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Can Foreign Exchange Intervention Stem Exchange Rate Pressures from Global Capital Flow Shocks? »
Source: Can Foreign Exchange Intervention Stem Exchange Rate Pressures from Global Capital Flow Shocks?
Volume/Issue: 2015/159
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Olivier Blanchard , Gustavo Adler , and Irineu de Carvalho Filho
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 July 2015
ISBN: 9781513585840
Keywords: exchange rate, gross capital flows, exchange, market, General,
Many emerging market economies have relied on foreign exchange intervention (FXI) in response to gross capital inflows. In this paper, we study whether FXI has been an effective tool to dampen the effects of these...

Chapter 15. Kosovo: Watching the Global Crisis from the Sidelines »
Source: How Emerging Europe Came Through the 2008/09 Crisis : An Account by the Staff of the IMF's European Department
Series: Books
Author(s): Bas Bakker , and Christoph Klingen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 31 August 2012
ISBN: 9781616353810
Keywords: capital inflows, public finances, fiscal policy, public debt, capital adequacy
Kosovo’s financial and economic integration with the global economy is limited. Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, the emphasis has been on rebuilding the coun...

2. Developments in the Global Economy and Financial Markets »
Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2010 : Supporting a Balanced Global Recovery
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 October 2010
ISBN: 9781616350154
Keywords: financing, finance, debt, credit, bank
The past year has been a roller coaster for the global economy. 4 The severe financial crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Br...

2. Developments in the Global Economy and Financial Markets »
Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2014 : From stabilization to sustainable growth
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Secretary's Department
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 October 2014
ISBN: 9781498315357
Keywords: Annual reports, Administrative and Capital budgets, Bilateral surveillance, External training programs, Executive Board, Financial sector surveillance, IMF, IMF Finance, IMF Lending, Fund budget
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3. Emerging Europe and the Global Crisis: Lessons from the Boom and Bust »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, October 2010, Europe, Building Confidence
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 October 2010
ISBN: 9781589069510
Keywords: capital inflows, exchange rate, fiscal consolidation, fiscal policy, capital flows
Two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, emerging Europe 22 has begun its recovery from its deepest post-transition recession. While the recovery remain...

2. Emerging Europe: Toward Self-Sustained Growth »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, October 2010, Europe, Building Confidence
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 October 2010
ISBN: 9781589069510
Keywords: capital inflows, exchange rate, fiscal consolidation, fiscal policy, capital flows
Emerging Europe (EE) 7 is recovering from its deepest recession in the post-transition period. GDP in the region is likely to grow by 3.9 percent in 2010 and 3....

Fund activity: de Larosière outlines Fund role in present global economy; A Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C.; budgeting seminar; Fund transactions »
Source: Finance & Development, September 1980
Volume/Issue: 17/3
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 September 1980
ISBN: 9781616353421
Keywords: bank, finance, credit, loans, education systems
This paper highlights that despite severe limitations of resources, developing countries have made substantial progress during the past three decades in sending more children to school and in generally improving th...

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 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 Spillovers into Domestic Bond Markets in Emerging Market Economies* »
Source: Global Spillovers into Domestic Bond Markets in Emerging Market Economies
Volume/Issue: 2013/264
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Laura Jaramillo , and Anke Weber
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 December 2013
ISBN: 9781484328446
Keywords: Emerging Market Economies, Fiscal Deficit, Global Spillovers, bond, bond yields, domestic bond, sovereign bond, Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy,
While fiscal conditions remain healthier than in advanced economies, emerging economies continue to be exposed to negative spillovers if global conditions were to become less favorable. This paper finds that domest...