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Taxing Financial Transactions; Issues and Evidence

Matheson, Thornton - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

In reaction to the recent financial crisis, increased attention has recently been given to financial transaction taxes (FTTs) as a means of (1) raising revenue for a variety of possible purposes and/or (2) helping to curb financial market excesses. This paper reviews existing theory and evidence...

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India's Financial Globalisation

Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

India embarked on reintegration with the world economy in the early 1990s. At first, a certain limited opening took place emphasising equity flows by certain kinds of foreign investors. This opening has had myriad interesting implications in terms of both microeconomics and macroeconomics. A...

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Government Bonds and their Investors; What Are the Facts and Do they Matter?

Andritzky, Jochen R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

advanced economies and the euro area. During the last decades, investors from abroad have increased their presence in …

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Israel; Staff Report for the 2009 Article IV Consultation

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

This staff report discusses Israelâ€™s 2009 Article IV Consultation on economic developments and policies. The economy has been shielded from the global downturn by the absence of prior housing or bank credit booms, high household savings rates, and the fact that investment goods and...

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Quality of Financial Policies and Financial System Stress

Das, Udaibir S.; Yossifov, Plamen; Podpiera, Richard; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

In this paper, we develop multi-country indices of financial system stress and quality of financial policies and use them in regression analysis of the determinants of financial stress. We find that countries with higher quality of financial policies are better able to contain the effects of...

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A New Database of Financial Reforms

Detragiache, Enrica; Abiad, Abdul; Tressel, Thierry - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of...

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The euro on the global stage

Regling, Klaus Peter - In: Oxford review of economic policy 39 (2023) 2, pp. 219-230

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Output smoothing in EMU and OECD : can we forego government contribution? : a risk sharing approach

Marinheiro, Carlos Fonseca - 2003

whether the private capital markets will be able to replace the government in providing output smoothing in the euro-area, in … countries, the EU-15 or euro-area countries, for the period 1970-1999. However, there were shown to be considerable differences … between the euro-area and the successful monetary union of the USA: the euro-area showed a much lower insurance of asymmetric …

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Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2008

economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …

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Chinese Renminbi Arrival in the "Tripolar" Global Monetary Regime

Ryan, John - In: China & world economy 23 (2015) 6, pp. 44-55

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