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Over the past two years, the IMF staff has been developing a new multicountry macroeconomic model called the Global Economy Model (GEM). This paper explains why such a model is needed, how GEM differs from its predecessor model, and how the new features of the model can improve the IMF’s...
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Canada’s macroeconomic and policy performance has continued to outshine most other industrial countries, and its outlook remains favorable. The new government has pledged to maintain the strong social consensus in favor of fiscal surpluses, while aiming at enhancing incentives. The new...
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current consumption leads to an equal increase in inflation. The timing of this increase varies with the size of the deficit …
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This paper takes stock of the evolution of the international monetary system over the last thousand years. Several points stand out from the analysis. One is the reluctance of governments to embrace radical changes in international monetary relations. Another is the conflict between external and...
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Sudanese inflation dramatically fell in 2000. But just prior to the sharp decline, an export ban was placed on Sudanese livestock. Motivated by this clue, and in the absence of any reliable income or employment data, this paper systematically develops simultaneous models of the consumer price...
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can be analyzed as a credibility problem if the government has only one policy instrument, money supply carried out by … solve the credibility problem. They involve printing money or nominal debt and either (1) cutting taxes, (2) buying real … these policy instruments. It commits to higher money supply in the future so that the private sector expects inflation …
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money, surveying the ongoing theoretical and empirical debate. The key conclusion is that an exclusive focus on non … policy decisions by providing a clearer narrative of the relative role of money in the interaction with other economic and …
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Pakistan. A stylized inflation model is specified that includes standard monetary variables (money supply, credit to the …
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real money balances, the approach followed here focuses on the relationship between nominal variables and inflation. The … at the end of the sample. The estimates confirm the strong relationship between money and inflation when M1 is used, with …
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