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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 48, No. 2

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 48,55 MB

Release : 2001-12-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1451974256

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This paper analyzes the link between product variety and economic growth. It finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The paper presents an empirical study for South Africa, which indicates that there exists a stable money demand type of relationship among domestic prices, broad money, real income, and interest rates, as well as a long-term relationship among domestic prices, foreign prices, and the nominal exchange rate.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 48, No. 3

Author : Mr.Robert P. Flood

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 30,15 MB

Release : 2002-01-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1451973799

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This paper analyzes the financial implications of the 1956 crisis of nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt. It examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. The paper quantifies the impact of changes in the U.S. monetary policy on sovereign bond spreads in emerging market countries. Specifically, the paper explores empirically how country risk, as proxied by sovereign bond spreads, is influenced by U.S. monetary policy, country-specific fundamentals, and conditions in global capital markets. Modeling the IMF’s statistical discrepancy in the global current account is also discussed.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 50, No. 2

Author : Mr.Robert P. Flood

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 14,42 MB

Release : 2003-07-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9781589062023

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This paper examines sources of economic growth in East Asia. The conventional growth-accounting approach to estimating the sources of economic growth requires unrealistically strong assumptions about either competitiveness of factor markets or the form of the underlying aggregate production function. The paper outlines a new approach utilizing nonparametric derivative estimation techniques that does not require imposing these restrictive assumptions. The results for East Asian countries show that output elasticities of capital and labor tend to be different from the income shares of these factors. The paper also explores the compensating potential of private intergenerational transfers.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 49, No. 2

Author : Mr.Robert P. Flood

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 16,55 MB

Release : 2002-07-11

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781589061194

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This paper explores sources of the output collapse in Russia during transition. A modified growth-accounting framework is developed that takes into account changes in factor utilization that are typical of the transition process. The results indicate that declines in factor inputs and productivity were both important determinants of the output fall. The paper analyzes the behavior of real commodity prices over the 1862–1999 progress. It also examines whether average stocks of health and education are converging across countries, and calculates the speed of their convergence using data from 84 countries for 1970–90.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 57, No. 2

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 43,65 MB

Release : 2010-06-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1589069129

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This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms covering 91 economies over 1973-2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of financial liberalization, provides descriptive statistics, and discusses some possible applications. The database provides a multifaceted measure of reform, covering seven aspects of financial sector policy. Along each dimension the database provides a graded (rather than a binary) score, and allows for reversals.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 49, No. 3

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 19,99 MB

Release : 2002-09-23

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781589061224

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This paper empirically investigates the monetary impact of banking crises in Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, and Uruguay during 1975–98. Cointegration analysis and error correction modeling are used to research two issues: (i) whether money demand stability is threatened by banking crises; and (ii) whether crises lead to structural breaks in the relation between monetary indicators and prices. Overall, no systematic evidence that banking crises cause money demand instability is found. The paper also analyzes inflation targeting in the context of the IMF-supported adjustment programs.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 3

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 27,68 MB

Release : 2009-07-31

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1589068203

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Studies of the impact of trade openness on growth are based either on crosscountry analysis—which lacks transparency—or case studies—which lack statistical rigor. This paper applies a transparent econometric method drawn from the treatment evaluation literature (matching estimators) to make the comparison between treated (that is, open) and control (that is, closed) countries explicit while remaining within a statistical framework. Matching estimators highlight that common cross-country evidence is based on rather far-fetched country comparisons, which stem from the lack of common support of treated and control countries in the covariate space. The paper therefore advocates paying more attention to appropriate sample restriction in crosscountry macro research.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 53, No. 2

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 11,56 MB

Release : 2006-06-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781589065178

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Noteworthy among the six papers appearing in this latest issue of the IMF's peer-reviewed journal is another installment in the Special Data Section. Anthony Pellechio and John Cady from the IMF's Statistics Department take a close look at differences in IMF data; how and when they could occur; and what the implications of such differences might be for end-users of the IMF's data.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 56, No. 4

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 38,23 MB

Release : 2009-11-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1589069102

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This paper empirically evaluates four types of costs that may result from an international sovereign default: reputational costs, international trade exclusion costs, costs to the domestic economy through the financial system, and political costs to the authorities. It finds that the economic costs are generally significant but short-lived, and sometimes do not operate through conventional channels. The political consequences of a debt crisis, by contrast, seem to be particularly dire for incumbent governments and finance ministers, broadly in line with what happens in currency crises.



IMF Staff Papers, Volume 54, No. 2

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher : International Monetary Fund

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 14,13 MB

Release : 2007-09-26

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1589066502

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Vol. 54, No. 2 includes three notable contributions from the Seventh Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference (ARC) hosted by the IMF in November 2006. Its lead paper, by Olivier Blanchard of Harvard University, is the 2006 Mundell-Fleming Lecture (delivered at the ARC), which analyzes current-account deficits in the advanced economies. Other papers in this issue look at the relationship between international financial integration and the real economy. Other papers discuss whether (or not): i) the next capital account crisis can be predicted; ii) accepted definitions of debt crises are adequate; iii) the Doha Round of trade talks (if they are ever successfully completed) will lead to preference erosion; and finally iv) there is room for political opportunism in countries deciding between money-based or exchange-rate-based stabilization programs.