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Germany : Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
International Monetary Fund - 2010
/CFT) measures for Germany. The report reveals that Germany has introduced a number of measures in recent years to strengthen its AML …/CFT regime. Germany has generated a relatively large number of prosecutions for money laundering and orders to confiscate assets …. These achievements occurred even though Germany has shortcomings identified in this assessment against the Financial Action …
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Germany : Report on Observance of Standards and Codes-FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
International Monetary Fund - 2010
antimoney laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) for Germany. The report reveals that the AML …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407511
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Germany : Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
International Monetary Fund - 2004
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism on Germany. In preparing the detailed assessment … systems. Germany is reviewing new legislation to re-address the issue of the criminalization of terrorist financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407633
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Advancing the frontiers of monetary policy
Adrian, Tobias (ed.); Laxton, Douglas (ed.);  … - 2018
Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including managing short-term policy trade-offs. The book also outlines efficient operational procedures and reviews the experiences of Canada, the Czech Republic, and India. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874333
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Does the Exchange Regime Matter for inflation and Growth?
International Monetary Fund - 1996
Although the theoretical relationships are ambiguous, evidence suggestsa strong link between the choice of the exchange rate regime and economicperformance. The paper argues that adopting a pegged exchange rate canlead to lower inflation, but also to slower growth in productivity. Itfinds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399171
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399916
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Fiscal Decentralization and Governance : A Cross-Country Analysis
International Monetary Fund - 2001
Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilization functions to subnational levels of government-is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401240
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Oil Shocks and External Balances
International Monetary Fund - 2007
This paper studies the effects of demand and supply shocks in the global crude oil market on several measures of countries'' external balance, including the oil and non-oil trade balances, the current account, and changes in net foreign assets (NFA) during 1975-2004. We explicitly take a global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401265
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Fiscal Transparency and Economic Outcomes
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper develops indices of fiscal transparency for a broad range of countries based on the IMF''s Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency, using data derived from published fiscal transparency modules of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSCs). The indices covers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401735
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402215