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The Impact of Public Capital, Human Capital, and Knowledgeon Aggregate Output

Joutz, Frederick L.; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of public capital on private sector output by testing and estimating an aggregate production function for the U.S. economy over the postwar period augmented to include the stock of public capital as an additional factor input. We use patent applications to...

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RandD, innovation, and Economic Growth; An Empirical Analysis

Ulku, Hulya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R … the period 1981–97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and non …

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Disentangling Indiaâ€™s Investment Slowdown

Anand, Rahul; Tulin, Volodymyr - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

This paper documents the recent slowdown in investment in India and explores its underlying causes. The sharp investment deceleration has sparked an intense debate about the role of interest rates, as well as business confidence and economic policy uncertainty. Our results suggest that while...

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Financial Crises and the Composition of Cross-Border Lending

Cerutti, Eugenio; Hale, Galina; Minoiu, Camelia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

We examine the composition and drivers of cross-border bank lending between 1995 and 2012, distinguishing between syndicated and non-syndicated loans. We show that on-balance sheet syndicated loan exposures account for almost one third of total cross-border loan exposures during this period....

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Official Financial Flows, Capital Mobility, and Global Imbalances

Bayoumi, Tamim; Gagnon, Joseph E.; Saborowski, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

We use a cross-country panel framework to analyze the effect of net official flows (chiefly foreign exchange intervention) on current accounts. We find that net official flows have a large but plausible effect on current account balances. The estimated effects are larger with instrumental...

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Kenya; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

Like most Sub-Saharan African countries, Kenyaâ€™s economic growth appears to have been primarily driven by factor accumulation. The Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for Kenya examines economic developments and policies. During the last two decades, Kenya has been plagued by...

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Israel; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes-Data Module, Response by the Authorities, Detailed Assessments Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codesâ€”Data Module provides an assessment of Israelâ€™s macroeconomic statistics against the Special Data Dissemination Standard complemented by an assessment of data quality based on the IMFâ€™s Data Quality Assessment Framework,...

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An Oil and Gas Model

Krichene, Noureddine - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper formulated a short-run model, with an explicit role for monetary policy, for analyzing world oil and gas markets. The model described carefully the parameters of these markets and their vulnerability to business cycles. Estimates showed that short-run demand for oil and gas was price-...

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Financial Development and Economic Growth; An Overview

Khan, Mohsin S.; Semlali, A. Senhadji - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

In recent years there has been substantial theoretical and empirical work on the role that financial markets play in fostering economic growth and development. This paper provides a selective review of the literature, as well as new empirical evidence on the relationship between financial...

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Herd Behavior in Financial Markets; An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals

Cipriani, Marco; Guarino, Antonio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

We study herd behavior in a laboratory financial market with financial market professionals. We compare two treatments, one in which the price adjusts to the order flow so that herding should never occur, and one in which event uncertainty makes herding possible. In the first treatment, subjects...

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