Author: Syed, Murtaza H. / Tokuoka, Kiichi / Kang, Kenneth Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of studies analyzes developments in nonprice external competitiveness of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. While France, Italy, and Portugal have experienced substantial expo...
Author: Al-Hassan, Abdullah Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The global financial crisis has magnified the role of Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS) in the Fund's activities. This paper surveys the various steps and initiatives through which the Fund has incr...
Author: Holden, Patrick Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Continuing globalization has meant the increased development and importance of regional and international trade organizations and trade agreements. This Dictionary provides a background to the histori...
Author: Hardy, Daniel C. L. Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A decade-long diversification of official reserves into riskier investments came to an abrupt end at the beginning of the global financial crisis, when many central bank reserve managers started to wi...
Author: Arvai, Zsofia / Heenan, Geoffrey Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The June 2008 issue tackles the crisis in financial markets in industrial countries from a number of angles. Articles look at the origins of the crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United St...
Author: Samake, Issouf Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper discusses the potential macroeconomic implications for Hong Kong SAR of accommodative monetary policy in the United States. It shows, through model simulations, that a resumption of the cre...
Author: Tokarick, Stephen Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this paper, we analyze the evolution of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking sectors in the six member countries including ownership, concentration, cross-border linkages, balance sheet expos...
Author: Alichi, Ali Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper focuses on assessments of real exchange rates using PPP data and examines their limitations when these are based exclusively on bivariate estimations. It begins by presenting an analytical ...
Author: Patra, Michael / Kapur, Muneesh Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The recent sharp increase in fiscal deficits and government debt in many countries raises questions regarding their impact on long-term sovereign bond yields. While economic theory suggests that this ...
Author: Stepanyan, Ara / Mkrtchyan, Ashot Anatolii / Dabla-Norris, Era Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The recent development literature stresses that countries that receive large revenues from natural resource endowments typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates govern...
Author: Rochon, Celine / Verdier, Genevieve / Lipschitz, Leslie Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about policy options for emerging market countries (by Marcos Chamon, Chris Crowe, and Jun Il Kim); research summaries on “Does Trade and Financia...
Author: Saito, Mika / Kim, Daehaeng Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Emerging European countries have made large strides in developing their local capital markets since the early-1990s. However, the rate of development has been widely disparate across countries and mar...
Author: Julian, di Giovanni, / Gardner, E. H. Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of the United States, the euro area, and Japan in the emergence and evolution of toda...
Author: Jeanne, Olivier / Ostry, Jonathan David / Zettelmeyer, Jeromin Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper proposes an integrated crisis management and resolution framework for the EU's single banking market. It comprises a European Resolution Authority (ERA), armed with the mandate and the tool...
Author: Rahman, Jesmin Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The literature on leverage until now shows how an increase in volatility reduces leverage. However, in order to explain pro-cyclical leverage it assumes that bad news increases volatility. This paper ...
Author: Kumar, Anjali Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "There has been a growing awareness worldwide that financial exclusion reduces the potential welfare of individuals and the productivity of enterprises in an economy. This study focuses on the deliver...
Author: Chang, Yongsung / Kim, Sun-Bin / Lee, Jaewoo Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully exp...
Author: Lama, Ruy Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 2007 subprime crisis in the U.S. triggered a succession of financial crises around the globe, reigniting interest in the contagion phenomenon. Not all crises, however, are contagious. This paper m...
Author: Freedman, Charles / Johnson, Marianne / Ivan, Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The boundary between the public and private sectors can be defined on the basis of ownership of institutional units. Nonmarket government-owned entities and corporations that are owned or controlled b...
Author: Feenstra, Robert C. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Advanced International Trade is the first major graduate textbook in international trade in a generation. Trade is a cornerstone concept in economics, taught in all departments both in the United Stat...
Author: Pavesic-Skerlep, Mia / Tandberg, E. Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The paper investigates the determinants and the macroeconomic role of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa, assembling the most comprehensive dataset available so far on remittances in the region and inc...
Author: Mshomba, Richard E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mshomba provides a systematic study of Africa as it relates to the World Trade Organization. He examines the WTO's enforcement mechanism; the WTO's broadened mandate, illustrated by the Agreement on T...
Author: Mahajan, Vijay Publisher: Wharton School Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. “Unilever has invested in Africa for over a century an...
Author: Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Editi...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: South Asia is home to approximately 1.3 billion people, of whom 70 percent live in rural areas. Therefore, agriculture plays a crucial role in the region's economy, accounting for close to 28 percent ...
Author: N/A Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002-07. Using two main empirical approaches, Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Fronti...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A critical issue in dealing with climate change is deciding who has a right to emit carbon dioxide. Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme provides the first in-depth description and anal...
Author: Cavanagh, John Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The culmination of a five-year project by the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), this book presents an inspiring plan for moving toward more sustainable, humanistic models of economic prosper...
Author: N/A Publisher: Frontline Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides information for American Businesses Abroad. In particular, it provides tips and advice on how American businesses abroad can protect their assets and personnel. Areas covered incl...
Author: Saxon, Mike Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Did you know? Americans have bought $185 billion worth of Chinese goods China's economy is growing at an astounding rate of 9 percent a year The trade gap between the U.S. and China has been growing b...
Author: Makar, Eugene M Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Did you know that . . .U.S. money pours into India at a rate of over $25 million every day? India's economic growth has averaged 8.6 percent a year since 2004? At this rate, India will become the fift...
Author: Tuller, Lawrence Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Did you know . . . In 2006, U.S. exporters shipped four and a half times as much product to Latin America as to China. Latin America has more than 500 million consumers ready to buy U.S. manufactured ...
Author: Tuller, Lawrence Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Did you know this?In 2006, U.S. exporters shipped four and a half times as much product to Latin America as to China.Latin America has more than 500 million consumers ready to buy U.S. manufactured go...
Author: Vitek, Francis Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This paper develops a small open economy dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with macrofinancial linkages. The model includes a financial accelerator--entrepreneurs are assumed to partially f...
Author: Walton, Peter Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "A comprehensive and invaluable guide to IFRS which users will find indispensable in correctly applying the complex and onerous requirements of IFRS and IAS."Steve Collings FMAAT FCCA, Leavitt Walmsle...
Author: Walton, Peter Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "A comprehensive and invaluable guide to IFRS which users will find indispensable in correctly applying the complex and onerous requirements of IFRS and IAS."Steve Collings FMAAT FCCA, Leavitt Walmsle...
Author: Reinert, Kenneth A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is designed for a one-semester or two-semester course in international economics, primarily targeting non-economics majors and programs in business, international relations, public policy an...
Author: Kalff, Donald Publisher: Kogan Page Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text examines the structural weaknesses inherent in the US business model and uses these observations as a platform for developing a new paradigm based on current European practice which is seen ...
!["Lost Decade" in Translation:What Japan's Crisis could Portend about Recovery from the Great Recession](covers/small/464673.jpg ""Lost Decade" in Translation:What Japan's Crisis could Portend about Recovery from the Great Recession")
