 | A Time to Build: Does TA Matter for Revenue Mobilization? Author/Editor: Ralph Chami, Elorm Darkey, Oral Williams. Release Date:February, 2021 We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000–18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors’ knowledge this more...
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| Do Remittances Enhance Financial Inclusion in LMICs and in Fragile States? Author/Editor: Sami Ben Naceur, Ralph Chami, Mohamed Trabelsi. Release Date:May, 2020 This paper explores the relationship between remittances and financial inclusion for a sample of 187 countries over the period 2004-2015, using cross-country as well as dynamic panel GMM regressions. more...
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| Riding the Yield Curve: Risk Taking Behavior in a Low Interest Rate Environment Author/Editor: Ralph Chami, Thomas F Cosimano, Celine Rochon, Julieta Yung. Release Date:March, 2020 Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds of different maturities. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rate environment by more...
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| Bank Capital and the Cost of Equity Author/Editor: Mohamed Belkhir, Sami Ben Naceur, Ralph Chami, Anis Semet. Release Date:December, 2019 Using a sample of publicly listed banks from 62 countries over the 1991-2017 period, we investigate the impact of capital on banks’ cost of equity. Consistent with the theoretical prediction that more...
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| Are Remittances Good for Labor Markets in LICs, MICs and Fragile States? Author/Editor: Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, Anne Oeking. Release Date:May, 2018 We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes. Remittances appear to have a strong impact on both labor supply and labor demand in recipient countries. These more...
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| Back to the Future: The Nature of Regulatory Capital Requirements Author/Editor: Ralph Chami, Thomas F Cosimano, Emanuel Kopp, Celine Rochon. Release Date:August, 2017 This paper compares the current regulatory capital requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) and the 10-percent leverage ratio, as proposed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. House of more...
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| What's Different about Bank Holding Companies? Author/Editor: Ralph Chami, Thomas F Cosimano, Jun Ma, Celine Rochon. Release Date:February, 2017 The recent fnancial crisis highlighted the role of Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) in exacerbating the crisis and in transmitting monetary policy beyond the local economy to global markets. Yet, little more...
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| What's Different about Monetary Policy Transmission in Remittance-Dependent Countries? Author/Editor: Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian H Ebeke, Anne Oeking. Release Date:March, 2016 Despite welfare and poverty-reducing benefits for recipient households, remittance inflows have been shown to entail macroeconomic challenges; producing Dutch Disease-type effects through their more...
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| The Finance and Growth Nexus Re-Examined: Do All Countries Benefit Equally? Author/Editor: Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Reza Yousefi. Release Date:May, 2013 A large theoretical and empirical literature has focused on the impact of financial deepening on economic growth throughout the world. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating more...
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 | Workers' Remittances: An Overlooked Channel of International Business Cycle Transmission? Author/Editor: Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Ebeke, Sampawende J -A Tapsoba. Release Date:October, 2012 This paper shows that remittance flows significantly increase the business cycle synchronization between remittance-recipient countries and the rest of the world. Using both aggregate and bilateral more...
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