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Contrary to the traditional assumption of interest rates on government debt exceeding economic growth, negative interest-growth differentials have become prevalent since the global financial crisis. As these differentials are a key determinant of public debt dynamics, can we sleep more soundly,...
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This paper examines the impact of international trade on industrialization in developing agricultural economies. The findings show that developing agricultural economies that increased their openness during 1970-95 experienced an increase in their share of industrial production at the expense of...
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instruments of financial repression may be used for exchange rate management. The model is compared to the experience of India, a …
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has moved away from a broad money target toward a “multiple indicators” approach to the …
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India has a long history of running fiscal deficits. Two broad considerations motivate a government to run a deficit … 1951-52 to 1996-97. The empirical results indicate that the central government of India has tax-smoothed, while the … regional governments of India have not. The paper also finds evidence of tax tilting, reflected in financial repression, which …
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reform on fiscal and external performance. The model is applied to India to illustrate the types of simulations that may be …
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The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. This paper creates a special version of GPM that includes the four largest Euro Area (EA) countries. The EA countries are more vulnerable to domestic and external demand shocks because...
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This paper explores the nexus between the financial cycle and business cycle in Brazil. Cycles are estimated using a variety of commonly-used statistical methods and with a small, semistructural model of the Brazilian economy. An advantage of using the model-based approach is that financial and...
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This paper summarizes a suite of early warning models to assess the probabilities of growth, fiscal, and financial crises in advanced economies and emerging markets. We estimate separate signal-extraction models for each type of crisis and sample of countries, and we use our results to generate...
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We identify episodes of sudden stops in emerging economies and estimate the probability to observe them. Sudden stops are more likely when global growth falters, risk aversion in financial markets rises, and vulnerabilities in the external and financial sectors increase. However, the...
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