[PDF] Imf Staff Papers Volume 48 No 2 eBook

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,84 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.

Author : Mr.Robert P. Flood
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,22 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.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451946953

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WILLIAM. white, who joined the International Monetary Fund in 1948, spent his entire professional life in the Research Department. Present and past staff members, many of whom benefited from his advice, have asked that his contribution-to the work of the Fund should receive recognition in Staff Papers. This appreciation draws on excerpts from written recollections of some of his colleagues.

Author : Mr. Robert P. Flood
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781455252220

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This paper re-examines the issue of the existence of threshold effects in the relationship between inflation and growth, using new econometric techniques that provide appropriate procedures for estimation and inference. The threshold level of inflation above which inflation significantly slows growth is estimated at 1-3 percent for industrial countries and 11-12 percent for developing countries. The negative and significant relationship between inflation and growth, for inflation rates above the threshold level, is quite robust with respect to the estimation method, perturbations in the location of the threshold level, the exclusion of high-inflation observations, data frequency, and alternative specifications.

Author : Mr.Robert P. Flood
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 22,66 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.

Author : Mr.Robert P. Flood
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,15 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.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,74 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.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,84 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.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451947453

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In this paper it is argued that in a system of widespread managed floating, as in a par value system with occasional floating, the problem of asymmetry of adjustment between the issuers of the principal intervention currencies and other countries and the problem of ensuring an effective international management of reserves remain to be solved. If the latter problem is less acute under a floating system, the former problem is potentially more acute than under par values. Although widespread floating would appear to offer no obstacle to the operation of a substitution account, its effect on the acceptability of asset settlement is debatable and it would add considerably to the difficulties of organizing multicurrency intervention. If politically acceptable, a system of guided intervention oriented to an established system of normal exchange rate zones would probably be superior to any other arrangement under floating for the purpose of promoting symmetry in adjustment, while permitting an adequate degree of exchange rate management and avoiding the anomaly of mutually offsetting intervention.