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How to Fight Deflation in a Liquidity Trap; Committing to Being Irresponsible
Eggertsson, Gauti B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
can be analyzed as a credibility problem if the government has only one policy instrument, money supply carried out by … solve the credibility problem. They involve printing money or nominal debt and either (1) cutting taxes, (2) buying real … these policy instruments. It commits to higher money supply in the future so that the private sector expects inflation …
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A Monetary Policy Model without Money for India
Kapur, Muneesh; Patra, Michael Debabrata - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
A New Keynesian model estimated for India yields valuable insights. Aggregate demand reacts to interest rate changes with a lag of at least three quarters, with inflation taking seven quarters to respond. Inflation is inertial and persistent when it sets in, irrespective of the source. Exchange...
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Sweden; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Technical Note on Stress Testing of the Banking Sector
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
Although Sweden has recovered from the financial crisis, authorities have already initiated exit measures from crisis response policies. The Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) Update undertook a financial stability analysis of the banking sector, including a comprehensive stress-testing...
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Republic of Korea; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The recent global financial crisis has exposed the limitations of a conventional inflation targeting framework in insulating an economy from all shocks, and demonstrated that its rigid application may aggravate the effect of shocks on output and inflation. Possible refinements to the inflation...
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Niger; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This Selected Issues Paper and Statistical Appendix for Niger are discussed. The Nigerien economic outlook has been improving since 1999. After a long period of decline in per capita income, growth accelerated through 2007, attaining an annual average of 4 percent, or about 1 percent in per...
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Financial Integration, Growth, and Volatility
Epaulard, Anne; Pommeret, Aude - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the welfare gains from financial integration for developing and emerging market economies. To do so, we build a stochastic endogenous growth model for a small open economy that can (i) borrow from the rest of the world, (ii) invest in foreign assets, and...
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A Simple Model of An International Lender of Last Resort
Huang, Haizhou; Goodhart, C. A. E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper develops a simple model of an international lender of last resort (ILOLR). The world economy consists of many open economies, each with a banking system and a central bank operating under a pegged exchange rate regime. The fragility of the banking system and the limited ability of a...
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Monetary Policy in an Equilibrium Portfolio Balance Model
Kumhof, Michael; Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Standard theory shows that sterilized foreign exchange interventions do not affect equilibrium prices and quantities, and that domestic and foreign currency denominated bonds are perfect substitutes. This paper shows that when fiscal policy is not sufficiently flexible in response to spending...
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Perspectiveson High Real Interest Rates in Turkey
Kannan, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
The Turkish economy is typically characterized as having particularly high real interest rates. Fundamental considerations, such as high growth rates or high returns to capital, do not provide a satisfactory resolution of this puzzle. Instead, we find that two other factors- doubts about the...
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External Shocks and Inflation in Developing Countries Under a Real Exchange Rate Rule
Ostry, Jonathan David; Montiel, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
This paper shows that the response of inflation to external shocks is very different when the authorities target the real exchange rate than when they follow a fixed exchange rate or a preannounced crawling peg. Specifically, shocks that would have no effect on the steady-state inflation rate...
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