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Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share
International Monetary Fund - 1989
When the exchange rate fluctuates and the market exhibits hysteresis, planning horizons of domestic and foreign competitors will matter in determining pass-through as well as relative market shares of these firms. Using the Cournot duopoly model, it is shown that if the foreign exporter is a...
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Republic of Kazakhstan : Financial Sector Assessment Program Update—Technical Note—Bank Profitability and Competition
International Monetary Fund - 2004
This technical note explores the reasons for a comparatively high interest rate spread in Kazakhstan in the context of competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared with...
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Managing Public Debt-Formulating Strategies and Strengthening Institutional Capacity
International Monetary Fund - 2009
In May 2007, the IMF and World Bank Boards discussed the paper "Strengthening Debt Management Practices: Lessons from … management (PDM) work program that was particularly focused on strengthening frameworks and capacity in low-income countries … Management Strategy (MTDS) and apply it in 4-6 countries a year; (ii) undertake debt management performance assessments; and (iii …
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Statement by the Managing Director on Updating the Strategic Directions in the Medium-Term Budget : Executive Board Meeting
International Monetary Fund - 2011
In early 2008, the Fund launched ambitious reforms to enhance its ability to deliver the economic and financial analysis, member support, and multilateral collaboration essential to promote global stability. The reform agenda called for: (i) stronger surveillance through sharpened multilateral...
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Mexico; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note: Strategic Issues in Development Bank Reform
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This technical note on strategic issues in Development Bank (DB) reform for Mexico examines advances in the area of DB and funds in 2000–05. There have been significant but uneven changes in the institutional setting, instruments, transparency of subsidies, and performance behavior of DBs...
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Export Pricing Behavior of Manufactuting : U.S.-Japan Comparison
International Monetary Fund - 1988
Using domestic and export price data and a framework of markup over cost, pricing behavior of U.S. and Japanese manufacturers is compared. Major export industries in Japan have higher productivity growth and lower pass-through coefficients than American exporters, who tend to price to domestic...
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The role of the International Monetary Fund in promoting price stability
Gardner, Walter R. - In: Staff papers / International Monetary Fund 7 (1960) 3, pp. 319-326
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Grenada : Joint Bank-Fund Debt Sustainability Analysis, 2018 Update
International Development Association - 2018
This report provides a Debt Sustainability Analysis (LIC-DSA) of Grenada's public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) external and total debt for 2018. The macro-framework incorporates all previous debt restructurings, including the November 2017 haircut on commercial debt. Total public debt has...
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Benin - Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
public investment management, and enhanced debt management capacity are needed to reduce debt vulnerabilities …
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Grenada - Joint World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis
World Bank Group - 2019
With some 19 million US Dollars (1.6 percent of GDP) in unresolved arrears to official bilateral creditors, Grenada remains in external public debt distress. However, debt appears sustainable reflecting favorable projected debt dynamics from substantial fiscal surpluses that are supported by the...
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