian. Release Date:November, 2020 We study the inflation process in India, focusing on the periods before and after the adoption of flexible inflation-forecast targeting (FIT) in India. Our analysis uses several approaches including more...
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| Public Debt and r - g at Risk Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian, Andrea F Presbitero, Ursula Wiriadinata. Release Date:July, 2020 As interest rate-growth differentials (r-g) turned negative in many countries, governments consider pursuing fiscal expansion and the potential risks involved. Using a large sample of advanced and more...
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| Technological Changes, Offshoring, and the Labor Share Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian. Release Date:July, 2019 Existing studies on the downward trend in the labor share of income mostly focus on changes within individual countries. I document, however, that half of the global decline in the labor share of more...
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| The Price of Capital Goods: A Driver of Investment Under Threat Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva, Yannick Timmer, Petia Topalova. Release Date:June, 2019 Over the past three decades, the price of machinery and equipment fell dramatically relative to other prices in advanced and emerging market and developing economies. Using cross-country and sectoral more...
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| Fundamental and Speculative Demands for Housing Author/Editor: Weicheng Lian. Release Date:March, 2019 This paper separates the roles of demand for housing services and belief about future house prices in a house price cycle, by utilizing a feature of user-cost-of-housing that it is sensitive to more...
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