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Labor Market Regulations in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A New Panel Database

Author/Editor: Mariya Aleksynska, Martin Schindler.

Release Date:July, 2011

This paper documents a new database of labor market regulations during 1980-2005 in 91 countries, including low-, middle- and high-income countries, and contains information on unemployment insurance more...



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Global Shocks and their Impact on Low-Income Countries: Lessons from theGlobal Financial Crisis

Author/Editor: Hans Weisfeld, Catherine A. Pattillo, Martin Schindler, Nicola Spatafora, Andrew Berg, Chris Papageorgiou.

Release Date:February, 2011

This paper investigates the short-run effects of the 2007-09 global financial crisis on growth in (mainly non-fuel exporting) low-income countries (LICs). Four conclusions stand out. First, for many more...



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Growth and Structural Reforms: A New Assessment

Author/Editor: Thierry Tressel, Martin Schindler, Lone Engbo Christiansen.

Release Date:December, 2009

This paper presents a simultaneous assessment of the relationship between economic performance and three groups of economic reforms: domestic finance, trade, and the capital account. Among these, more...



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Controlling Capital? Legal Restrictions and the Asset Composition of International Financial Flows

Author/Editor: Martin Schindler, Mahir Binici, Michael Hutchison.

Release Date:September, 2009

How effective are capital account restrictions? We provide new answers based on a novel panel data set of capital controls, disaggregated by asset class and by inflows/outflows, covering 74 countries more...



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Who Benefits from Capital Account Liberalization? Evidence from Firm-Level Credit Ratings Data

Author/Editor: Martin Schindler, Patricio Valenzuela, Alessandro Prati.

Release Date:September, 2009

We provide new firm-level evidence on the effects of capital account liberalization. Based on corporate foreign-currency credit ratings data and a novel capital account restrictions index, we find more...



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Fiscal Multipliers

Author/Editor: Martin Schindler, Antonio Spilimbergo, Steven A. Symansky.

Release Date:May, 2009



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Fiscal Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa in Response to the Impact of the Global Crisis

Author/Editor: Norbert Funke, Martin Schindler, Victor Duarte Lledo, Irene Yackovlev, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Rolando Ossowski, Antonio Spilimbergo, Shamsuddin Tareq, Andrew Berg.

Release Date:May, 2009



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The Italian Labor Market: Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options

Author/Editor: Martin Schindler.

Release Date:March, 2009

Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. more...



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Reaping the Benefits of Financial Globalization

Author/Editor: M. Ayhan Kose, Julian di Giovanni, André Faria, Martin Schindler, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Paolo Mauro, Jonathan David Ostry, Marco Terrones.

Release Date:December, 2008

Financial globalization has increased dramatically over the past three decades, particularly for advanced economies, while emerging market and developing countries experienced more moderate more...



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Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: An Example

Author/Editor: Damien Gaumont, Randall Wright, Martin Schindler.

Release Date:January, 2006

Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be more...



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