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Deconstructing the International Business Cycle : Why Does a U.S. Sneeze Give the Rest of the World a Cold?
International Monetary Fund - 2010
The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the largest global slowdown since the 1930s. We estimate spillover effects across major advanced country regions in a structural VAR (SVAR) using pre-crisis data. Our new method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402644
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Exchange Arrangements and Foreign Exchange Markets : Developments and Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2003
This paper reviews developments and issues in the exchange arrangements and currency convertibility of IMF members. Against the backdrop of continuing financial globalization and a series of emerging market crises since 1997, there have been important changes in the evolution of exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404579
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Exchange Rate Volatility and World Trade
International Monetary Fund - 1984
increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406218
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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2017
Capital flows can deliver substantial benefits for countries, but also have the potential to contribute to a buildup of systemic financial risk. Benefits, such as enhanced investment and consumption smoothing, tend to be greater for countries whose financial and institutional development enables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408642
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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies
International Monetary Fund - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408670
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund - 2012
This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well … of trade growth enhances real output per capita, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly … trade volatility offset the positive impact of commodity booms; and export diversification of primary commodity abundant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396933
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Why has Japan been hit so hard by the global recession?
Sommer, Martin - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914439
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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions
International Monetary Fund - 1999
rates in the industrial countries in the post-World War II period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400163
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Estimating Potential Output with a Multivariate Filter
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This paper develops a simple model for measuring potential output that uses data on inflation, unemployment, and capacity utilization. We apply the model to 10 countries, in addition to the United States and the euro area. While there is a substantial amount of uncertainty around our estimates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403161
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Indonesia : sustaining growth during global volatility
Rumbaugh, Thomas (contributor) - 2012
indicators, the contributors have delved into the ways that global volatility, especially since 2008, has affected Indones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012676905