 | Renminbi Usage in Cross-Border Payments: Regional Patterns and the Role of Swaps Lines and Offshore Clearing Banks Author/Editor: Hector Perez-Saiz, Longmei Zhang. Release Date:March, 2023 The paper examines the usage of the Renminbi (RMB) as an international payment currency. Globally, the use of RMB remains small, accounting for 2 percent of total cross-border transactions. Using more...
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 | Currency Usage for Cross Border Payments Author/Editor: Hector Perez-Saiz, Longmei Zhang, Roshan Iyer. Release Date:March, 2023 While the global usage of currencies other than the U.S. dollar and the euro for cross-border payments remains limited, rapid technological (e.g. digital money) or geopolitical changes could more...
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 | The African Continental Free Trade Area: Potential Economic Impact and Challenges Author/Editor: Lisandro Abrego, Mario de Zamaroczy, Tunc Gursoy, Garth P Nicholls, Hector Perez-Saiz, Jose-Nicolas Rosas. Release Date:May, 2020 Political momentum towards Africa-wide free trade has been intensifying. In March 2018, over 40 countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. Once fully implemented, more...
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 | Stress Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa : Practices, Communications, and Capacity Development Author/Editor: Mindaugas Leika, Hector Perez-Saiz, Olga Ilinichna Stankova, Torsten Wezel. Release Date:May, 2020 The paper finds that supervisory stress tests are conducted in more than half of sub-Saharan African countries, particularly in western and southern Africa, and that the number of individual stress more...
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 | The Impact of Remittances on Economic Activity: The Importance of Sectoral Linkages Author/Editor: Hector Perez-Saiz, Jemma Dridi, Tunc Gursoy, Mounir Bari. Release Date:August, 2019 We propose a simple macroeconomic model with input-output sectoral linkages based on Acemoglu et al. (2016) to quantify how changes in aggregate demand due to additional income from household’s more...
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 | The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Welfare Gains Estimates from a General Equilibrium Model Author/Editor: Lisandro Abrego, Maria Alejandra Amado, Tunc Gursoy, Garth P Nicholls, Hector Perez-Saiz. Release Date:June, 2019 In March 2018, representatives of member countries of the African Union signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. This agreement provides a framework for trade liberalization more...
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