Portfolio value management deals with the problem of how to determine a portfolio such that the associated portfolio value moves in some desired direction. Two models of portfolio management are presented. The first (second) model considers the case where the portfolio value moves exactly (at...

In recent years, Fund staff has prepared cross-country analyses of macroeconomic vulnerabilities in low-income countries, focusing on the risk of sharp declines in economic growth and of debt distress. We discuss routes to broadening this focus by adding several macroeconomic and macrofinancial...

In multiperiod portfolio selection one faces the problem of choosing a proper multiperiod utility function, to determine the planning horizon and the number of future opportunities as well as the financial consequences of these opportunities. In this paper an alternative approach is proposed...