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    Liquidity, banks, and markets : effects of financial development on banks and the maturity of financial claims

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The amount of liquidity that banks offer depends on the degree of direct participation in financial markets --- that is, on the liquidity of financial markets. Conversely, banks influence the amount of liquidity offered by financial markets.Financial markets and financial institutions compete to provide investors with liquidity.
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    Catching up with Eastern Europe? : the European Union's Mediterranean free trade initiative

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The option of a Euro Mediterranean Agreement gives the Mediterranean countries a unique opportunity to credibly pursue far-reaching trade liberalization gradually. Further unilateral efforts will be required to ensure that Mediterranean countries gain.
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    Japanese multinationals in Asia : capabilities and motivations

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The intangible assets conducive to foreign investment derive not from research but from marketing networks and production skills. The factors most affecting foreign investment in Asia include the human capital of the hosts, the behavior of competitors, and whether earnings can be repatriated.
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    Is commodity - dependence pessimism justified? : critical factors and government policies that characterize dynamic commodity sectors

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Commodity dependence does not necessarily lead to low income and export growth. Government policies that encourage dynamic and viable commodity sectors include:Eliminating price controls and state monopolies. Promoting research and extension. Developing transport and communications infrastructure. Enticing foreign capital and technology transfers.
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    The Latvian banking crisis : lessons learned

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    In the spring of 1995, Latvia experienced the largest banking crisis in the former Soviet Union to date, involving the loss of about 40 percent of the banking system's assets and liabilities. Fleming and Talley outline the Latvian authorities' strategy for developing the banking system and identify how and why it unraveled.
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    The analysis of emerging policy issues in development finance : a survey of the literature

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    A survey of recent economic literature and a case for improving capacity in developing countries to monitor and analyze data on private capital flows, especially portfolio investment flows (through both debt and non debt instruments).Gooptu makes a case for improving capacity in developing countries to monitor and analyze data on private capital flows, especially portfolio investment flows (thr
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    Public finances and economic transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Fiscal accounts will probably remain under pressure in most transition economies.Barbone and Polackova analyze developments in general government spending and revenues for 26 former socialist economies for 1989-94.The data show that, rather than uniformly converting to a "Western European" norm, these reforming economies have followed a variety of patterns.
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    Intra-Industry Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Reorientation of Eastern European Exports

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    To what extent does growth in exports in Central and Eastern Europe reflect economic restructuring and changes in the composition of trade as opposed to "redirection" of traditional CMEA exports to the West?In the first half of the 1990s, after the demise of central planning, exports to OECD countries from many Central and Eastern European countries grew rapidly.
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    The Baltics : banking crises observed

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Lessons learned from banking crises in three Baltic republics crises that all developed in the context of simultaneous transition and adjustment, putting tremendous strain on banks and their enterprise borrowers.Fleming, Chu, and Bakker compare the banking crises experienced in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, examining the causes, effects, and policy responses.The starting point for the thr
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    Banking reform in transition - countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The institutional capacity of banks in transition economies improves faster when a new or parallel private banking system is allowed to emerge than it does when the government tries simply to reform existing state-owned banks.

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