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Safta; Living in a World of Regional Trade Agreements
Rodríguez-Delgado, Jose Daniel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
The paper evaluates the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) within the global structure of overlapping regional trade agreements (RTAs) using a modified gravity equation. First, it examines the effects of the Trade Liberalization Program which started in 2006. SAFTA would have a minor effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768976
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242349
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123882
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Germany; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper attempts to analyze the end-point problem and improve the quality of potential GDP estimates for Germany. It projects that Germany’s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825173
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Uganda; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
growth from total factor productivity has been minor, while the high population growth poses a significant challenge to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825438
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Real Exchange Rates and Fundamentals; A Cross-Country Perspective
Ricci, Luca Antonio; Lee, Jaewoo; Milesi-Ferretti, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper employs newly constructed measures for productivity differentials, external imbalances, and commodity terms …-based real exchange rate and commodity terms of trade. The estimated impact of productivity growth differentials between traded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825636
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Global Imbalances; The Role of Non-Tradabletotal Factor Productivity in Advanced Economies
Rebucci, Alessandro; Batini, Nicoletta; Cova, Pietro; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825739
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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