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Contacts, Credibility and Common Knowledge : Their Influenceon Inflation Convergence

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper explains why sovereign issuers of reserve currencies do not use unexpected inflation to repudiate their foreign liabilities. Monetary restraint is exercised because of the fear that reserve users will switch to other currencies if an attempt is made to raise “excessive” revenue....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396294

Dissemination of Technical Assistance Information

International Monetary Fund - 2008

This paper sets out a framework for streamlined and strengthened procedures for the wider dissemination of technical assistance-related information ("TA Information"). On the basis of this framework, management intends to issue guidelines to the staff setting forth these new procedures

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410167

Bidding Behavior in Treasury Bill Auctions : Evidence From Pakistan

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Behavior in the first three years of auctions for Pakistani treasury bills is studied. Bidding strategies rapidly converged to a consistent pattern after the auctions started in 1991. Factors are identified that influenced the expected profitability of auction participation, which was on average...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399895

Italy : Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System

International Monetary Fund - 2007

The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in … other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400137

Competition in Indian Banking

International Monetary Fund - 2005

It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400691

Competitiveness in the Baltics in the Run-Up to EU Accession

International Monetary Fund - 2003

This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since the start of the transition process. In the earlier years of transition, price liberalization,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407140

Republic of Kazakhstan : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update—Technical Note—Bank Profitability and Competition

International Monetary Fund - 2004

competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407263

Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs : An Application to Slovakia

International Monetary Fund - 2012

Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can result in analytical errors and mistaken policy advice. Furthermore, aggregate statistical measures of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396613

Optimum currency areas : new analytical and policy developments

Bléjer, Mario I. (ed.) - International Monetary Fund - 1997

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000967231

Maintenance of the gold value of the fund's assets

Gold, Joseph - 1965

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000663179

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