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Interest rates in China comprise a mix of both market determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and … regulated interest rates (lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. We …
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may be accumulating, and tight prudential standards and fiscal measures will be required to tame price inflation. …
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This selected issues paper on Indonesia was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with the member country. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed on August 21, 2012. The views expressed...
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reflecting a large domestic output gap generated by many years of high investment. Inflation varies systemically within China … lower-income provinces. Higher Mainland food inflation also raises inflation in non-Mainland China …Chinese inflation, particularly non-food inflation, has been surprisingly modest in recent years. We find that supply …
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Following the recent Executive Board decisions on the determination of the renminbi (RMB) as a freely usable currency …
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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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There is a widespread view that the adjustment of U.S. trade prices--and hence merchandise trade flows--in the face of the substantial dollar depreciation since early 1985 has been slower than might have been expected. This paper examines the recent behavior of U.S. trade prices, and concludes...
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Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...
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This technical note examines the macroprudential policy framework in the Czech Republic. The Czech National Bank (CNB) has been actively developing its macroprudential policy framework for some time, including most recently the establishment of a separate Financial Stability Department. The...
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