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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396226
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Stock Prices, Real Exchange Rates, and Optimal Capital Accumulation
International Monetary Fund - 1988
results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396304
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Optimal Incentives to Domestic Investment in the Presence of Capital Flight
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper develops a model of an open economy which employs distortionary taxes to finance public consumption, and with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports and the accompanying set of taxes. A distinction is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395795
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Investment and Growth in the Arab World : A Scoping Note
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408616
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When in Peril, Retrench : Testing the Portfolio Channel of Contagion
International Monetary Fund - 2004
One plausible mechanism through which financial market shocks may propagate across countries is through the effect of past gains and losses on investors'' risk aversion. We first present a simple model on how heterogeneous changes in investors'' risk aversion affect portfolio decisions and stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402038
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Fiscal Policy and Long-Term Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2015
This paper explores how fiscal policy can affect medium- to long-term growth. It identifies the main channels through which fiscal policy can influence growth and distills practical lessons for policymakers. The particular mix of policy measures, however, will depend on country-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408650
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Why is China Growing So Fast?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
Since 1978 the Chinese economy has grown on average more than 9 percenta year. Per capita income has nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years andsome analysts predict that within 20 years the Chinese economy will belarger than that of the United States. This pamphlet analyzes the reasonsfor the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403126
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Kingdom of Lesotho : Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This Selected Issues paper on the Kingdom of Lesotho reviews the broad objectives and key institutional features of the Common Monetary Area (CMA) relating to currency arrangements. The CMA Agreement provides for the three small member countries to have access to South African capital and money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405576
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Investment : Specific Technology Shocks and International Business Cycles: An Empirical Assessment
International Monetary Fund - 2010
In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international … the relative price of investment to build and estimate these IST processes across the U.S and a ""rest of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397271
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Ghana : Background Information on Output and Investment Performance
International Monetary Fund - 1995
This paper examines some factors that may have accounted for the investment and growth performance of Ghana during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397501