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Modeling Appropriate Fiscal Targets and Optimal Consolidation Paths for Resource-Rich Countries: The Case of Suriname

Kanda, Daniel; Mansilla, Mario - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

This paper first attempts to quantify the natural resource wealth of Suriname from the perspective of its impact on the …

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Suriname; Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The economy continues to recover at a steady pace, buoyed by strong activity in the oil and gold sectors, as well as public investment. In the wake of the January 2011 devaluation and concurrent increase in taxes, the fiscal balance shifted from a deficit of 3 percent of GDP in 2010 to a surplus...

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Suriname: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

activity in Suriname. The estimates are broadly consistent with prior empirical findings. The results reveal a strong …

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Suriname: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

This Selected Issues paper focuses on constructing a high-frequency economic growth indicator for Suriname. Most … economic data for Suriname are available only with a substantial time lag and on a low-frequency basis, impeding such analyses … to construct a monthly indicator of economic activity for Suriname. The indicator provides information about the pace of …

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Suriname: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Authorities for Suriname

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Surinameâ€™s macroeconomic conditions weakened in 2013 as gold and oil prices declined. With those prices falling below recent peaks, the large fiscal and external sector exposures to the mineral sector continued their deterioration in 2013,...

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Suriname: 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

improve macroeconomic performance, enabling Suriname to enjoy several recent upgrades from major ratings agencies. With gold …

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Inflation Targeting and Country Risk; An Empirical Investigation

Fouejieu, Armand; Roger, Scott - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has highlighted the role of country risk premia as a link between countriesâ€™ fiscal and external balances, financial conditions and monetary policy. The purpose of this paper is to estimate how adoption of inflation targeting (IT) affects spreads. It is...

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Non-Performing Loans in CESEE; Determinants and Impact on Macroeconomic Performance

Klein, Nir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

The paper investigates the non-performing loans (NPLs) in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESEE) in the period of 1998–2011. The paper finds that the level of NPLs can be attributed to both macroeconomic conditions and banks’ specific factors, though the latter set of factors was...

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Alternative Monetary Policy Rules for India

Kapur, Muneesh; Patra, Michael Debabrata - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper empirically evaluates the operational performance of the McCallum rule, the Taylor rule and hybrid rules in India over the period 1996-2011 using quarterly data, with a view to analytically informing the conduct of monetary policy. The results show that forward-looking formulations of...

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Interest Rate Rules, Endogenous Cycles, and Chaotic Dynamics in Open Economies

Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Airaudo, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

We present an extensive analysis of the consequences for global equilibrium determinacy in flexible-price open economies of implementing active interest rate rules, i.e., monetary rules where the nominal interest rate responds more than proportionally to inflation. We show that conditions under...

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