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Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2016-12-31)
Financial systems have been expanding, offering more services for savings, credit, investment, insurance, and retirement. However, much remains to be done to provide quality services at low cost to people and small businesses in both urban and rural ...
Divergent Monetary Policies and International Dollar Credit: Evidence from Bank-Level Data
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-05-30)
This paper uses a comprehensive and detailed bank-level data set to study how the divergence of central bank balance sheet policy in the US vis-à-vis the euro area and Japan affects the supply of international US dollar loans by global banks. Our ...
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Conditions for Effective Macroprudential Policy Interventions
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-02-28)This paper aims at identifying effective macroprudential policy (MPP) interventions and analysing the macroeconomic conditions that promote them. We define effective MPP interventions as those that stabilize its underlying target variable, such as ... -
Why and how should we value unpaid work?
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2020-02-28)Housework goes by many names—home production or nonmarket work (Becker 1965; Gronau 1977), unpaid work (Elson 2000), and reproductive roles (coined by Marxist economics). Housework includes caregiving for young and old people as well as work related ... -
The Dollar as the Dominant Global Reserve Currency: A Threat to Financial Stability?
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2020-02-28)Today, the US dollar is the world’s dominant, if in practice also the sole, reserve currency. This makes financial stability across the world hostage to swing in the dollar and hence to America’s economic fortunes. How Asian economies manage this ... -
The Fate of Job Creation in the Philippines Amid the Automation Revolution: A Firm-Level Analysis
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-02-28)Using the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey for the Philippines, our analysis found that, on average, firms that deployed partial or full automation in their operations were more likely to hire more workers than fewer relative to their counterpart firms. ... -
Greenfield Investments as a Source of Sustainable Green Finance? On the Relationships Between Greenfield Investments, Environmental Performance, and Asian Economic Growth
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020-02-28)Can economic growth continue without degrading the quality of the environment? This question has led to a lot of inconclusive findings among researchers. This study examines the impact of greenfield investment, human capital, economic activities, and ... -
Attraction or Repulsion? Testing Coagglomeration of Innovation between Firm and University
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-02-28)Agglomeration theory supports and existing findings confirm the geographical proximity of similar firms and spatial attraction of firms to universities. In addition to that, we are able to identify whether universities as one type of innovative units ... -
Social Media for Business: An Initial Scoping Exercise for Sri Lanka
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2020-02-26)Social media outlets such as Facebook (FB) and lnstagram (IG) are increasingly being used by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Sri Lanka as a platform for business. As of January 2018, there were 6 million active social media users in Sri ... -
NZIER’s Shadow Board see risks to both sides of the current OCR
(New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2020-02-10)There remains a wide range of views amongst the NZIER Policy Shadow Board on the appropriate level of the OCR at the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) release on Wednesday. Although Shadow Board members acknowledged the positive developments in the New ... -
Data- and AI-driven Economic Growth in a General Equilibrium Model
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2020-02-06)We attempt to characterize a data- and AI driven economy and establish a general equilibrium growth model in order to describe the data economy and examine how data and AI can affect the economy in the long run. The constructed growth model herein is ... -
Enhancing Gender Responsiveness of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Viet Nam
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-01-30)The sectors with projected high demand for TVET-level qualified personnel include construction, electronics, extractive industries, information technology, mechanics, metallurgy, office occupations, processing, textile, tourism, and transport. Historically, ...