Volume/Issue: 2012/253
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Paul Cashin
,
Kamiar Mohaddes
,
Mehdi Raissi
, and
Maziar Raissi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
October
2012
ISBN: 9781475597158
We employ a set of sign restrictions on the generalized impulse responses of a Global VAR model, estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2-2011Q2, to discriminate between supply-driven and demand-dr...
Volume/Issue: 2005/209
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Nicoletta Batini
,
Alessandro Rebucci
, and
Papa N'Diaye
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2005
ISBN: 9781451862287
Japan is facing a sizable fiscal imbalance against a backdrop of weak trend growth and growing external imbalances in the world economy. This paper examines the possible impact of fiscal adjustment and productivity...
Volume/Issue: 2014/80
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Alberto Behar
, and
Jaime Espinosa-Bowen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
09
May
2014
ISBN: 9781484380796
This paper quantifies the effect of realized and potential global growth disappointments on export volumes from the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Estimates of export elasticities with r...
Volume/Issue: 2015/64
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Michal Andrle
,
Patrick Blagrave
,
Pedro Espaillat
,
Keiko Honjo
,
Benjamin Hunt
,
Mika Kortelainen
,
René Lalonde
,
Douglas Laxton
,
Eleonara Mavroeidi
,
Dirk Muir
,
Susanna Mursula
, and
Stephen Snudden
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
20
March
2015
ISBN: 9781475518665
The Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM) is a group of models developed by the Economic Modeling Division of the IMF for policy analysis. A typical module of FSGM is a multi-region, forward-looking semi-structur...
Volume/Issue: 2010/102
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Kulwant Rai
, and
Herman Kamil
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2010
ISBN: 9781455200610
The recent global financial turmoil raised questions about the stability of foreign banks' financing to emerging market countries. While foreign banks' lending growth to most emerging market regions contracted shar...
Volume/Issue: 2014/241
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jorge Canales Kriljenko
,
Mehdi Hosseinkouchack
, and
Alexis Meyer-Cirkel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
29
December
2014
ISBN: 9781498305051
Sub-Saharan African countries are exposed to spillovers from global financial variables, but the impact on economic activity is more significant in more financially developed economies. Generalized impulse response...
Volume/Issue: 2012/86
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
March
2012
ISBN: 9781475502497
This paper examines the implications of elevated global food prices for inflation in select Central Asian economies - Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that global fo...
Volume/Issue: 2012/255
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Paul Cashin
,
Kamiar Mohaddes
, and
Mehdi Raissi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
25
October
2012
ISBN: 9781475581645
This paper analyzes spillovers from macroeconomic shocks in systemic economies (China, the Euro Area, and the United States) to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as outward spillovers from a GD...
Volume/Issue: 2006/170
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Francis Warnock
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
July
2006
ISBN: 9781451864304
Partly reflecting structural advantages such a liquidity and strong investor protection, foreigners have built up extremely large positions in U.S. (as well as other dollar-denominated) financial assets. This paper...
Volume/Issue: 2011/212
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Trung Bui
, and
Tamim Bayoumi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463902308.001
ISBN: 9781463902308
The financial crisis, originated from the collapse of US housing markets in 2008, reverberates around the world. Its destructive force was felt nowhere more keenly than Western Europe. Indeed, it continues to mire...