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durables as capital) as inputs for internationally traded high-end services and monitors the impact of productivity shocks, and … that formalization of an economy and manufacturing’s productivity improvement have the largest impact on services’ growth … and informal sector’s capital formation. Similarly, redistribution of incomes from the formal to informal households or …
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This chapter explores the tools available to policy-makers in small developing countries, to ensure balance in the short run and growth in the long run. Our point of departure is the "Washington consensus", including policies for fiscal reform, exchange rate adjustment, trade liberalization,...
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This chapter draws inferences from the recent literature on open-economy macroeconomics about policies to achieve sustainable economic growth with stable external account balances and low inflation in small developing economies
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Available evidence supports the view that growth is faster in more open economies. In order to analyze the implications of openness and growth on determinacy and learnability of worldwide rational expectations equilibria we develop a two-country New Keynesian model with growth. We analyze these...
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Small very open economies are different from large economies, in that they face a foreign exchange constraint that cannot be alleviated by depreciation of the real exchange rate or other policy. This constraint affects monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policy; fiscal sustainability and debt...
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This study investigates the efficiency of large commercial banks in Asia and the Pacific region. In particular, the overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency has been estimated, the factors (including, the environmental factors) that influence efficiency of...
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This paper has investigated the effectiveness of a forecast-based monetary policy for macroeconomic stabilization in a developing country, namely Pakistan. Using a simple New-Keynesian model and a forecast-augmented structural VAR (identified via three different strategies), we have studied the...
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This paper examines the role of corruption in the design of monetary policies for developing countries in a framework of fiscal and monetary interaction and obtains several interesting results. First, pegged exchange rates, currency boards, or dollarization, while often prescribed as a solution...
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The Bank of Canada Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM) is used to examine the effect of various types of discretionary fiscal policies on different regions of the globe. The BoC-GEM is a microfounded dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium global model with six regions, multiple sectors, and...
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It is by now widely accepted that the structural characteristics of the countries to become the euro area did not adhere to the conditions of an optimum currency area (OCA) when the euro was introduced in 1999. However, the satisfaction of OCA criteria may not be required for a workable currency...
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