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Did Export Diversification Soften the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis?
Romeu, Rafael; Neto, Nelson Camanho da Costa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
to many or few trading partners. Second, industry/sectoral concentration is considered; that is, whether a countryâ … on a dataset containing over 500 thousand observations for Latin America. Industry and product concentration are found to …
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Are Middle Eastern Current Account Imbalances Excessive?
Cashin, Paul; Beidas-Strom, Samya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Employing a dynamic panel regression, this study estimates the medium-term current account position for three subgroups of emerging market and developing countries with shared economic characteristics. The fundamental determinants of the macroeconomic balance approach to current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293773
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Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?
Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the … extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a country's export sector and finds that for many developing countries …, developing countries could increase their export earnings by reducing their own import tariffs, but countries must be careful …
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Forecasting U.S. Investment
Rabanal, Pau; Lee, Jaewoo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The driving force of U.S. economic growth is expected to rotate from the fiscal stimulus and inventory rebuilding in 2009 to private demand in 2010, with consumption and particularly investment expected to be important contributors to growth. The strength of U.S. investment will hence be a...
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Banks and Labor As Stakeholders; Impacton Economic Performance
Ueda, Kenichi; Claessens, Stijn - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and state-industry level data, we investigate how output growth is … positively impact overall state growth but greater workers' rights affects it ambiguously. At the industry level, however …
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The Impact of Research and Development Tax Incentiveson Colombia's Manufacturing Sector; What Difference Do they Make?
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
&D investment in manufacturing is quite high in Colombia compared to other countries, particularly for smaller firms, but that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768986
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Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, RandD, Trade, and Labor Markets; Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector
Khan, Tehmina S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during …
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Technology and Finance
Ilyina, Anna; Samaniego, Roberto M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
The benefits from financial development are known to vary across industries. However, no systematic effort has been made to determine the technological characteristics that are shared by industries that tend to grow relatively faster in more financially developed countries. This paper explores a...
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Japan’s Quest for Growth; Exploring the Role of Capital and innovation
Syed, Murtaza H.; Lee, Jinsook - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
As labor input in Japan shrinks with population aging, capital accumulation and productivity gains will drive growth over the medium-term. At the same time, a changing global landscape calls for a shift in export-oriented investment toward new markets and a new generation of products, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777031
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Creditless Recoveries
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Recoveries that occur in the absence of credit growth are often dubbed miracles and named after mythical creatures. Yet these are not rare animals, and are not always miracles. About one out of five recoveries is "creditless", and average growth during these episodes is about a third lower than...
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