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Romania; Request for a Stand-By Arrangement
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This paper discusses Romania’s Request for a Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Romania has made significant progress in reducing macroeconomic imbalances and rebuilding fiscal and financial buffers. However, Romania remains vulnerable to external shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245005
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Fiscal Consolidation in the Euro Area; How Much Can Structural Reforms Ease the Pain?
Anderson, Derek; Hunt, Ben; Snudden, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The IMF’s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is used to examine the scope for structural reforms in the euro area to offset the negative impact of fiscal consolidation required to put public debt back on a sustainable path. The results suggest that structural reforms in core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242309
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Cross-Country Linkages in Europe; A Global VAR Analysis
Sun, Yan; Heinz, Frigyes F; Ho, Giang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper uses the Global VAR (GVAR) model proposed by Pesaran et al. (2004) to study cross-country linkages among euro area countries, other advanced European countries (including the Nordics, the UK, etc.), and the Central, Eastern and Southeastern European (CESEE) countries. An innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242313
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Deciding to Enter a Monetary Union; TheRole of Trade and Financial Linkages
Lama, Ruy; Rabanal, Pau - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper evaluates the role of trade and financial linkages in the decision to enter a monetary union. We estimate a two-country DSGE model for the U.K. economy and the euro area, and use the model to compute the welfare trade-offs from joining the euro. We evaluate two alternative scenarios....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242323
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Inflation and Output Comovement in the Euro Area; Love at Second Sight?
Andrle, Michal; Bruha, Jan; Solmaz, Serhat - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper discusses comovement between inflation and output in the euro area. The strength of the comovement may not be apparent at first sight, but is clear at business cycle frequencies. Our results suggest that at business cycle frequency, the output and core inflation comovement is high and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242325
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Monetary and Macroprudential Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area
Quint, Dominic; Rabanal, Pau - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
In this paper, we study the optimal mix of monetary and macroprudential policies in an estimated two-country model of the euro area. The model includes real, nominal and financial frictions, and hence both monetary and macroprudential policy can play a role. We find that the introduction of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790358
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Contingent Capital; Economic Rationale and Design Features
Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla; Zhou, Jian-Ping; Leslé, Vanessa Le; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
The causes of the global financial crisis were multi-faceted but revealed still unresolved weaknesses in national and international financial oversight and resolution frameworks. In particular, many governments in the crisis-hit countries had to provide unprecedented levels of support to contain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245888
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Monetary Policy in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Kazakhstan
Epstein, Natan P.; Portillo, Rafael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
inflation in the context of a managed exchange rate regime. Over the past two years, the central bank has taken steps to enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142107
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Das Public Kapital: How Much Would Higher German Public Investment Help Germany and the Euro Area?
Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account surplus, but would also raise output over the longer-run as well as generate beneficial regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123846
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The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies on Bank Soundness
Lambert, Frederic; Ueda, Kenichi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
policy surprises, we do not detect clear effects of monetary easing on bank stock valuation but find a deterioration of … medium-term bank credit risk in the United States, the euro area, and the United Kingdom. Second, in panel regressions using … U.S. banks’ balance sheet information, we show that bank profitability and risk taking are ambiguously affected, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142163