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International Monetary Fund - 1995

variability over a prolonged period of time, against a background of high inflation. Convergence toward international relative and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398244

Export Pricing Behavior of Manufactuting : U.S.-Japan Comparison

International Monetary Fund - 1988

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395791

Estimates of the Output Gap in Armenia with Applications to Monetary and Fiscal Policy

International Monetary Fund - 2010

estimate a New Keynesian Phillips curve for Armenia, suggesting a significant role of the output gap and inflation expectations … in determining current inflation. Finally, the underlying fiscal stance over the period 2000-09 is assessed by estimating …

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Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share

International Monetary Fund - 1989

When the exchange rate fluctuates and the market exhibits hysteresis, planning horizons of domestic and foreign competitors will matter in determining pass-through as well as relative market shares of these firms. Using the Cournot duopoly model, it is shown that if the foreign exporter is a...

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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions

International Monetary Fund - 1999

This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading...

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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...

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Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2000

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such a relationship exists. The empirical analysis is based on data from four different sources for up to 120 countries in the period 1985–98. The association between military...

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Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

International Monetary Fund - 2003

The paper examines empirically the question of whether more unequal societies spend more on income redistribution than their more egalitarian counterparts. Theoretical arguments on this issue are inconclusive. The political economy literature suggests that redistributive spending is higher in...

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The Dynamics of Money Demand and Prices

International Monetary Fund - 1990

The paper evaluates whether a monetary aggregate can serve as a useful predictor of inflation, using recent … of return variables. However, deviations of M2 from its long-run equilibrium value do not significantly enhance inflation …. Nevertheless, changes in M2 do contain information about future inflation, consistent with the view that the demand for money …

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade Flows : Some New Evidence

International Monetary Fund - 2004

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409758

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