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	Fiscal and Monetary Nexus in Emerging Market Economies: How Does Debt Matter? This paper examines two main aspects of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy in emerging market economies. First, it explores the interest rate-inflation re... Tags: Emerging Market, Financial Services, IMF, Marketing, Marketing Research Company: International Monetary Fund Date: August 2006	International Monetary Fund
	The Level and Composition of Public Sector Debt in Emerging Market Crises The paper examines the evolution of public sector debt levels and structures in 12 emerging market countries around the time of financial crises. In particular, it focuse... Tags: Emerging Market, Financial Services, IMF, Marketing, Marketing Research Company: International Monetary Fund Date: August 2006	International Monetary Fund
	What Explains Private Saving in Mexico? This paper examines the factors influencing Mexico's private saving rate. Cross-country analysis finds that Mexico's private saving is somewhat higher than could be expla... Tags: Analysis, IMF, Mexico Company: International Monetary Fund Date: August 2006	International Monetary Fund
	The Role of Seasonality and Monetary Policy in Inflation Forecasting Adequate modeling of the seasonal structure of consumer prices is essential for inflation forecasting. This paper suggests a new econometric approach for jointly determin... Tags: Consumer Price, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, IMF, Inflation Company: International Monetary Fund Date: July 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter Output drops are usually associated with major disruption for the residents of affected countries, both directly and often through ensuing, prolonged growth slowdowns. Us... Tags: IMF, Shock Company: International Monetary Fund Date: July 2006	International Monetary Fund
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	How Do Central Banks Write on Financial Stability? To showcase their increasing focus on financial stability, many central banks and other institutions have started publishing regular reports on financial stability. The p... Tags: Bank, Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, Financial Stability Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	An Empirical Investigation of the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Inflation in Tanzania The paper examines the effect of exchange rate changes on consumer prices in Tanzania using structural Vector AutoRegression (VAR) models. Using a data set covering the p... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Exchange Rate, Finance, Fluctuation, Free Trade Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	The Maastricht Inflation Criterion: How Unpleasant Is Purgatory? The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "High-inflation" EU countries in line with "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of... Tags: Benefits, Criterion, Currency & Foreign Exchange, European Union, Finance Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Inflation Targeting in Dollarized Economies The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market economies although, as noted by many economists, the pre... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Emerging Market, Exchange Rate, Finance, Free Trade Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Inflation, Inequality, and Social Conflict This paper presents and then tests a political economy model to analyze the observed positive relationship between income inequality and inflation. The model's key featur... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Identification Strategy, Inequality, Inflation Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	U.S. Inflation Dynamics: What Drives Them Over Different Frequencies? This paper aims to improve the understanding of U.S. inflation dynamics by separating out structural from cyclical effects using frequency domain techniques. Most empiric... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, IMF, Inflation Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Getting Shut Out of the International Capital Markets: It Doesn't Take Much This paper presents a simple model showing how easily an emerging market borrower can be shut out of international capital markets. The shut out can occur without markets... Tags: Argentina, Capital Market, Emerging Market, Finance, Financial Services Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	IMF-Supported Programs and Crisis Prevention: An Analytical Framework This paper presents an analytical framework for considering the role of IMF-supported programs in preventing crises, particularly capital account crises. The model builds... Tags: Finance, Games, IMF, Investment, Personal Technology Company: International Monetary Fund Date: June 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Public Debt, Money Supply, and Inflation: A Cross-Country Study and Its Application to Jamaica This paper provides comprehensive empirical evidence that supports the predictions of Sargent and Wallace's (1981) "Unpleasant monetarist arithmetic" that an increase in ... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Debt, Developing Country, Finance, Free Trade Company: International Monetary Fund Date: May 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Setting the Operational Framework for Producing Inflation Forecasts How should a central bank organize itself to produce the best possible inflation forecast? This paper discusses elements for building a comprehensive platform for an infl... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Forecasting, Inflation Company: International Monetary Fund Date: May 2006	International Monetary Fund
	The Role of Interest Rates in Business Cycle Fluctuations in Emerging Market Countries: The Case of Thailand This paper employs the Global Economy Model (GEM) developed by the Research Department of the IMF. The authors extend GEM by incorporating balance sheet related credit ma... Tags: Balance Sheets, Interest Rate, IMF, Financial Statements, Financial Services Company: International Monetary Fund Date: May 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Core Inflation Measures and Statistical Issues in Choosing Among Them This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation, and the criteria for choosing among them. The approa... Tags: Business Operations, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, IMF, Inflation Company: International Monetary Fund Date: April 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: A New Data Set This paper presents a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980. The data set focuses on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction o... Tags: Debt, Emerging Market, Financial Services, IMF, Marketing Company: International Monetary Fund Date: April 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Capital Budgeting and Economic Development in the Third World: The Case of Nigeria In this paper author investigates capital budgeting techniques for Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs), using a sample of Swedish firms, in order to shed light on whether t... Tags: Budgeting, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Financial Services, Foreign Direct Investment Company: EUROPEAN JOURNALS Date: March 2006	EUROPEAN JOURNALS
	Export-Import Bank: Changes Would Improve the Reliability of Reporting on Small Business Financing The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) provides loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to support U.S. exports. Its level of support for small business has been a long-standing is... Tags: Ex-Im, General Accounting Office, Small Business Company: U.S. General Accounting Office Date: March 2006	U.S. General Accounting Office
	Primary Surplus Behavior and Risks to Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries: A "Fan-Chart" Approach This paper proposes a probabilistic approach to public Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) using "Fan charts." These depict the magnitude of risks - upside and downside - ... Tags: Emerging Market, Marketing Research, Marketing, IMF, Free Trade Company: International Monetary Fund Date: March 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Beyond the IMF Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb The purpose of this paper is to examine the governmental and market mechanisms that are being developed in the world financial community as ways to complement and substit... Tags: Finance, Financial, Financial Accounting, IMF Company: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four Date: March 2006	Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
	Does Inflation in China Affect the United States and Japan? With China's share in global trade increasing rapidly, some argued in 2002 - 03 that China was exporting deflation to other countries as it was dumping cheap goods in mat... Tags: China, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, Inflation Company: International Monetary Fund Date: February 2006	International Monetary Fund
	The Effects of Loss Aversion on Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence In this paper the implications of loss aversion for trade policy determination and show how it allows explaining a number of important and puzzling features of trade poli... Tags: Brandeis University, Loss Aversion, Management, Strategy, Theory Company: Brandeis University Date: January 2006	Brandeis University
	Suppressed Inflation and Money Demand in Zimbabwe The paper investigates the divergence between inflation and monetary expansion in Zimbabwe since late 2003. The substantial decline in velocity and increasing levels of r... Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance, IMF, Inflation, Zimbabwe Company: International Monetary Fund Date: January 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Vanishing Contagion? While a number of emerging market crises were characterized by widespread contagion during the 1990s, more recent crises (notably, in Argentina) have been mostly containe... Tags: Crisis, Financial Services, IMF, Marketing, Marketing Research Company: International Monetary Fund Date: January 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets This paper introduces fiscal policy in a model of sovereign risk spreads ("Spreads"). Using panel data from emerging market countries, it is found that reductions in publ... Tags: Emerging Market, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Marketing, IMF Company: International Monetary Fund Date: January 2006	International Monetary Fund
	Reforming External Tariffs in Central and Western African Countries This paper examines the reform of the external tariff initiated by the CEMAC and the WAEMU that is aimed at reinforcing their economic integration. Overall, there is broa... Tags: Finance, Free Trade, Tariff Company: International Monetary Fund Date: January 2006	International Monetary Fund
	NAFTA: The Politics in the United States Free trade agreements also helped to enhance the competitive position of many U. S. companies by making it easier to take advantage of scale economies and extend regional... Tags: Finance, Free Trade, Liberalization, NAFTA Company: University of Magdeburg Date: December 2005	University of Magdeburg
	Reluctant Regionalism: Japan and Asia While the incentives to support regional arrangements in East Asia are limited resistance to market opening remains strong in agriculture and basic materials. Japan there... Tags: Finance, Free Trade, Japan, Sales, Sales Force Management Company: University of Michigan Date: December 2005	University of Michigan
	Free Trade For Better Health Free trade is a powerful mechanism for improving human health, for two broad reasons. First and most important, freeing up trade between individuals and countries is a pr... Tags: Benefits, Vertical Industries, Software, Prosperity, Human Resources Company: International Policy Network Date: December 2005	International Policy Network
	South Africa's Changing Position in the International Economic Environment The ever increasing cross border flows of trade, investment and finance, as well as the rise of technology, have given rise to a global economy. There are numerous advant... Tags: Economy, Environment, Finance, Financial Accounting, Investment Company: University of Michigan Date: December 2005	University of Michigan
	Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely... Tags: Business Operations, Research & Development, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Outsourcing, Offshoring Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: December 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Towards a Global Civil Society There is a powerful impulse in the world today hastening the process of international economic integration. Economic integration means greater inter-dependency among coun... Tags: Finance, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Globalization, Integration, Investment Company: University of Michigan - Dearborn Date: November 2005	University of Michigan - Dearborn
	A Negotiating History of Customs Valuation in the GATT and WTO A specific tariff determines the tariff at the border by placing the amount in relation to the quantity of the good imported; perhaps the tariff might be a certain amount... Tags: Finance, Free Trade, GATT, Tariff, Valuation Company: World Trade Organization Date: November 2005	World Trade Organization
	What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations? The objective of this paper is to understand the trading strategy that would allow an investor to take advantage of "Excessive" stock price volatility and "Sentiment" flu... Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Fluctuation, IBM Corp., Investment Company: National Bureau of Economic Research Date: November 2005	National Bureau of Economic Research
	Telecommunications and the WTO: The Case of Mexico The U.S.-Mexico case (2002-04) was the first (and so far only) case of World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute resolution on telecommunications services and the first on s... Tags: Finance, Free Trade, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications Company: World Bank Group Date: October 2005	World Bank Group
	Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System How are to assess the fairness of the global trading system as embodied in the GATT/WTO? In this paper, one first discusses why fairness is a condition of the agreements ... Tags: Enterprise Software, Fairness, Finance, Financial Services, Government Company: University of Michigan Date: October 2005	University of Michigan
	Impact of U.S. Tariffs on Democratic Vote Share This paper provides evidence on an amended Mayer-Heckscher-Ohlin model with parties by studying the effects of U.S. tariffs on the Democratic vote share. The effects are ... Tags: Effect, Finance, Free Trade Company: University of Hong Kong Date: October 2005	University of Hong Kong
	The Social Impact of a WTO Agreement in Indonesia The objective of this study is to help identify ways in which the Doha Development Agenda might contribute to further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good te... Tags: Agreement, Finance, Free Trade, Indonesia, World Bank Group Company: World Bank Group Date: October 2005	World Bank Group

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