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Taxation and the Cost of Capital in Hungary and Poland : A Comparison with Selected European Countries
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper compares the effective rates of taxation faced by a representative investor located in a major capital-exporting country for investments in machinery and buildings in nine capital-importing European countries. Poland and Hungary are found to have relatively high effective tax rates on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395865
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Devaluation and Monetary Policy in Developing Countries : A General Equilibrium Model for Economies Facing Financial Constraints
International Monetary Fund - 1987
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395940
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Debt Relief and Leveraged Buy-Outs
International Monetary Fund - 1988
Analyses of debt relief that focus on the behavior of debtors and existing creditors understate the incentives for collective action by creditors. It is well known that debt relief could benefit existing creditors by providing incentives for domestic investment by residents of debtor countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396061
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Changing Patterns in Low-Income Country Financing and Implications for Fund Policies on External Financing and Debt
International Monetary Fund - 2009
Low-income countries (LICs) face significant challenges in meeting their development objectives while maintaining a sustainable debt position. The international community's main answer to this dilemma has been to promote recourse to concessional external resources. The Fund's recommendations to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410137
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Rwanda; 2008 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Perf...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
The staff report for Rwanda’s combined 2008 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion is examined. Sound macroeconomic and structural policies...
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Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Republic of Poland - Credit, Growth, and Financial Stability
International Monetary Fund - 2013
loans are. The chapter is organized as follows: section II.B discusses credit developments in the last decade and factors …-country experiences with policy responses to rapid credit growth of foreign currency credit and discuss recent policy measures taken in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560019
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Czech Republic, Republic of Estonia, Hungary, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic, and Republic of Slovenia : Export Structure and Credit...
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Of the new members entering the European Union (EU) in May 2004, several had achieved a decade of impressive export growth, expanding significantly their shares of world markets. The empirical analysis shows that over the period 1994–2004, quality and technology upgrading associated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404829
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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America
International Monetary Fund - 2012
procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396432
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Japan : Financial Sector Assessment Program—Technical Note on Credit Intermediation
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper is an analysis of Japan’s credit channel. The economic condition has no hindrance, but credit demand showed … aspects act as an impediment to credit control. The Executive Board expects restructuring of financial policies in government … this paper as a study of Japan’s thoughts in an efficient route to credit boom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395722
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Global Liquidity : Credit and Funding Indicators
International Monetary Fund - 2013
This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410545