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Export Versus FDI in Services
International Monetary Fund - 2010
In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case 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 cost. Japanese firms seem to price discriminate between domestic, and export …
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New Rates From New Weights
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper describes the result and the methodology of updating nominal and real effective exchange rate weights on the basis of trade data over 1999-2001. The underlying framework is an updated version of the IMF''s current effective exchange rate calculation, which uses weights largely based...
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Review of the IMF's Trade Restrictiveness Index
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper examines the construction of the index and its use over the past seven years, identifies its limitations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410091
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Global Liquidity : Credit and Funding Indicators
International Monetary Fund - 2013
This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented
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Commodity Prices As a Leading Indicator of Inflation
International Monetary Fund - 1988
significantly improves the fit of regressions of a multi-country consumer price index. However, there does not appear to be a …
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Trade Interconnectedness : The World with Global Value Chains
International Monetary Fund - 2013
The aim of this paper is to address the implications of Global Value Chains (GVCs) for the Fund's surveillance work. The paper first draws on the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to document the dynamics of trade linkages between countries and regions through GVCs and its impact on the real...
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Russian Federation
Odling-Smee, John C. (contributor);  … - International Monetary Fund - 1992
Am 3. Januar 1992 stellte der Präsident der russischen Föderation den offiziellen Antrag auf Aufnahme in den IMF und die Weltbankgruppe. Bereits seit November 1991 besuchten IMF-Experten Moskau, um mit den russischen Behörden die Wirtschaftspolitik zu besprechen, eine fundierte...
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Financial Sector Assessment : Russian Federation
World Bank - 2016
A joint IMF-World Bank mission visited the Russian Federation from March 15 to 31, 2016, to conduct an assessment under the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). The mission assessed financial sector risks and vulnerabilities, assessed the quality of financial sector supervision, and...
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Russian Federation Financial Sector Assessment Program : Insurance Core Principles Assessment
World Bank - 2016
. In the case of Russia, the main objective of insurance supervision is to ensure that insurers fully comply with core …
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