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Adopting the Euro in Central Europe; Challenges of the Next Step in European Integration

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

Upon entry into the European Union, countries become members of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), with a derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national currency with the euro, but can choose when to request...

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Northern Star; Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity

Klyuev, Vladimir; Mühleisen, Martin; Bayoumi, Tamim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account …

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Macroeconomic Implications of Financial Dollarization; The Case of Uruguay

Gelos, Gaston; Mejía, Alejandro López; Piñón-Farah, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

direct bearing on the ongoing efforts to move toward a fully fledged inflation-targeting regime and develop interest rates as …

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The Role of the Exchange Rate in Inflation-Targeting Emerging Economies; Targeting Emerging Economies

Nordstrom, Anna; Roger, Scott; Stone, Mark R.; Shimizu, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

This paper explores the role of exchange rates in emerging economies with inflation-targeting regimes, an issue that … has become especially germane during the current episode of financial turmoil and volatile capital flows. Under inflation … targeting, the interest rate is the main monetary policy tool for influencing activity and inflation, and there is little …

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Managing Financial Crises; Recent Experience and Lessons for Latin America

Kincaid, G. Russell; Collyns, Charles - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMFâ€™s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...

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Exchange Rate Policy in Developing Countries; Some Analytical Issues

Montiel, Peter; Aghevli, Bijan B.; Khan, Mohsin S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1991

This paper addresses analytical aspects of exchange rate policy and emphasizes the relationship among exchange rate flexibility, financial discipline, and international competitiveness.

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Chile; Institutions and Policies Underpinning Stability and Growth

Kalter, Eliot; Phillips, Steven; Singh, Manmohan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper presents the primary institutions and economic policies that have led to Chileâ€™s remarkable record of stability and growth over the past twenty years. The core of this policy stance is the combination of fiscal discipline and an open trade policy regime, together with carefully...

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Adopting Inflation Targeting; Practical Issues for Emerging Market Countries

Zelmer, Marc; Schaechter, Andrea - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy of Transition Economies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Launch of EMU

Masson, Paul R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1999

fixed exchange rate regimes, while trend real appreciation makes the combination of low inflation and exchange rate … alternative monetary framework, inflation targeting. …

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Exchange Rate Assessment; Extension of the Macroeconomic Balance Approach

Isard, Peter; Faruqee, Hamid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998

The IMF's internal analysis of exchange rate issues has been guided by, and limited by, the conceptual and empirical frameworks that have emerged from the collective research of the economics profession. The research has provided several general approaches that are useful for assessing whether...

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