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Policy report on FinTech data gaps
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2021 This document aims to provide an overview of the main issues related to data gaps to facilitate monitoring of FinTech and overcome the significant challenges towards incorporating FinTech activities in regular statistics.
José Manuel Marqués +23 more
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Policy responses to COVID-19 in Uruguay
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2023 COVID-19 caused an overwhelming wave with large social and economic consequences and huge policy challenges. We provide an evaluation of the impact of the social, economic, and financial policy measures undertaken to ameliorate its negative consequences ...
Elizabeth Bucacos +3 more
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Risk monitoring in Ecuador's payment system: Implementation of a network topology study
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2021 Payment systems are fundamental pillars of countries’ economic stability and financial systems. Central banks use them to promote safe and efficient electronic payments.
Jeniffer Rubio +2 more
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The contribution of the intra-firm exposures network to systemic risk
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2021 We propose to use a systemic risk metric for an extended network which includes the inter-bank network, the banks-firms bipartite network, and the intrafirm exposures network in Uruguay.
Victoria Landaberry +5 more
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Implementing a retail CBDC: Lessons learned and key insights
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2021 Motivations for introducing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) could range from a rapid decline in the use of physical cash or financial inclusion strategies to an underdeveloped retail payment market.
Raúl Morales-Resendiz +15 more
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Monetary policy communication and inflation expectations: New evidence about tone and readability
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2023 We contribute new empirical evidence on monetary policy communication and inflation expectations by firms. First, we construct a new indicator of the perceived tone of monetary policy communication that complements traditional indicators of the effective
Gianni Carotta +2 more
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Measuring monetary policy transparency in Uruguay
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2023 The adoption of inflation-targeting regimes has led central banks to devote considerable efforts to improve their transparency. Following this trend, several authors have developed tools to measure and compare the levels of transparency of central banks.
Cecilia Dassatti, Gerardo Licandro
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) has become a strategic priority for firms, yet empirical assessments of corporate circularity remain fragmented and heavily dependent on structured indicators or self‐reported metrics. This paper proposes a novel, text‐based circularity index derived from mandatory non‐financial statements of large ...
Giuseppe Pernagallo +2 more
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