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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times : A Practitioner's Guide
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper reviews several methods to measure wage flexibility, and their suitability for evaluating the extent of such flexibility during times of structural change, when wage distributions and wage curves can be particularly volatile. The paper uses nonparametric estimation to capture possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400692
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Inflation Differentials in the EU : A Common ( Factors ) Approach with Implications for EU8 Euro Adoption Prospects
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor … analysis partitions observed inflation in EU25 countries into common-origin and country-specific (idiosyncratic) components …. Cross-country differences in common-origin inflation within the EU are found to depend on gaps in the initial price level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401399
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Terms of Trade Disturbances, Real Exchange Rates, and Welfare : The Role of Capital Controls and Labor Market Distortions
International Monetary Fund - 1989
Many arguments that have been advanced in favor of maintaining capital controls within the EC have not paid sufficient attention to the welfare consequences of this type of market intervention. Our paper provides a simple, optimizing framework in which the welfare consequences of capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396039
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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets and the Poor
International Monetary Fund - 1990
In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396380
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Trends and Cycles in the U.S. Economy
International Monetary Fund - 1990
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395945
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Staff Report on the Multilateral Consultation on Global Imbalances with China, the Euro Area, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
International Monetary Fund - 2007
Multilateral Consultations are a new tool of multilateral surveillance for the IMF, designed to foster action-oriented debate and policy actions on a problem of systemic or regional importance. The first multilateral consultation focused on facilitating the resolution of global imbalances while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409833
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Fund Surveillance Over Members of Currency Unions
International Monetary Fund - 2005
Effective Fund surveillance over the members of currency unions entails discussions at the regional level. This requirement derives from the fact that currency union members have devolved responsibility for policy areas that are central to Fund surveillance, notably monetary and exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409950
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The SDR Interest Rate Basket : Proposed Change of the Representative Interest Rate for the Euro and Amendment to Rule T-1(C)
International Monetary Fund - 2014
The three-month Eurepo interest rate, the euro component of the SDR interest rate basket, will be discontinued as of the end of 2014. The three-month Eurepo rate, administered by the European Money Market Institute (EMMI), has been the representative interest rate instrument of the euro area in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410559
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Euro Area Policies : Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director on Euro Area Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper focuses on euro area policies. The monetary policy stance remains appropriate for now. Fiscal policies are falling well short of consolidation requirements, and the area remains insufficiently prepared for the looming demographic shock. Past fiscal policy failures, notably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405842
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Inflation Targeting and Output Growth : Empirical Evidence for the European Union
International Monetary Fund - 2005
adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union … credibility, and that a positive inflation target, as opposed to zero inflation, leads to higher and less volatile output. These … countries supports country-specific flexible inflation targeting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400852