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External Evaluation of IMF Economic Research Activities

International Monetary Fund - 2000

This report, commissioned by the Executive Board, was prepared by a committee of academic economists. The report assesses the appropriateness of current research activities, the quality and added value of the IMF's economic research and its utility in the IMF among its member countries and...

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IMF Research Bulletin, December 2014

International Monetary Fund - 2014

The December 2015 IMF Research Bulletin features a sampling of key research from the IMF. The Research Summaries in this issue look at 'The Impact of Deflation and Lowflation on Fiscal Aggregates (Nicolas End, Sampawende J.-A. Tapsoba, Gilbert Terrier, and Renaud Duplay); and 'Oil Exporters at...

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IMF Research Bulletin, March 2014

International Monetary Fund - 2014

The Research Summaries in the March 2014 Research Bulletin focus on efficiency of health expenditure (Francesco Grigoli and Javier Kapsoli) and employment growth in European Union countries (Bas B. Bakker and Li Zeng). The Q&A article looks at “Seven Questions on Financial...

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Options for Low Income Countries' Effective and Efficient Use of Tax Incentives for Investment : Tools for the Assessment of Tax Incentives

International Monetary Fund - 2015

This background paper describes five different tools that can be used for the assessment of tax incentives by … framework for assessment. Evaluations of the various costs and benefits of tax incentives are vital for informed decision making … light on the implications of tax parameters - including targeted tax incentives - on investment returns and help understand …

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Externalities. Incentives, and Economic Reforms

International Monetary Fund - 1990

The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple … effective institutions exist for overcoming coordination failure. External financing may weaken incentives for adjustment over … that strengthen incentives to provide effort. Uncertainty regarding future taxes reduces present effort and the …

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Debt Relief and Adjustment Incentives : A Theoretical Exploration

International Monetary Fund - 1988

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the argument that debt relief would increase the incentive of a debtor country to make an adjustment effort (to invest) and that for this reason creditors may benefit by granting relief. It is shown that there are actually opposing incentive effects of...

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Export Pricing Behavior of Manufactuting : U.S.-Japan Comparison

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Using domestic and export price data and a framework of markup over cost, pricing behavior of U.S. and Japanese manufacturers is compared. Major export industries in Japan have higher productivity growth and lower pass-through coefficients than American exporters, who tend to price to domestic...

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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...

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Impact of EMU on selected non-European Union countries

Feldman, Robert A. (contributor); … - International Monetary Fund - 1998

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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

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