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Asia Rising; A Sectoral Perspective
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper undertakes a cross-country analysis of productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. It … finds that Asia's remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, and rapid productivity … encouraged resource shifts from low- to high-productivity sectors. Looking ahead, sustaining rapid growth requires meeting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826110
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United Kingdom; 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This staff report on United Kingdom’s (UK) 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights economic policies and development. The UK economy grew by about ¼ percent in 2012. Net trade reduced growth by 0.6 percentage points of GDP, the biggest drag since 2005, and well above staff projections....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243880
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Shock from Graying; Is the Demographic Shift Weakening Monetary Policy Effectiveness
Imam, Patrick A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Abstract Empirical evidence is mounting that, in advanced economies, changes in monetary policy have a more benign impact on the economy—given better anchored inflation expectations and inflation being less responsive to variation in unemployment—compared to the past. We examine another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242214
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Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times; Bank-Level Evidence
Poirson, Hélène; Schmittmann, Jochen M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks’ stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242342
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Global Bonding; Do U.S. Bond and Equity Spillovers Dominate Global Financial Markets?
Bayoumi, Tamim; Bui, Trung - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper uses a novel variant of identification through hetroscedacity to estimate spillovers across U.S., Euro area, Japanese, and UK government bond and equity markets in a vector autoregression. The results suggest that U.S. financial shocks reverberate around the world much more strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242378
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The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks on the UK Economy
Denis, Stephanie; Kannan, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper quantifies the economic impact of uncertainty shocks in the UK using data that span the recent Great Recession. We find that uncertainty shocks have a significant impact on economic activity in the UK, depressing industrial production and GDP. The peak impact is felt fairly quickly at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790244
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Aggregate Stability and Balanced-Budget Rules
Ghilardi, Matteo; Rossi, Raffaele - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
It has been shown that under perfect competition and a Cobb-Douglas production function, a basic real business cycle model may exhibit indeterminacy and sunspot fluctuations when income tax rates are determined by a balanced-budget rule. This paper introduces in an otherwise standard real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790380
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The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies on Bank Soundness
Lambert, Frederic; Ueda, Kenichi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Unconventional monetary policy is often assumed to benefit banks. However, we find little supporting evidence. Rather, we find some evidence for heightened medium-term risks. First, in an event study using a novel instrument for monetary policy surprises, we do not detect clear effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142163
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Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries
Matovu, John; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
This paper addresses the potential effects on human capital accumulation and economic growth of the alternative compositions of public expenditures in the context of a computable dynamic general equilibrium model of overlapping generations and heterogeneous agents in which altruistic parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825657
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The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending
Kuijs, Louis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
The paper investigates empirically the impact of ethnic heterogeneity on the amount of public spending on health and education and the quality, or “technical efficiency” of spending. While it finds partial evidence for the claim that more heterogeneous societies spend less on public goods,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825706