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The Declining Importance of Tradable Goods Manufacturing in Australia and New Zealand; How Much Can Growth Theory Explain?
Hunt, Ben - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248284
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Qatar: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244097
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Italy; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Based on the economic literature, various policy measures and institutions in the product and labor markets that increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between Vertical Fiscal Imbalances (VFIs) and fiscal performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244125
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Does Inflation Slow Long-Run Growth in India?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142122
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Guatemala; Selected Issues and Analytical Notes
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper estimates both Guatemala’s potential output and output gap using a wide range of econometric techniques. The analysis suggests that Guatemala’s potential output growth is about 3.5 percent for the whole sample period and that the output gap is almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243930
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Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges
Cubeddu, Luis M.; Culiuc, Alexander; Fayad, Ghada; Gao, Yuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878427
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Structural Reforms in the Euro Area; Economic Impact and Role of Synchronization Across Markets and Countries
Everaert, Luc; Schule, Werner - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Using the IMF's Global Economic Model, calibrated to the European Union, the effects of reform in product and labor markets are quantified for both a large and a small euro area economy. When markups in these markets are reduced, there are sizable long-term gains in output and employment. Most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264078
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South Africa; The Cyclical Behavior of the Markups and its Implications for Monetary Policy
Klein, Nir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The study looks at the cyclical behavior of the markups and assesses its impact on inflation dynamics. The analysis … countercyclical manner, with a short-term positive impact on inflation. This implies that the countercyclical pattern of the markups … is one factor among others that contribute to the relatively weak output gap-inflation co-movement. In the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293762
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New Shocks, Exchange Rates and Equityprices
Cova, Pietro; Rebucci, Alessandro; Matsumoto, Akito; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
productivity and monetary policy. We identify a condition under which these asset prices become more volatile without affecting the … to productivity shocks. The model we set up does well at matching second moments of exchange rate and equity returns for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825757
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What Explains India's Real Appreciation?
Kohli, Renu; Mohapatra, Sudip - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
growth suggests Balassa-Samuelson factors at play. However, after 1990, the tradable-nontradable labor productivity gap, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826517