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Improving Sovereign Financing Conditions Through Data Transparency

Author/Editor: Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia.

Release Date:November, 2022

Does it pay off to be transparent and, if so, can the benefits of transparency be measured? This paper provides an affirmative answer to both questions, supported by novel evidence on the link more...



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International Trade and Corporate Market Power

Author/Editor: Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Yuanchen Yang.

Release Date:July, 2020

This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis is more...



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Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Reda Cherif, Sandesh Dhungana, Xiangming Fang, Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Yuanchen Yang, Mustafa Yenice, Jung Eun Yoon.

Release Date:February, 2020

Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question by using country-and firm-level data for a sample of 39 sub-Saharan African more...



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The Impact of Fiscal Consolidations on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Francisco Arizala, Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Charalambos G Tsangarides, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:December, 2017

This paper examines the output effects of changes in public expenditure and revenue in sub-Saharan African countries during 1990–2016. Fiscal multipliers in sub-Saharan Africa are somewhat smaller more...



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Growth Breaks and Growth Spells in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Francisco Arizala, Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Charalambos G Tsangarides, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:September, 2017

This paper examines the growth performance of sub-Saharan African countries since 1960 through the lens of growth turning points (accelerations and decelerations) and periods of sustained more...



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Sub-Saharan African Migration : Patterns and Spillovers

Author/Editor: Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Ermal Hitaj, Montfort Mlachila, Arina Viseth, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:November, 2016

Amid rapid population growth, migration in sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing briskly over the last 20 years. Up to the 1990s, the stock of migrants—citizens of one country living in another more...



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Trade Integration and Global Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa : In Pursuit of the Missing Link

Author/Editor: Céline Allard, Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko, Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, Emmanouil Kitsios, Juan P Trevino, Wenjie Chen.

Release Date:March, 2016

This analysis of the extent of trade integration of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the global economy as well as within the region over the 1995–2013 period focuses on four key concepts: more...



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State-Owned Banks and Fiscal Discipline

Author/Editor: Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, Francesco Grigoli.

Release Date:October, 2013

State-owned banks may help to soften the financing constraints of public sector entities and consequently become a factor that hampers fiscal discipline. Using a panel dataset, we find that a larger more...



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Fiscal Multipliers in the ECCU

Author/Editor: Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, Antonio Lemus, Mico Mrkaic.

Release Date:May, 2013

The multipliers of taxes, and government consumption and investment expenditure for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) are estimated using vector autoregression models with panel data. The more...



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Benford’s Law and Macroeconomic Data Quality

Author/Editor: Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, Gonzalo C. Pastor.

Release Date:January, 2009

This paper examines the usefulness of testing the conformity of macroeconomic data with Benford's law as indicator of data quality. Most of the macroeconomic data series tested conform with Benford's more...



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