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Social Distancing, Vaccination and Evolution of COVID-19 Transmission Rates in Europe
This paper provides estimates of COVID-19 transmission rates and explains their evolution for selected European countries since the start of the pandemic taking account of changes in voluntary and government m...
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Capital Control Measures: A New Dataset
This paper presents a new data set of capital controls by inflows and outflows for 10 asset categories in 100 countries during 1995–2013. Building on the data inSchindler (2009) and other data sets based on the ...
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Too Small to Thrive: The Housing Finance Market
Acountry’s housing finance system can help or hinder the provision of adequate housing. Access to financial markets influences the capacity of households to buy formal finished dwellings. A more developed mort...
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Productivity and Global Imbalances: The Role of Nontradable Total Factor Productivity in Advanced Economies
This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of the United States, the euro area, and Japan in the emergence and evolution of today's globa...
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The Domestic and Global Impact of Japan’s Policies for Growth
The analysis presented in this chapter illustrates the impact of fiscal and structural reforms on the Japanese and world economies. Japan faces a sizable fiscal deficit, against a backdrop of weak trend growth...
