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This paper presents an overview of the different methodologies that can be used to measure the amount of available slack in an economy. A comparison of these alternatives reveals that the evolution of the Nairu is crucial for understanding recent cyclical developments in the French economy. A...
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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) employs a very well developed risk-focused regulatory and supervisory regime, consisting of … Principles (BCPs) in Malaysia has been undertaken as part of a joint International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Report on the … structure and development of the Malaysia financial sector; and (iv) meetings with individual banks, the banking association and …
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The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), as the supervisor of the capital markets, has developed a robust supervisory … Malaysia (FIMM) should be implemented in full by carrying out on-site inspections as presently planned. At this stage in the …
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This Review of Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision in Labuan, Malaysia, highlights the supervisory and … antimoney laundering frameworks. Labuan, an offshore financial center located in Malaysia, has all the essential elements for a …
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This 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that Malaysia has been hit hard by the global downturn. The economy is set …
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This study shows that the aggregate demand for M1 in the group of countries participating in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System can be expressed as a stable function of ERM-wide income, inflation, interest rates, and the exchange rate of the European Currency Unit...
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Error correction models of the demand for a range of monetary aggregates in China are estimated with quarterly data for the period 1983–88. The estimated models fit the data reasonably well and appear to be relatively stable. Money demand is found to be sensitive to changes in expected...
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The paper evaluates whether a monetary aggregate can serve as a useful predictor of inflation, using recent developments in the principle of cointegrated variables. M2 but not M1 is cointegrated with relevant price, transactions, and rate of return variables. However, deviations of M2 from its...
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The pace of financial market innovation in Canada quickened in the past decade or so with implications for the empirical relationships between the various monetary aggregates and other economic variables. Against this background, this paper, using an error correction formulation, presents new...
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This paper presents estimates of a demand function for broad money in Japan. The function explains both secular trends in broad money during the 1970s and 1980s and the sharp decline in the income velocity of broad money during 1986-88. The inclusion of wealth and a measure of the return on...
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