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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France
International Monetary Fund - 1997
various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401626
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Kingdom of the Netherlands-Aruba; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper analyzes sustaining potential growth in Aruba. As in the other Caribbean countries, there are growing concerns in Aruba about the slowdown in economic growth over the past two decades and the consequent tepid outlook for potential growth. Tackling such concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245149
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Nigeria; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
plan, the government will seek long-term capital for investment. Trade policy will be modified to unburden business of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591671
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Will Natural Gas Prices Decouple From Oil Prices Across the Pond?
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
We show that US natural gas prices have decoupled from oil prices following substantial institutional and technological changes. We then examine how this interrelationship has evolved in Europe using data for Algeria, one of Europe’s key gas suppliers. Taking into account total gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151207
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Algeria; Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper assesses recent developments in gas markets and the implications for Algerian gas demand and prices. Algeria’s gas production is stable but its share in global gas production has been on a downward trend since the early 2000s. The impact of a change in the spot oil price (WTI)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242810
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The dynamic implications of debt relief for low-income countries
Romero-Barrutieta, Alma Lucía - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424818
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Business Cycles in Emerging Markets; The Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper examines how durable goods and financial frictions shape the business cycle of a small open economy subject to shocks to trend and transitory shocks. In the data, nondurable consumption is not as volatile as income for both developed and emerging market economies. The simulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151224
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A Simple Dge Model for Inflation Targeting
International Monetary Fund - 2007
The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT … amended to account for various phenomena that often complicate policy analysis in emerging markets, such as persistent trends … calibrating small ''gap'' models of monetary policy transmission. Moreover, the definition of the model''s steady state in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400322
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Export Versus FDI in Services
International Monetary Fund - 2010
In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403090
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Economic Structure, the Exchange Rate and Adjustment in the Federal Republic of Germany : A General Equilibrium Approach
International Monetary Fund - 1988
model under alternative structural policy scenarios. In the first scenario, characterized by severe structural rigidities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395794