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Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) are measures that indicate the current financial health and soundness of a country's financial institutions, and their corporate and household counterparts. FSIs include both aggregated individual institution data and indicators that are representative of...
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This paper examines the construction of the index and its use over the past seven years, identifies its limitations …
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significantly improves the fit of regressions of a multi-country consumer price index. However, there does not appear to be a …
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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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The consumer price index (CPI) measures the rate at which the prices of consumer goods and services are changing over …
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The producer price index (PPI) measures the rate at which the prices of producer goods and services are changing … overtime. It is a key statistic for economic and business decision making and inflation monitoring. The Producer Price Index … National Accounts1993 and recent developments in index number theory. Preparation of the Manual was undertaken by the …
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A joint production by six international organizations, this manual explores the conceptual and theoretical issues that national statistical offices should consider in the daily compilation of export and import price indices. Intended for use by both developed and developing countries, it...
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This paper describes the result and the methodology of updating nominal and real effective exchange rate weights on the basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF''s current effective exchange rate calculation, which uses weights largely based...
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This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented
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