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Show Me the Money; Access to Finance for Small Borrowers in Canada
Klyuev, Vladimir - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper examines access to business finance by Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and to housing finance by Canadian households (particularly non-prime borrowers) against the background of a fairly concentrated and protected banking industry. It finds access broadly adequate...
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Finland: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Finland
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Finland’s strong economic record has stalled. The economy has been in recession for three of the last five years, and unemployment is now more than 8 percent, with more people without work for longer. The shortfall in growth, coming at a...
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Finland: Fiscal Transparency Evaluation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2015
This paper discusses key findings of fiscal transparency evaluation for Finland. It highlights that Finland meets most … for fiscal management in Finland is relatively low. Overall, the Finnish authorities produce an impressive amount of data … and information related to all three pillars of the Code. It is also highlighted that fiscal reporting in Finland is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245724
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Spillovers to and from the Nordic Economies: A Macroeconometric Model Based Analysis
Vitek, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks and policies among and across the Nordic economies and the rest of the world. This spillover analysis is based on a pair of estimated structural macroeconometric models of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. We find...
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Spillovers in the Nordic Countries
Mircheva, Borislava; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden form a tightly integrated region which has strong ties with the euro area as well … of integration among the four Nordic economies. These differences are driven by the fact that Denmark and Finland have no … independent monetary policy, and Denmark and Norway are net energy exporters while Finland and Sweden are energy importers. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242239
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Nordic Regional Report; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
and high household debt. The economic performance of the four continental Nordic economies (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and …
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Nordic Regional Report; 2013 Cluster Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper examines 2013 Cluster Consultation—a Nordic Regional IMF staff report. Denmark, Finland, Norway, and …
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Finland: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
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Uncertainty and the Employment Dynamics of Small and Large Businesses
Ghosal, Vivek; Ye, Yang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based on the survey of professional forecasters, and regressionbased forecasting models for GDP growth, inflation, S&P500 stock price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that...
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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP since 1970. The data show that the growth...
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