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Transparency and communication have become central to the IMF's mission. The main thesis is that an important means of … further strengthening the IMF's external communication in the period ahead will be better coordination and integration of … communication with the IMF's policies and operations, especially in country work and for major policy initiatives and issues …
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the IMF's Medium-Term Strategy, further integrate communications with operations, raise the impact of communication tools …
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communication in a world where demand for Fund services continues to rise. Second, doing more to assess the impact of IMF …
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This paper discusses the estimation of models of the term structure of interest rates. After reviewing the term structure models, specifically the Nelson-Siegel Model and Affine Term- Structure Model, this paper estimates the terms structure of Treasury bond yields for the United States with...
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In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international real business cycle model and show that a thoughtful calibration of them along the lines of Raffo (2009) successfully addresses the ""quantity"", ""international comovement"",...
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This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that problems in the housing and financial markets over the past year have combined to slow the United States’ economy substantially. As the residential investment downturn accelerated and national indices of housing prices started falling, mortgage...
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The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...
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