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Mexico: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; and Press Release
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that after a sharp slowdown in 2013, growth in Mexico is projected to recover to 2.4 percent this year. The strong recovery in the United States in the second quarter of 2014 has triggered a rebound in Mexico’s manufacturing production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244756
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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Selected Issues paper for the Republic of Korea focuses on the role of monetary policy in the current context of slowing growth and rising inflation pressures. Korea has not remained immune to the global slowdown, and with the cycle turning downward, the trade-off between inflation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245257
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Rethinking Macro Policy II; Getting Granular
Blanchard, Olivier J.; Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni; Mauro, Paolo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This note explores how the economic thinking about macroeconomic management has evolved since the crisis began. It discusses developments in monetary policy, including unconventional measures; the challenges associated with increased public debt; and the policy potential, risks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245877
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Credible Commitment to Optimal Escape from a Liquidity Trap; The Role of the Balance Sheet of an Independent Central Bank
Jeanne, Olivier; Svensson, Lars E. O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
its currency and an exchange rate peg. This way, the central bank can implement the optimal escape from a liquidity trap … to escape from a liquidity trap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826442
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The Gambia; Demand for Broad Money and Implications for Monetary Policy Conduct
Sriram, Subramanian S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper evaluates the demand for broad money (M2) in The Gambia for January 1988-June 2007. There appears to be a long-run relationship for demand for real M2, but the relationship is not stable. Exogenous output shocks, financial innovation, changes in income velocity, and inadequate data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528631
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Frontiers of Monetary Policymaking: Adding the Exchange Rate as a Tool to Combat Deflationary Risks in the Czech Republic
Alichi, Ali; Benes, Jaromir; Felman, Joshua; Feng, Irene; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
The paper first describes how the Czech National Bank (CNB) moved gradually from a fixed exchange rate regime to the frontiers of Inflation-Forecast Targeting. It then focuses on the CNB’s recent experience in adding the exchange rate as a complementary monetary policy tool to stimulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242190
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Sweden; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This Selected Issues paper discusses capital and liquidity regulations in Sweden. It recaps the recent debates on … capital and liquidity buffers, and discusses a way to consider appropriate levels of capital and liquidity buffers in the case … of Sweden. The paper estimates the government’s contingent liabilities from banks by different capital and liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244133
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The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent
Ball, Laurence M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Many central banks target an inflation rate near two percent. This essay argues that policymakers would do better to target four percent inflation. A four percent target would ease the constraints on monetary policy arising from the zero bound on interest rates, with the result that economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790372
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Output Gap Uncertainty and Real-Time Monetary Policy
Grigoli, Francesco; Herman, Alexander; Swiston, Andrew; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
Output gap estimates are subject to a wide range of uncertainty owing to data revisions and the difficulty in distinguishing between cycle and trend in real time. This is important given the central role in monetary policy of assessments of economic activity relative to capacity. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163120
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Introducing a Semi-Structural Macroeconomic Model for Rwanda
Charry, Luisa; Gupta, Pranav; Thakoor, Vimal - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
We develop a simple semistructural model for the Rwandan economy to better understand the monetary policy transmission mechanism. A key feature of the model is the introduction of a modified uncovered interest parity condition to capture key structural features of Rwanda’s economy and...
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