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Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1994
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1994
ISBN: 9781451944938
Keywords: balance of payments, current account, current account balance, repurchases, current account deficit
Main Developments in the World Economy The world economy showed a modest recovery in 1993, with total output increasing by 2.3 percent compared with a rise of 1.8 per...

The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact »
Source: The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact
Volume/Issue: 2009/280
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): R. Gelos , Robert Rennhack , James Walsh , and Pelin Berkmen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
ISBN: 9781451874259
Keywords: Global crisis, transmission of shocks, cross-country linkages, current account balance, exchange rate, exchange rates,
We provide one of the first attempts at explaining the differences in the crisis impact across developing countries and emerging markets. Using cross-country regressions to explain the factors driving growth foreca...

Global Financial Shocks and Foreign Asset Repatriation »
Source: Global Financial Shocks and Foreign Asset Repatriation : Do Local Investors Play a Stabilizing Role?
Volume/Issue: 2014/60
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Gustavo Adler , Marie-Louise Djigbenou , and Sebastian Sosa
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 April 2014
ISBN: 9781484353349
Keywords: gross capital flows, foreign assets, global financial shocks, capital inflows, net capital, net capital flows, capital outflows, General, Open Economy Macroeconomics,
We study the dynamic response of gross capital flows in emerging market economies to different global financial shocks, using a panel vector-autoregressive (PVAR) setting. Our focus lies primarily on the potentiall...

Global Financial Stability Report, April 2007 : Market Developments and Issues »
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 April 2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066373.082
ISBN: 9781589066373
Keywords: hedge funds, hedge, financial stability, bond, banking
Published twice yearly, the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) was created to provide a more frequent assessment of global financial markets by the IMF and to address emerging market financing in a global con...

Global Financial Stability Report, October 2007 : Financial Market Turbulence Causes, Consequences, and Policies »
Series: Global Financial Stability Report
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 October 2007
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066762.082
ISBN: 9781589066762
Keywords: capital inflows, hedge funds, hedge, risk management, financial stability
Published twice yearly, the Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) was created to provide a more frequent assessment of global financial markets by the IMF and to address emerging market financing in a global con...

Global Imbalances and External Adjustment after the Crisis »
Source: Global Imbalances and External Adjustment after the Crisis
Volume/Issue: 2014/151
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Philip Lane , and Gian Milesi-Ferretti
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 August 2014
ISBN: 9781498339216
Keywords: Global crisis, Current account adjustment, current account, current account balance, current account balances,
This paper has two objectives. First, it reviews the recent dynamics of global imbalances (both 'flow' and 'stock' imbalances), with a special focus on the shifting position of Latin America in the global distribut...

Global Liquidity, House Prices, and the Macroeconomy »
Source: Global Liquidity, House Prices, and the Macroeconomy : Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Economies
Volume/Issue: 2015/23
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi , Luis Felipe Cespedes , and Alessandro Rebucci
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 29 January 2015
ISBN: 9781484346037
Keywords: C32, E44, F44, economies, liquidity, advanced economies, exchange rate, Time-Series Models, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy, International Business Cycles
In this paper we first compare house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using a new quarterly house price data set covering the period 1990-2012. We find that house prices in emerging economies grow fa...

Global Liquidity through the Lens of Monetary Aggregates »
Source: Global Liquidity through the Lens of Monetary Aggregates
Volume/Issue: 2014/9
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Kyuil Chung , Jong-Eun Lee , Elena Loukoianova , Hail Park , and Hyun Shin
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 24 January 2014
ISBN: 9781475514551
Keywords: Corporate deposits, offshore bond issuance, capital inflow, capital flows, capital markets, debt securities, General, International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions,
This paper examines how the financial activities of non-financial corporates (NFCs) in international markets potentially affects domestic monetary aggregates and financial conditions. Monetary aggregates reflect, i...

Global Monetary Tightening »
Source: Global Monetary Tightening : Emerging Markets Debt Dynamics and Fiscal Crises
Volume/Issue: 2014/215
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Julio Escolano , Christina Kolerus , and Constant Lonkeng Ngouana
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 12 December 2014
ISBN: 9781475584691
Keywords: Debt dynamics, sovereign debt crisis, unconventional, debt, bond, interest, Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects), International Lending and Debt Problems
This paper finds that tightening global financial conditions can worsen emerging economies' public debt dynamics through an increasing interest rate-growth differential, particularly if coupled with high global ris...

Global Poverty Estimates »
Source: Global Poverty Estimates : A Sensitivity Analysis
Volume/Issue: 2011/234
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Camelia Minoiu , and Shatakshee Dhongde
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2011
ISBN: 9781463922009
Keywords: global poverty, household surveys, international poverty line, poverty line, surveys, statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We...