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A Compass to Prosperity : The Next Steps of Euro Area Economic Integration
International Monetary Fund - 2018
A speech delivered by the IMF's Managing Director Christine Lagarde at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) as part of the Institute's Europe Lecture Series in Berlin, Germany, on March 26, 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408263
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Western Europe in transition : the impact of the opening up of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; [main paper ; panel discussion]
DeFontenay, Patrick; Gomel, Giorgio; Hochreiter, Eduard; … - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000563647
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European Financial Linkages; A New Look At Imbalances
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
We document external investment positions among European Union countries at the start of the financial crisis through the creation of a new database comprising bilateral external financial asset and liabilities, excluding reserve assets and derivatives. While there are some gaps in the data, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839331
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Optimum currency areas : new analytical and policy developments
Bléjer, Mario I. (ed.) - International Monetary Fund - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000967231
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Options for Low Income Countries' Effective and Efficient Use of Tax Incentives for Investment : Tools for the Assessment of Tax Incentives
International Monetary Fund - 2015
This background paper describes five different tools that can be used for the assessment of tax incentives by governments in low income countries' (LICs). The first tool (an application of cost-benefit analysis) provides an overarching framework for assessment. Evaluations of the various costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644783
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COVID-19 : The Regulatory and Supervisory Implications for the Banking Sector
International Monetary Fund - 2020
This note provides a set of high-level recommendations that can guide national regulatory and supervisory responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and offers an overview of measures taken across jurisdictions to date. The banking sector plays a critical role in mitigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647142
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Integrating Europe's financial markets
Decressin, Jörg (contributor); Faruqee, Hamid (contributor) - 2007
By and large, EU financial integration has been a success story. Still, the reform agenda is far from finished. What … are the remaining challenges going forward? What are the gains of closer financial market integration? This IMF book … that remain ahead. It pays particular attention to the most recent integration efforts in the European Union following the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012673981
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Following Germany'S Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policyon the Economy
International Monetary Fund - 2005
Forward-looking behavior on the part of the monetary authority leads least squares estimates to understate the true growth consequences of monetary policy interventions. We present instrumental variables estimates of the impact of interest rates on real output growth for several European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400699
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Inflation Targeting and Output Growth : Empirical Evidence for the European Union
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper evaluates the performance of two alternative policy rules, a forward-looking rule and a spontaneous adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union data. The simulations suggest that forward-looking rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400852
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How to Stop a Herd of Running Bears? Market Response to Policy Initiatives During the Global Financial Crisis
International Monetary Fund - 2009
This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic and financial sector policy announcements in the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia. Announcements of interest rate cuts, liquidity support, liability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402377