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Disentangling India’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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Economic Diversification in the GCC: Past, Present, and Future
Callen, Tim; Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad; Hegazy, Amgad; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
economic diversification would reduce their exposure to volatility and uncertainty in the global oil market, help create jobs … limited. This paper argues that increased diversification will require realigning incentives for firms and workers in the … economies—fixing these incentives is the “missing link†in the GCC countries’ diversification strategies. At present …
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Financial Crises in DSGE Models: A Prototype Model
Benes, Jaromir; Kumhof, Michael; Laxton, Douglas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper presents the theoretical structure of MAPMOD, a new IMF model designed to study vulnerabilities associated with excessive credit expansions, and to support macroprudential policy analysis. In MAPMOD, bank loans create purchasing power that facilitates adjustments in the real economy....
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Financial Crises in DSGE Models: Selected Applications of MAPMOD
Benes, Jaromir; Kumhof, Michael; Laxton, Douglas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper, together with a technical companion paper, presents MAPMOD, a new IMF model designed to study vulnerabilities associated with excessive credit expansions, and to support macroprudential policy analysis. In MAPMOD, bank loans create purchasing power that facilitates adjustments in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790408
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Liquidity Trap and Excessive Leverage
Korinek, Anton; Simsek, Alp - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
We investigate the role of macroprudential policies in mitigating liquidity traps driven by deleveraging, using a simple Keynesian model. When constrained agents engage in deleveraging, the interest rate needs to fall to induce unconstrained agents to pick up the decline in aggregate demand....
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Reforming Tax Expenditures in Italy: What, Why, and How?
Tyson, Justin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
efficiency, equity, and administrative and compliance costs. This paper analyzes tax expenditures in Italy, considering the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123882
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Fiscal Decentralization and the Efficiency of Public Service Delivery
Sow, Moussé; Razafimahefa, Ivohasina Fizara - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …
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A Banking Union for the Euro Area
Goyal, Rishi; Brooks, Petya Koeva; Pradhan, Mahmood; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The SDN elaborates the case for, and the design of, a banking union for the euro area. It discusses the benefits and costs of a banking union, presents a steady state view of the banking union, elaborates difficult transition issues, and briefly discusses broader EU issues. As such, it assesses...
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India; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
Despite the external origin of the financial crisis, the potential impact on India’s corporate sector could be large, as India has become increasingly integrated with the global economy in the past decade. The Selected Issues paper discusses India’s economic development and...
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Germany; Technical Note on Crisis Management Arrangements
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper discusses Germany’s challenges and measures to strengthen crisis management arrangements. Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) and the Bundesbank have closely coordinated with the interagency risk committee on banking matters, which also encompasses BaFin...
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