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Trade and Investment Performance Under Floating Exchange Rates : The U.S. Experience

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Contrary to the arguments of several scholars, we have failed to find either a conclusive theoretical case or clear empirical evidence of an effect, harmful or otherwise, of exchange rate variability (as measured by either short-term volatility or long-run misalignment) on overall levels of...

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Separate Identification of the Chinese Renminbi in the COFER Survey

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Following the recent Executive Board decisions on the determination of the renminbi (RMB) as a freely usable currency, effective October 1, 2016, and its inclusion in the SDR basket on the same date, STA intends to separately identify the RMB in the survey on Currency Composition of Official...

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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...

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Negative Interest Rate Policies-Initial Experiences and Assessments

International Monetary Fund - 2017

The depth of the crisis and the weakness of the ensuing recovery led to new ways to implement monetary policy. At the onset of the crisis, central banks in several advanced economies quickly moved policy rates to zero and initiated large-scale asset purchases. In more recent years, with...

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2016 Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : Review of Interest Rate Structure

International Monetary Fund - 2016

setting mechanism agreed in 2009, the interest rate for the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) would be zero and the rate for the … Standby Credit Facility (SCF) would be 0.25 percent. The interest rate for the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) was set permanently … interest waivers on all outstanding Fund concessional credit, setting all interest rates charged at zero percent. These waivers …

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