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Asia’s Stock Markets: Are There Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons?
Lipinsky, Fabian; Ong, Li Lian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of size and cross-border investment activity, the region’s markets are reputed to be more “idiosyncratic†and less reliant on economic and corporate fundamentals...
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Financial Integration in Asia; Recent Developments and Next Steps
Teo, Leslie; Cowen, David; Shah, Hemant; Salgado, Ranil; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
-Level Conference on Asian Integration cohosted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the IMF on May 25, 2006. The first documents … recent trends in the intraregional flow of goods and capital and explores linkages between real and financial integration …-of financial integration in Asia. The third considers the implications of economic integration for the choice of the exchange rate …
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The Impacton India of Trade Liberalization in the Textiles and Clothing Sector
Jain-Chandra, Sonali; Prasad, A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
We analyze the impact of the elimination of textile and clothing (T&C) quotas in 2005 on India. Our simulations suggest that while Indian exports of T&C will continue to expand in the presence of the safeguards on China, they will be affected adversely once these safeguards are lifted. We argue...
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Institutional Quality and International Trade
Levchenko, Andrei A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
The quality of institutions-meaning the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and the like-has received a great deal of attention in recent years. The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, it studies the consequences of trade when institutional...
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Customs Administration Reform and Modernization in anglophone Africa; Early 1990's to Mid-2010
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Anglophone African countries have been implementing reform and modernization initiatives in their Customs administrations. This paper outlines the progression of key reform and modernization initiatives in these countries since the early 1990s, and assesses the gap between these reforms and...
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Investment-Led Growth in China; Global Spillovers
Ahuja, Ashvin; Nabar, Malhar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are increasingly exposed to its investment-led growth and face growing risks from a...
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Trade Linkages, Balance Sheets, and Spillovers; The Germany-Central European Supply Chain
Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
integration which has lead to the development of a dynamic supply chain within Europe—the Germany-Central European Supply Chain … relatively small. This is explained by the supply chain nature of trade integration: final demand in Germany is not necessarily …
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The Comovement in Commodity Prices; Sources and Implications
Alquist, Ron; Coibion, Olivier - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
We present a simple macroeconomic model with a continuum of primary commodities used in the production of the final good, such that the real prices of commodities have a factor structure. One factor captures the combined contribution of all aggregate shocks which have no direct effects on...
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Accelerating And Sustaining Growth; Economic and Political Lessons
Virmani, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
The paper reviews and draws lessons from the experience of fast growing economies including a sub-set of these termed High Growth Economies (HGEs) with a decadal rate of over 7 per cent. It then reviews the history of the Indian growth acceleration following the reforms of the 1990s and its...
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Export Performance in Europe; What Do We Know from Supply Links?
Rahman, Jesmin; Zhao, Tianli - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
One of the most important recent developments in international trade is the increasing interconnectedness of export production through a vertical trading chain network that streches across many countries, with each country specializing in particular stages of a good’s production. Using...
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