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This paper constructs a general equilibrium model with monopolistically competitive firms and endogenous markups where government spending consists of both consumption and investment goods. It is shown that when markups are countercyclical, increases in the share of investment goods in aggregate...
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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The paper seeks to identify common characteristics among a variety of macroeconomic and financial variables for a large sample of currency crises in industrial countries and emerging market economies. It covers crises which culminated in large currency depreciation as well as those in which...
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explaining China''s and India''s growth. Specific financial sector policies are shown to map well the size and changes in the … investment wedge. In the case of China, nonperforming loans, borrowing constraints, and uncertainty over changes in government … rebalancing growth in China and sustaining high investment rate in India, further financial sector reforms could turn out to be …
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view is that despite China''s remarkably high growth, the share of consumption in total expenditure has been low and …
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China''s sectoral trade composition, product quality mix, and import content of processing exports have all changed … very wide. All this suggests greater caution in using historical data to simulate the response of the China''s economy to … external shocks and exchange rate changes. Analyses based on models whose estimated coefficients largely reflect the China of …
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China''s rapid overall growth since 1978 masks significant differences in relative economic performance across its …
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This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China''s consumption has been low … and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts … China is to rebalance growth towards relying more on consumption and less on exports and investment, banking sector reforms …
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This paper studies the relationship between economic growth and financial development in China during the post-1978 … find that while a positive correlation between growth and financial intermediation exists in China, the association is more … apparent than real. The nonstate sector, which contributed most to China''s remarkable growth during this period, did not use …
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