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Financial Globalization : The Impact on Trade, Policy, Labor, and Capital Flows
International Monetary Fund - 2007
Assiduously tracking the trends and consequences of globalization, the IMF's quarterly magazine Finance & Development … focuses on financial globalization, including the policy implications of the huge growth in cross-border capital flows …. Articles also look at the expansion of world trade, explore the impact of globalization on jobs, taxation, and the poor, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404799
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Opening and liberalization of markets in Africa - a response to globalization? : A policy dialogue ; Berlin, 1 - 3 December, 1998 ; summary report
Harris, Elliott (contributor) - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001351565
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Trade Reform Under Partial Currency Convertibility : Some Suggestive Results
International Monetary Fund - 1988
This paper discusses the macroeconomic implications of trade reform in the presence of capital account restrictions. The latter is modelled by recognizing prior constraints on free currency convertibility that are imposed via the use of a multiple exchange rate system. The results of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396238
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Investment, Openness and Country Risk
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/10014395944
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Oil Shocks and External Balances
International Monetary Fund - 2007
of oil shocks on the merchandise trade balance and the current account, which depending on the source of the shock can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401265
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The Effects of Currency Substitutionon the Response of the Current Account to Supply Shocks
International Monetary Fund - 1988
introduced into the analysis, the same shock could cause a current account deficit. Furthermore, the higher the dependence of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396256
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Current Account Dynamics : The Role of Real Shocks
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper demonstrates how a full-blown optimizing model of the dynamics of the current account can be reduced to a small-scale collection of reduced-form relations capable of implementing a rich set of macro-economic simulations. Emphasizing the role of shocks to productivity, labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395801
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Commodity Markets and the International Transmission of Fiscal Shocks
International Monetary Fund - 1988
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/10014395951
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A Noteon Terms of Trade Shocks and the Wage Gap
International Monetary Fund - 2010
Using Chilean data, we document that for resource-rich small open economies the effects of terms of trade shocks on the wage gap (between skilled and unskilled workers) depend on factor intensities in the non-tradable sector, following the model in Galiani, Heymann, and Magud (2010). For a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403224
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Guidance Note on the Exogenous Shocks Facility
International Monetary Fund - 2006
The ESF, established within the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Exogenous Shocks Facility (PRGF-ESF) Trust, complements existing Fund instruments for providing timely support, including financing at more appropriate terms, to low-income members that are facing sudden and exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410054