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The Fiscal Costs of Contingent Liabilities : A New Dataset

Author/Editor: Elva Bova, Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Frederik G Toscani, H. Elif Ture.

Release Date:February, 2016

We construct the first comprehensive dataset of contingent liability realizations in advanced and emerging markets for the period 1990–2014. We find that contingent liability realizations are a more...



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Are Emerging Asia’s Reserves Really Too High?

Author/Editor: Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Milan Zavadjil.

Release Date:August, 2008

Empirical analysis does not suggest that reserves are too high in the majority of Asian countries, though China may be a special case. Much of the reserve increase in Asia can be explained by an more...



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Are Workers' Remittances a Hedge Against Macroeconomic Shocks? the Case of Sri Lanka

Author/Editor: Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Erik Lueth.

Release Date:February, 2007

We estimate a vector error correction (VEC) model for Sri Lanka to determine the response of remittance receipts to macroeconomic shocks. This is the first attempt of its kind in the literature. We more...



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Debt Overhang or Debt Irrelevance? Revisiting the Debt-Growth Link

Author/Editor: Tito Cordella, Luca Antonio Ricci, Marta Ruiz-Arranz.

Release Date:December, 2005

Do Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) suffer from a debt overhang? Is debt relief going to improve their growth rates? To answer these important questions, we look at how the debt-growth more...



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Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth

Author/Editor: Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Paola Giuliano.

Release Date:December, 2005

There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data more...



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