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European Financial Linkages : A New Look At Imbalances
International Monetary Fund - 2010
financing of Euro area imbalances. Creditor and debtor positions vis-à-vis the rest of the EU have tended to increase between … increased interdependency among Euro Area economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403092
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Report on the World Current Account Discrepancy
International Monetary Fund - 1987
The IMF, in cooperation with other concerned organizations, set up a working party to investigate and improve the statistical procedures being used, and to recommend compilation procedures that would make nations' balance of payments statistics more consistent with one another. In addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014412188
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Fiscal Policy and the Current Account
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between fiscal policy and the current account, drawing on a larger country sample than in previous studies and using panel regressions, vector autoregressions, and an analysis of large fiscal and external adjustments. On average, a strengthening in the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402866
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Model of the U.S. Current Account
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper presents an econometric model of U.S. current account transactions. The model is used to analyze the factors behind the deterioration in the U.S. external position during the 1980s and to examine the sensitivity of the U.S. current account balance to changes in factors which are its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396470
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Balance of Payments Imbalances
International Monetary Fund - 2007
This paper focuses on the developing countries, which accounted for nearly half the value of those surpluses, were apparently unable to find sufficiently profitable investments at home that overcame market and political risk. The United States a decade ago likely could not have run up today's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397180
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The U.S. Current Account Deficit and the Global Economy
International Monetary Fund - 2004
This paper presents the views of Lawrence H. Summers on the U.S. current account deficit and the global economy. Summers highlights that the U.S. current account deficit is currently running well in excess of US$600 billion at an annual rate, in the range of 5.5 percent of GDP. It represents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402146
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External Sector Report, July 2018 : Tackling Global Imbalances amid Rising Trade Tensions
International Monetary Fund - 2018
The External Sector Report presents a methodologically consistent assessment of the exchange rates, current accounts, reserves, capital flows, and external balance sheets of the world's largest economies. The 2018 edition includes an analytical assessment of how trade costs and related policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408937
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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
facilitating the resolution of global imbalances while sustaining robust global growth. China, the euro area, Japan, Saudi Arabia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409833
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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 … representative interest rate instrument of the euro area in the SDR interest rate basket since 2006. However, faced with a … secondary market yield curve covering euro area government bonds rated either investment grade or AA and above. In staff's view …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410559
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401399