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A Noteon Saving-Investment Correlations in the EMS
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper extends recent work by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Bayoumi (1990), and examines saving-investment correlations for industrial countries in the post-war period. The focus of the enquiry is on differences observed between EMS and non-EMS countries. It is seen that the EMS countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396141
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Fat Tails and their (Un)Happy Endings : Correlation Bias and its Implications for Systemic Risk and Prudential Regulation
International Monetary Fund - 2011
The correlation bias refers to the fact that claim subordination in the capital structure of the firm influences claim … holders’ preferred degree of asset correlation in portfolios held by the firm. Using the copula capital structure model, it is … shown that the correlation bias shifts shareholder preferences towards highly correlated assets, making financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401318
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Training as Part of Capacity Building : Report on IMF Training During 2007
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This Report provides statistical detail on IMF training for member country officials during calendar year 2007. Section I describes the distribution of training by provider, venue, and region. Section II presents information on the courses delivered through the INS program and the distribution...
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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times : A Practitioner's Guide
International Monetary Fund - 2005
methodology is applied to Polish micro data. The estimates confirm that wages are less elastic in a high … wages, and thus, on the labor market and the real economy, were limited until 1998, but have been quite significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400692
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A Cointegration Model for Search Equilibrium Wage Formation
International Monetary Fund - 2004
In flow models of the labor market, wages are determined by negotiations between workers and employers on the surplus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401436
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France: Selected Issues : Labor Market Developments and Wage Moderation in France in the 1990s
International Monetary Fund - 2001
The growth rate of real hourly wages in France has fallen below the trend growth rate of total factor productivity. The …. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407413
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Optimum currency areas : new analytical and policy developments
Bléjer, Mario I. (ed.) - International Monetary Fund - 1997
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Regulatory Capture in Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2006
Banks will want to influence the bank regulator to favor their interests, and they typically have the means to do so. It is shown that such ""regulatory capture"" in banking does not imply ineffectual regulation; a ""captured"" regulator may impose very tight, costly prudential requirements to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400538
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Following Germany'S Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policyon the Economy
International Monetary Fund - 2005
Forward-looking behavior on the part of the monetary authority leads least squares estimates to understate the true growth consequences of monetary policy interventions. We present instrumental variables estimates of the impact of interest rates on real output growth for several European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400699
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Inflation Targeting and Output Growth : Empirical Evidence for the European Union
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper evaluates the performance of two alternative policy rules, a forward-looking rule and a spontaneous adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union data. The simulations suggest that forward-looking rules...
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