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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 discusses Article IV, Section 8 of the Articles of Agreement which states the requirement of maintenance of the gold value of the IMF's assets. Each member of the IMF is bound to maintain the gold value of the IMF's holdings of the member's currency notwithstanding changes in the par...
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In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
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rates on indexed assets do not fully reflect real interest rates because of imperfections of backward indexation magnified … by the variability of monthly inflation. Second, while substantial adjustments to interest rates on indexed assets affect … the cyclical position of output and inflation, there is no evidence of a stable, systematic relationship between these …
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On March 22, 2017, the Executive Board adopted the Guidelines for Investing PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trust Assets (the 'Guidelines') to establish the investment objectives and policies to guide the investment of assets of the PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trusts (the'Trusts') which are available for...
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Guidelines for Investing PRG, PRG-HIPC, and CCR Trust Assets (the "Guidelines"), which were adopted on March 22, 2017, were further amended on January 12, 2022, by the Executive Board of the IMF. The Guidelines establish the investment objectives and policies to guide the investment of assets of...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between inflation tax and the level of government spending in a public finance … inflation tax becomes an increasing function of government spending. Furthermore, the more inefficient the tax collection system …, the larger the increase in the inflation tax for a given increase in government spending. A numerical analysis of the …
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This paper explains why sovereign issuers of reserve currencies do not use unexpected inflation to repudiate their … excessive money creation. It is shown that even without policy precommitment or aversion to inflation, the availability of … alternative currencies can support an equilibrium with a finite, time consistent inflation rate …
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We show that the presence of nominal non-indexed government debt could give rise to more than one equilibrium inflation … indeterminacy problem are examined; one solution is shown to be price indexation of debt instruments …
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