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Why is China Growing So Fast?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
Since 1978 the Chinese economy has grown on average more than 9 percenta year. Per capita income has nearly quadrupled in the past 15 years andsome analysts predict that within 20 years the Chinese economy will belarger than that of the United States. This pamphlet analyzes the reasonsfor the...
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2012
as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
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A Simple Dge Model for Inflation Targeting
International Monetary Fund - 2007
The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT) emerging market economies. The paper uses a particularly simple and flexible general equilibrium model structure that can be amended to account for various phenomena that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400322
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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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A General Equilibrium Model with Informal Financial Markets
International Monetary Fund - 1991
The paper presents a general equilibrium framework for short-run macroeconomic analysis in a developing country context where controls on interest rates and foreign exchange restrictions lead to the emergence of informal financial markets. The complexity of the model precludes an analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397805
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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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Optimal Incentives to Domestic Investment in the Presence of Capital Flight
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper develops a model of an open economy which employs distortionary taxes to finance public consumption, and with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports and the accompanying set of taxes. A distinction is made...
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Stock Prices, Real Exchange Rates, and Optimal Capital Accumulation
International Monetary Fund - 1988
results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396304
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Interpreting Real Exchange Rate Movements in Transition Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2001
that these appreciations reflect underlying productivity gains in the tradable sector. Using panel data over the period … 1993-98, the results show clear evidence of productivity-driven exchange rate movements in the central and eastern European … expect to experience further productivity-driven real exchange rate appreciations. Evidence from a large cross-section of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403602
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International Spillovers of Taxiation
International Monetary Fund - 1989
of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the … differences in saving and investment propensities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396181