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The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...
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This paper presents an econometric model of U.S. current account transactions. The model is used to analyze the factors behind the deterioration in the U.S. external position during the 1980s and to examine the sensitivity of the U.S. current account balance to changes in factors which are its...
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This paper considers the demand for various monetary aggregates with a view to assessing their potential roles as intermediate variables for monetary policy. Illustrative estimates using a generalized autoregressive distributed lag model are presented. For M1, the results support an “error...
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This paper presents three empirical approaches to forecasting inflation in Pakistan. The preferred approach is a … leading indicators model in which broad money growth and private sector credit growth help forecast inflation. A univariate … approach also yields reasonable forecasts, but seems less suited to capturing turning points. A vector autoregressive (VAR …
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The thrust of the report's recommendations to strengthen the institutional framework for self-evaluation, adapt it over … time to changing circumstances, and better disseminate lessons from self-evaluation are well taken. I believe, however …
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I would like to thank the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) for preparing this informative and timely report, which …
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The Managing Director welcomes the IEO's novel report, which identifies recurring issues from past evaluations and assesses progress in addressing them. The report's focus on organizational silos, attention to risks and uncertainty, country and institutional context, evenhandedness, and...
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Executive Directors welcomed the report of the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) on IMF Advice on Capital Flows …
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This paper seeks to advance the discussion of monetary policy strategies in several ways. One involves a comparison of targets for nominal GNP and the price level, with emphasis on specificational robustness and implications for output variability. A second pertains to various “indicator”...
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regarding the forecasts of future exchange rates made by market participants, by means of updated estimates using survey data …
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