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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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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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Trade integration can play a much larger role in boosting shared prosperity. The current focus on trade tensions threatens to obscure the great untapped benefits possible from further trade reform. The opportunities provided by information technology and other fundamental changes in the global...
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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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Spain has achieved impressive growth in recent years—reflecting favorable competitiveness, and the impact on interest …
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Spain’s economy is facing severe challenges. Financial market tensions increased sharply in the wake of the Greek … overhaul of the labor market is urgent. Progress in recent years on product and service market reform should continue. The …
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sustainability in Spain. The first study discusses how best to ensure fiscal discipline at lower levels of government by examining … the institutional setting and mechanisms that make this task particularly challenging in Spain’s highly devolved political … with the fiscal costs of aging in Spain …
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Spain’s 2007 Article IV Consultation underlies that immediate growth prospects are bright and the central scenario is …
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