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The Insolvency Regime for Large Enterprises in Italy: An Economic and Legal Assessment

By: Nazim Belhocine,Daniel Garcia-Macia,José Garrido

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The Insolvency Regime for Large Enterprises in Italy: An Economic and Legal Assessment

By: Nazim Belhocine,Daniel Garcia-Macia,José Garrido

The modernization of Italy’s insolvency framework has been the subject of much interest in recent years, related not least to its role in potentially facilitating an efficient allocation of resources. A unique feature of Italy’s insolvency framework is a special regime for large enterprises known as “extraordinary administration”. This paper evaluates the merits of this special regime by assessing its efficacy and success in achieving its stated goals and comparing its features to international standards and best practices. It finds that the special regime tends to impose large costs on creditors and the state. The regime results, in most cases, in the sale of parts of the group, followed by a liquidation phase of the remaining assets which can take longer than the general regime, hindering legal certainty for creditors and more generally economic efficiency, investment and job creation. Based on international best practices and experience, consideration should be given to folding the special regime into the general insolvency regime, possibly with provisions to allow for state intervention in specific well-defined circumstances.

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1484379179

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Assessing Fiscal Stress

By: Iva Petrova,Nazim Belhocine,MissGabriela Dobrescu,Mr.Emanuele Baldacci

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Assessing Fiscal Stress

By: Iva Petrova,Nazim Belhocine,MissGabriela Dobrescu,Mr.Emanuele Baldacci

This paper develops a new index which provides early warning signals of fiscal sustainability problems for advanced and emerging economies. Unlike previous studies, the index assesses the determinants of fiscal stress periods, covering public debt default as well as near-default events. The fiscal stress index depends on a parsimonious set of fiscal indicators, aggregated using the approach proposed by Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1998). The index is used to assess the build up of fiscal stress over time since the mid-1990s in advanced and emering economies. Fiscal stress has increased recently to record-high levels in advanced countries, reflecting raising solvency risks and financing needs. In emerging economies, risks are lower than in mature economies owing to sounder fiscal fundamentals, but fiscal stress remains higher than before the crisis.

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1455254312

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Raising Rates with a Large Balance Sheet: The Eurosystem’s Net Income and Its Fiscal Implications

By: Nazim Belhocine,Mr. Ashok Vir Bhatia,Jan Frie

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Raising Rates with a Large Balance Sheet: The Eurosystem’s Net Income and Its Fiscal Implications

By: Nazim Belhocine,Mr. Ashok Vir Bhatia,Jan Frie

The Eurosystem, having purposefully expanded its footprint in recent years, confronts a period of loss-making as rising policy rates lift the remuneration of bank reserves while assets churn more slowly. This paper projects the net income of the Eurosystem and its “top-five” national central banks over a ten-year horizon, finding that losses, while large, will be temporary and recoupable. The policy conclusions are fourfold. First, the temporary and recoupable nature of the loss-making obviates any need for capital contributions or indemnities from the state, instead allowing losses to be offset against future net income. Second, it must nonetheless be communicated that fiscal impacts will be material, with annual taxes and transfers of 0.1−0.2 percent of GDP giving way to potentially long interruptions in some cases. Third, more-conservative profit distribution policies in the future steady state could help mitigate the on-off pattern of dividends. Finally and most vitally, loss-making must remain orthogonal to monetary policy decision-making, as indeed it is at the ECB. Ultimately, credibility will rest on performance in delivering on the price stability mandate.

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The Impact of Debt Sustainability and the Level of Debt on Emerging Markets Spreads

By: Nazim Belhocine,Mr.Salvatore Dell'Erba

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The Impact of Debt Sustainability and the Level of Debt on Emerging Markets Spreads

By: Nazim Belhocine,Mr.Salvatore Dell'Erba

How do financial markets respond to concerns over debt sustainability and the level of public debt in emerging markets? We introduce a measure of debt sustainability – the difference between the debt stabilizing primary balance and the primary balance–in an otherwise standard spread regression model applied to a panel of 26 emerging market economies. We find that debt sustainability is an important determinant of spreads. In addition, using a panel smooth transition regression model, we find that the sensitivity of spreads to debt sustainability doubles as public debt increases above 45 percent of GDP. These results suggest that market interest rates react more to debt sustainability concerns in a country with a high level of debt compared to a country with a low level of debt.

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1484335880

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9781484335888

Taking Stock of Monetary and Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Europe

By: Nazim Belhocine,Ernesto Crivelli,Ms.Nan Geng,Mr.Johannes Wiegand

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Taking Stock of Monetary and Exchange Rate Regimes in Emerging Europe

By: Nazim Belhocine,Ernesto Crivelli,Ms.Nan Geng,Mr.Johannes Wiegand

The demands on monetary and exchange rate regimes in CESEE have evolved, in line with the region’s development. In the 1990s, the immediate challenge was to rein in excessive inflation following transition, and to establish basic monetary order. These objectives have been achieved, owing largely to successful exchange rate–based stabilization. With this accomplished, the focus has shifted to cyclical monetary management, and to appropriately managing monetary conditions during CESEE’s growth and income convergence to the euro area. Flexible exchange rates—and the ensuing capacity of monetary conditions to adapt to the economies’ needs—are likely to remain advantages, especially to extent that CESEE’s GDP and income levels will resume convergence to the euro area. Once this process restarts, tighter monetary conditions will again be needed to limit goods and asset price inflation, and to contain growth imbalances.

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1475557892

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Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods

The Impact on Canadian GDP

By: Nazim Belhocine

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Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods

The Impact on Canadian GDP

By: Nazim Belhocine

This paper constructs a data set to document firms' expenditures on an identifiable list of intangible items and examines the implications of treating intangible spending as an acquisition of final (investment) goods on GDP growth for Canada. It finds that investment in intangible capital by 2002 is almost as large as the investment in physical capital. This result is in line with similar findings for the U.S. and the U.K. Furthermore, the growth in GDP and labor productivity may be underestimated by as much as 0.1 percentage point per year during this same period.

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1451873875

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Lessons from Two Public Sector Reforms in Italy

By: Nazim Belhocine,La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul

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Lessons from Two Public Sector Reforms in Italy

By: Nazim Belhocine,La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul

The reform of the Italian public administration has been a priority for at least two decades, with several major initiatives undertaken toward modernization and simplification. Notwithstanding laudable intentions, however, progress remains limited. This analysis is a case study of two reforms since 2016—on the rationalization of state-owned enterprises and of public procurement. It finds that original reform provisions were weakened or overturned, regulatory complexity and uncertainties in the application of the reforms blunted their impact, and enforcement mechanisms were inadequate. Addressing these gaps will be essential for successfully modernizing Italy’s public administration.

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1513529714

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Identifying Service Market Reform Priorities in Italy

By: Nazim Belhocine,Daniel Garcia-Macia

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Identifying Service Market Reform Priorities in Italy

By: Nazim Belhocine,Daniel Garcia-Macia

Italy’s labor productivity in market services has declined since 2000, underperforming manufacturing and peer European countries, especially in strongly regulated sectors. A model of monopolistic competition is used to identify which service sectors would benefit more from removing entry and/or exit barriers. Using Italian firm-level data, the paper finds that sectors with high markups, such as professional services, would primarily benefit from removing entry barriers. Sectors with a large mass of unproductive firms, such as retail, would instead benefit from removing exit barriers. Policy recommendations to improve efficiency are outlined in relation to the sectoral priorities identified in the data.

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1513529994

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The Embodiment of Intangible Investment Goods

a Q-Theory Approach

By: Nazim Belhocine

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The Embodiment of Intangible Investment Goods

a Q-Theory Approach

By: Nazim Belhocine

This paper extends the q-theory of investment to model explicitly the decision of firms to invest in intangibles and measures the contribution of intangible goods to the overall capital stock in the U.S. The model highlights the embodiment of intangible goods in tangibles and the role of relative price movements in the measurement of the contribution of each type of investment to the overall capital stock. The downward trend in the aggregate investment deflator series reported by national accounts is found to have a significant downward bias in the 90s. The model also shows that the growth in the overall capital stock from the late-80s until 2000 was driven mainly by an increase in the contribution of intangibles. However, the contribution of intangibles fell consistently after 2000. These results underscore the importance of accounting for the movements in the price of intangibles rather than focusing only on their rising share in overall investment.

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1451982623

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The Stock of Intangible Capital in Canada

Evidence from the Aggregate Value of Securities

By: Nazim Belhocine

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The Stock of Intangible Capital in Canada

Evidence from the Aggregate Value of Securities

By: Nazim Belhocine

This paper measures the size of the stock of intangible capital in Canada using newly released data on the market value of all securities in the economy. The approach taken relies on a quantitative application of the q-theory of investment to generate the quantity of capital owned by firms. I find that the intangible capital stock accounted for approximately 30% of overall capital since 1994. Of this intangible capital stock, the R&D reported by national accounts makes up only 23%. In addition, the finding on the magnitude of the intangible capital stock is comparable to that reported using a cost approach, confirming the size and the relevance of intangibles to macroeconomic models.

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1451873972

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A Historical Public Debt Database

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A Historical Public Debt Database

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This paper describes the compilation of the first truly comprehensive database on gross government debt-to-GDP ratios, covering nearly the entire IMF membership (174 countries) and spanning an exceptionally long time period. The database was constructed by bringing together a number of other datasets and information from original sources. For the most recent years, the data are linked to the IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database to facilitate regular updates. The paper discusses the evolution of debt-to-GDP ratios across country groups for several decades, episodes of debt spikes and reversals, and a pattern of negative correlation between debt and growth.

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