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closer integration of world capital markets. By reducing constraints on international capital flows, this movement makes the …
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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, reserves, capital flows, and external balance sheets of the world's largest economies. The 2018 edition includes an analytical …
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This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment … non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries exhibit much lower saving-investment correlations than their non …
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, the limited tools available to policymakers to affect savings are discussed. Finally, the extent to which recent tax …
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among the factors that have contributed most to delaying the private sector’s investment response and preventing a …
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This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. We incorporate a multi-country Ricardian model of trade, based on the work of Eaton and Kortum (2002), into a macroeconomic model to show how bilateral real exchange rate volatility depends on relative technological...
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This paper provides a theoretical underpinning for the major determinants of optimal reserve demand in the case where fundamental disequilibrium constitutes a key element governing reserve management. Emphasis is given to the role of reserves to smooth the process of economic adjustment by...
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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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 inferences about the key determinants of savings behavior. The …
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