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Debt-Equity Composition of International Investment

International Monetary Fund - 1988

Capital flows to the nonindustrial countries share three striking characteristics. First, the bulk, of these flows was in the form of debt, not equity; second, the loans were mostly to, or guaranteed by, debtor governments; and third, these debts were largely bank loans, not bonds. This paper...

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Risk Instability and the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East and North Africa Region

International Monetary Fund - 2004

This paper demonstrates that instability associated with investment risk is critical in explaining the level of foreign direct investment for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, which generally have higher investment risk than developed countries. The empirical results support...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401431

Foreign Direct Investment

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This paper summarizes the theory and empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign direct investment. These determinants include expected relative rates of return, risk diversification, market size, technological advantage, market failure, oligopolistic rivalry, liquidity, currency strength,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396385

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 …

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Revenue Administration : Taxpayer Audit--Use of Indirect Methods

International Monetary Fund - 2010

This technical note examines the use of indirect methods in a taxpayer audit. Indirect methods involve the determination of tax liabilities through an analysis of a taxpayer’s financial affairs utilizing information from a range of sources beyond the taxpayer’s declaration and formal books...

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Approaches to exchange rate policy : choices for developing and transition economies ; papers presented at the seminar on Exchange Rate Policies in Developing and Transition Econom...

Barth, Richard C. (contributor); … - International Monetary Fund - 1994

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Western Europe in transition : the impact of the opening up of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; [main paper ; panel discussion]

DeFontenay, Patrick; Gomel, Giorgio; Hochreiter, Eduard; … - 1995

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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times : A Practitioner's Guide

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This paper reviews several methods to measure wage flexibility, and their suitability for evaluating the extent of such flexibility during times of structural change, when wage distributions and wage curves can be particularly volatile. The paper uses nonparametric estimation to capture possible...

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Growth Experience in Transition Countries, 1990-1998

International Monetary Fund - 2000

This study, another in the series focusing on special issues in transition, reviews the experience of output decline and recovery in the 25 countries of eastern and central Europe and the Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Although these countries began the process...

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Western Europe in Transition : Impact of Opening Up Eastern Europe

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper examines the impact of the opening up of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union on Western Europe. The analysis suggests that given reasonable (yet necessarily imprecise) assumptions on the likely developments in the previously centrally planned economies (PCPEs) over the next ten...

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