 | Fiscal Dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa Revisited Author/Editor: John Hooley, Lam Nguyen, Mika Saito, Shirin Nikaein Towfighian. Release Date:January, 2021 This paper explores the causes and consequences of fiscal dominance over monetary policy in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Fiscal dominance has always been a pressing problem as it can contribute to more...
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| Household Financial Access and Risk Sharing in Nigeria Author/Editor: Stacy Carlson, Era Dabla-Norris, Mika Saito, Yu Shi. Release Date:July, 2015 We examine the role of household financial access in determining the extent of risksharingin Nigeria using household-level panel data. We estimate changes in the responseof consumption to shocks for more...
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| Measuring Competitiveness: Trade in Goods or Tasks? Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Mika Saito, Jarkko Turunen. Release Date:May, 2013 With global supply chains, any value added or production task can be traded as part of goods. This means that competitiveness can be measured either in terms of “tasks” (Bems and Johnson, 2012), more...
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 | Japan out of the Lost Decade: Divine Wind or Firms’ Effort? Author/Editor: Kazuo Ogawa, Mika Saito, Ichiro Tokutsu. Release Date:July, 2012 A surge of exports in the 2000s helped Japan exit the severe decade-long stagnation known as the lost decade. Using panel data of Japanese exporting firms, we examine the sources of the export surge more...
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| Trade and Trade Finance in the 2008-09 Financial Crisis Author/Editor: Thomas William Dorsey, Mika Saito, Armine Khachatryan, Irena Asmundson, Ioana Niculcea. Release Date:January, 2011 Global merchandise trade sharply declined in late 2008 and early 2009, and some press and financial market reports assigned a large role for the decline to trade finance. However, the available more...
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 | Trade and the Crisis: Protect or Recover Author/Editor: Mika Saito, Christian Henn, Rob Gregory, Bradley J McDonald. Release Date:April, 2010 The pace of trade reforms waned from the mid-2000s as protectionist sentiment began to increase. With the onset of the global financial crisis, reform progress not only halted but began to reverse. more...
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| A Rule-Based Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Framework for Tanzania Author/Editor: Daehaeng Kim, Mika Saito. Release Date:November, 2009 A zero net domestic financing (NDF) target has served Tanzania well in recent years, contributing to prudent expenditure policy, improved fiscal sustainability, and macroeconomic stability. Moving to more...
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| The Impact of Tradeon Wages : What If Countries Are Not Small? Author/Editor: Ichiro Tokutsu, Mika Saito. Release Date:June, 2006 This paper explores the effect of trade on the relative wage of less-skilled labor through its effect on world prices, which are typically exogenously given under the small open economy assumption. more...
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| Armington Elasticities in Intermediate Inputs Trade: A Problem in Using Multilateral Trade Data : A Problem in Using Multilateral Trade Data Release Date:February, 2004 This paper finds that the estimates of Armington elasticities (the elasticity of substitution between groups of products identified by country of origin) obtained from multilateral trade data can more...
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| Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries: Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility Author/Editor: Mika Saito. Release Date:February, 2004
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