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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2017
Capital flows can deliver substantial benefits for countries, but also have the potential to contribute to a buildup of systemic financial risk. Benefits, such as enhanced investment and consumption smoothing, tend to be greater for countries whose financial and institutional development enables...
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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2017
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The Impact of Introducing a Minimum Wageon Business Cycle Volatility : A Structural Analysis for Hong Kong SAR
International Monetary Fund - 2008
We study the impact of a minimum wage on business cycle volatility, depending upon its coverage and adjustment … affecting 20 percent of employees would amplify output volatility by 0.2 percent to 9.2 percent, and employment volatility by ?1 ….2 percent to 7.8 percent. A fixed wage or indexation to consumption price inflation increases volatility most. Indexation to …
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Interest Rate Volatility and Risk in Indian Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2004
The easing of controls on interest rates has led to higher interest rate volatility in India. Hence, there is a need to …
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Financial globalization : a compilation of articles from Finance & development
Clift, Jeremy (contributor); Diehl, Elisa (contributor) - 2007
Assiduously tracking the trends and consequences of globalization, the IMF's quarterly magazine Finance & Development has been a major forum for discussing-and dissecting-the policy options and challenges faced by governments in an era when many national decisions transcend borders. This...
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Capital Account Liberalization and the Real Exchange Rate in Chile
International Monetary Fund - 2005
After the failure of the early 1980s, a second attempt at capital account liberalization was gradually carried out in Chile during the 1990s, this time in parallel with increased exchange rate flexibility. Capital account regulations were applied to support the independent monetary policy...
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The Credit Boom in the EU New Member States : Bad Luck or Bad Policies?
International Monetary Fund - 2010
In the past decade, most of the EU New Member States experienced a severe credit-boom bust cycle. This paper argues that the credit boom-bust cycle was to a large extent the result of factors external to the region (“bad luck”). Rapid credit growth followed from a high liquidity in global...
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Sterilizing Capital inflows
International Monetary Fund - 1997
Developing countries fortunate enough to experience capital inflows haveseen rising levels of investment and enhanced economic growth. Capitalinflows have a negative side, however, in that they tend to appreciatethe domestic currency, making exports less competitive, and to encourageinflation....
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Report on the Measurement of International Capital Flows
International Monetary Fund - 1992
The Report evaluates statistical practices relating to the measurement of international capital flows. In particular, the principal sources of statistical descrepancies in the component categories of the capital account in the global balance of payments are addressed
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International Capital Markets, 1998
International Monetary Fund - 1998
with volatility in capital flows, banking sector developments in the advanced and emerging markets, initiatives in banking …
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