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A Model of Adjustment and Growth : An Empirical Analysis

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper develops a model merging the monetary approach to the balance of payments and a neoclassical growth model into a unified framework in which inflation, growth, and the balance of payments are simultaneously determined. The empirical part of the paper presents estimates of the key...

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Theoretical Aspects of Growth in Developing Countries : External Debt Dynamics and the Role of Human Capital

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper formulates a simple aggregate growth model that is capable of assessing the impact of macroeconomic policies on the long-term performance of a developing country. The model emphasizes expenditures on human capital and the dynamics of external debt, and yields empirically testable...

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The Dynamics of Money Demand and Prices

International Monetary Fund - 1990

The paper evaluates whether a monetary aggregate can serve as a useful predictor of inflation, using recent developments in the principle of cointegrated variables. M2 but not M1 is cointegrated with relevant price, transactions, and rate of return variables. However, deviations of M2 from its...

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Human Capital Flight : Impact of Migrationon Income and Growth

International Monetary Fund - 1994

This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of … occur making convergence unlikely. While in a closed economy, tax-financed increases in subsidy to education can have a … subsidizing higher education is more likely to induce substantial brain drain, it is likely to be inferior to subsidy to lower …

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Stabilization and Growth in an Open Islamic Economy

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Islam proposes the replacement of an interest-based financial system with one which operates on the basis of risk and profit sharing. Using a general equilibrium model, this paper investigates some open-economy implications of the adoption of Islamic banking for growth and stabilization of the...

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from four different sources for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–98. The association between military...

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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2003

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...

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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading...

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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...

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