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Growth in Switzerland; Can Better Performance Be Sustained?

Gagales, Anastassios - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Swiss growth performance in the past quarter century has been mediocre. The paper finds that conditional income convergence contributes significantly to slow growth and the poor performance of the domestically oriented sectors has been a drag on growth. However, slow growth is not inescapable....

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Caribbean Bananas; The Macroeconomic Impact of Trade Preference Erosion

Cashin, Paul; Mlachila, Montfort; Haines, Cleary - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of the erosion of trade preferences, with a focus on the export of Caribbean bananas to Europe. Estimates are made of the magnitude of implicit assistance provided over a period of three decades to eastern Caribbean countries through banana trade...

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Hungary; An Economic Survey

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1982

This paper presents an overview of the economy of Hungary. The paper highlights that during the Fifth Five-Year Plan (1976â€“80), actual growth rates for almost all major plan aggregates remained below the targets. The lower targets set for the increase in both consumption and investment in...

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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...

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Jamaica; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Selected Issues paper analyzes Jamaicaâ€™s experience of low growth despite consistently high investment rates. It suggests that the link between public debt and productivity is part of the answer to the puzzle. The paper considers Jamaicaâ€™s debt management strategy and its...

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Ireland; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007

This Selected Issues paper discusses Irelandâ€™s trade and financial linkages with key partner countries. The paper uses a vector autoregression to examine the impact of shocks to partner country GDP and shocks to Irish competitiveness on Irish GDP. Two main findings are that shocks to U.S....

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Dynamic Depositor Discipline in U.S. Banks

McDill, Kathleen; Maechler, Andrea M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper investigates the presence of depositor discipline in the U.S. banking sector. We test whether depositors penalize (discipline) banks for poor performance by withdrawing their uninsured deposits. While focusing on the movements in uninsured deposits, we also account for the possibility...

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Asset Market Participation, Monetary Policy Rules, and the Great Inflation

Bilbiie, Florin; Straub, Roland - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper argues that limited asset market participation is crucial in explaining U.S. macroeconomic performance and monetary policy before the 1980s, and their changes thereafter. We develop an otherwise standard sticky-price dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, which implies that at...

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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

markets are quantified for both a large and a small euro area economy. When markups in these markets are reduced, there are … transitional costs as they induce a temporary decline in consumption, but raising competition in goods markets can mitigate some of … these costs. Thus, coordinating the timing of reforms across markets is beneficial, and the more so the more open the …

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First; A Market-Based Approach to Evaluate Financial System Risk and Stability

Avesani, Renzo G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

, complex financial institutions (LCFIs) operating in the most advanced financial markets, MRI and CRI have also been applied to …

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