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Mexico; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper is a wide-ranging survey of the conditions for, and obstacles to, the growth in Mexico. It frames the issue of Mexico’s growth record, and presents the paper’s prior assumptions and approach. It highlights the main observations and conclusions emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245707
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Competition and Firm Productivity; Evidence From Firm-Level Data
Schiffbauer, Marc; Ospina, Sandra - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations … competition and our measures of productivity. We also find that countries that implemented product-market reforms had a more … pronounced increase in competition, and correspondingly, in productivity: the contribution to productivity growth due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470387
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Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms The Case of Italy
Lusinyan, Lusine; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
to strengthen competition in the non-tradable sector and make the labor market more efficient and inclusive, supported by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142132
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Competition in the Financial Sector; Overview of Competition Policies
Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
As in other sectors, competition in finance matters for allocative, productive and dynamic efficiency. Theory suggests …, however, that unfettered competition is not first best given the special features of finance. I review these analytics and … describe how to assess the degree of competition in markets for financial services. Existing research shows that the degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826668
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Privatization and Public Enterprises
Hemming, Richard; Mansoor, Ali M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590918
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures: What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Abstract What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959476
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Is Policy Ownership An Operational Concept?
Boughton, James M.; Mourmouras, Alex - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
IMF lending is generally conditional on specified policies and outcomes. These conditions usually are negotiated compromises between policies initially favored by the Fund and by the country's authorities. In some cases the authorities might be satisfied enough with the outcome to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826172
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The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance; Grants vs. Loan Rollovers
Mayer, Wolfgang; Mourmouras, Alex - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Improving the effectiveness of financial assistance programs is a priority of international financial institutions (IFIs). This paper examines the effectiveness of alternative assistance instruments in a dynamic political economy framework. Economic policies of the receiving country are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769031
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Overcoming Barriers to Reform:on Incentive-Compatible International Assistance
Mayer, Wolfgang; Mourmouras, Alex - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
International financial assistance (loans and grants) can potentially raise recipients' welfare in two ways, by affecting a direct resource transfer and by facilitating efficiency-enhancing reforms. In practice, barriers to reform limit the potential of assistance to deliver these two dividends....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769075
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Modeling Politics with Economics tools; A Critical Survey of the Literature
Olters, Jan-Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
behaviour on the economy, it has not (yet) managed to fully develop a positively formulated "economic theory of politics" that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605269