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Republic of Slovenia: Staff Report for the 2013 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that after a brief stabilization in 2010, the recession in the Slovenia … resumed in 2011 and the economy now has contracted for eight consecutive quarters. Although a sharp contraction in investment …

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Republic of Slovenia; 2012 Article IV Consultationâ€”Staff Report; Informational Annex; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

Slovenia, among other euro area countries, experienced the largest economic contraction since 2008. The performance of …

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Republic of Slovenia; Financial System Stability Assessment

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The Slovenian financial system has been hard hit by the crisis. Banks remained highly vulnerable to continued credit deterioration and refinancing risks. Strengthening of financial condition of banks should be the short-term priority. The financial restructuring should be followed by...

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Republic of Slovenia: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Slovenia

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015

This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Slovenia is recovering from a deep crisis. Growth is estimated to … have reached about 2.6 percent in 2014, supported by strong exports and EU-funded public investment. The financial sector …

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Republic of Slovenia; Detailed Assessment of Observance of Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

The Slovenian banking system has been transformed by Sloveniaâ€™s accession to the European Union. Banking sector regulation and supervision is generally in line with international standards. The global crisis affected Sloveniaâ€™s economy significantly, and most banks in the system...

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Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015

This Selected Issues paper examines social spending reform and fiscal savings in Slovenia. Rising expenditure has been … and provides a framework to assess their efficiency relative to other countries. …

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Liquidity Trap and Excessive Leverage

Korinek, Anton; Simsek, Alp - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

We investigate the role of macroprudential policies in mitigating liquidity traps driven by deleveraging, using a simple Keynesian model. When constrained agents engage in deleveraging, the interest rate needs to fall to induce unconstrained agents to pick up the decline in aggregate demand....

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Reforming Tax Expenditures in Italy: What, Why, and How?

Tyson, Justin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

efficiency, equity, and administrative and compliance costs. This paper analyzes tax expenditures in Italy, considering the …

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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery

Sow, Moussé; Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …

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Iceland: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015

This Selected Issues paper examines implications of capital account liberalization in Iceland. Capital controls were critical in 2008 to avoid a more severe collapse of the Icelandic economy. Six years later, capital inflows have been liberalized, but most outflows remain restricted. Iceland has...

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