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Measuring and managing exchange rate risk exposure is important for reducing a firm''s vulnerabilities from major exchange rate movements, which could adversely affect profit margins and the value of assets. This paper reviews the traditional types of exchange rate risk faced by firms, namely...
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Lucas (2004) asserts that ""Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution. The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current production...
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This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation …, and the criteria for choosing among them. The approaches to measurement considered include exclusion-based methods …
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measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real …
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During the first half of 2008, Sri Lanka witnessed significantly higher inflation than most other emerging Asian countries. Inflation has since declined amid declining world commodity prices and tight monetary policy. Given the sensitivity to global commodity prices, a core inflation measure...
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This paper makes a new attack on the old problem of measuring horizontal inequity in the income tax. Local measures of inequality of posttax income among pretax equals are proposed, which reflect alternative value judgments about the nature and magnitude of an inequity. These measures are...
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in statistical estimates of international capital flows and monetary aggregates. We examine a variety of measurement …
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measurement of reinvested earnings and illustrative examples as to recording, from the Fund’s Balance of Payments Compilation …
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Growing international integration in trade and finance can challenge the measurement of external accounts. This paper … account balances. The framework allows to derive a precise definition of measurement distortions and an empirical strategy for … discuss how merchanting and profit-shifting activities could lead to measurement distortions. We suggest areas for future …
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