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Next-Generation, Low-Latency Front-Office Computing for Capital Markets
Capital markets have complex, data-intensive front-office environments that change in milliseconds. To survive and differentiate themselves, companies need predictable, high-performance technical solutions. They also must...
Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: August 2008 |
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Trade Credit and the Effect of Macro-Financial Shocks: Evidence From U.S. Panel Data
Many firms examined why their suppliers finance firms, but few empirical studies look at the macroeconomic implications of such financial arrangements. Using disaggregated panel data,...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: June 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Case For Open Global Capital Markets
Recent financial problems in emerging economies have led to calls for a new international financial architecture. Proposals include restricting short-term capital flows and extending the...
Company: Cato Institute
Date: March 2001 |
Cato Institute |
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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States
This paper estimates international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Evolution and Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes
Using recent advances in the classification of exchange rate regimes, this paper finds no support for the popular bipolar view that countries will tend over...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Volatility and Comovement in a Globalized World Economy: An Empirical Exploration
The paper analyzes the evolution of volatility and cross-country co-movement in output, consumption, and investment fluctuations using two distinct datasets. The results suggest there have...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Do IMF-Supported Programs Boost Private Capital Inflows? The Role of Program Size and Policy Adjustment
The paper analyzes empirically whether program size (the size of financial assistance) and policy adjustment matter for the success of IMF-supported programs. It defines a...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: November 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Free Trade Areas and Rules of Origin: Economics and Politics
Incorporating intermediate inputs into a small-union general-equilibrium model, this paper first develops the welfare economics of preferential trading under the rules of origin (ROO) and...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: November 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Dynamic Depositor Discipline in U.S. Banks
This paper investigates the presence of depositor discipline in the U.S. banking sector. It tests whether depositors penalize (discipline) banks for poor performance by withdrawing...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: November 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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What Sustains Fiscal Consolidations In Emerging Market Countries?
This paper examines the factors affecting the persistence of fiscal consolidation in 25 emerging market countries during 1980–2001. It proposes a new approach for defining...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: November 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Modeling Inflation in Georgia
The paper explains the behavior of inflation in Georgia in the post-stabilization period. A long-run equation linking prices to money and the exchange rate, as...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: November 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The United States and the New Regionalism/ Bilateralism
Current U.S. trade policy stresses establishing free trade areas (FTAs) with partners spanning the globe. Motivations include enhancing goods and services trade; stimulating investment flows;...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: October 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Promoting Fiscal Transparency: The Complementary Roles of the IMF, Financial Markets and Civil Society
This paper explores initiatives to date by the IMF, financial markets, and civil society organizations to assess and utilize information on fiscal transparency. The results...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: October 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The U.S. Dollar And The Trade Deficit: What Accounts For The Late 1990s?
Based on a version of the IMF’s new Global Economic Model (GEM), calibrated to analyze macroeconomic interdependence between the United States and the rest of...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: October 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Cost Channel of Monetary Policy: Further Evidence for the United States and the Euro Area
This paper estimates the importance of the cost channel of monetary policy in a New Keynesian model of the business cycle. A model with normal...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: July 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Dollarization of the Banking System: Good or Bad?
This paper assesses the benefits and risks associated with dollarization of the banking system. It provides novel empirical evidence on the determinants of dollarization, its...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: July 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Why Is There So Much Disagreement About the IMF and Reform of the International Financial Architecture?
The debate over reform of the international financial architecture was stimulated largely by the rash of currency and financial crisis in emerging markets that began...
Company: Claremont McKenna College
Date: August 2002 |
Claremont McKenna College |
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Understanding The IMF Debate
The International Monetary Fund (along with the World Bank) was established during the international negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, toward the end of World...
Company: Claremont McKenna College
Date: November 2000 |
Claremont McKenna College |
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A Soft-Core Public Choice Analysis Of The International Monetary Fund
The operations of the Bretton Woods Twins – the International Monetary Fund and World Bank – have come under increasing public scrutiny in recent years....
Company: Claremont McKenna College
Date: October 2000 |
Claremont McKenna College |
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Do IMF-Supported Programs Help Make Fiscal Adjustment More Durable?
This paper investigates fiscal developments in 112 countries during 1990s. It finds that, while the overall fiscal balance improved in most of them, the compositor...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: February 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Anticipating Arrears To The IMF: Early Warning Systems
This paper attempts to predict the incidence of arrears to the IMF by modifying and applying two of the major early warning systems for currency...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: January 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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WTO Financial Services Commitments: Determinants And Impact On Financial Stability
The paper investigates the factors that have influenced WTO members to take on their chosen level of liberalization commitments in the framework of liberalization of...
Company: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Date: December 2002 |
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
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Dollarization, Monetary Policy, And The Pass-Through
This paper explores how real dollarization (dollar indexing of wages), financial dollarization (dollar denomination of financial contracts), and monetary policy interact in a general equilibrium,...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: November 2002 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Liability Dollarization And The Bank Balance Sheet Channel
Banks in developing economies often face a mismatch in the currency denomination of their liabilities (foreign currency denominated debt) and assets (domestic currency loans to...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: August 2002 |
International Monetary Fund |
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External Debt And Growth
This paper assesses the non-linear impact of external debt on growth using a large panel data set of 93 developing countries over 1969-98. Results are...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: April 2002 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Impact Of Cyclical Factors On The U.S. Balance Of Payments
Real GDP growth and real effective exchange rate (REER) appreciation appear co-integrated with the current and financial accounts of the U.S. balance of payments. On...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: March 2002 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Financial Development And Economic Growth - An Overview
In recent years, there has been substantial theoretical and empirical work on the role that financial markets play in forecasting economic growth and development. This...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2000 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Determinants Of Dollarization - The Banking Side
Dollarization in financial intermediation has exhibition a widely diverse pattern across countries. Empirical work, relating to it macroeconomic variables, has had only limited success in...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: August 2000 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Pros And Cons Of Full Dollarization
It is analyzed in the paper that the cost and benefits of full dollarization compared to its closest alternative, a currency board, quantifying for Argentina...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: March 2000 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The International Monetary System In The (Very) Long Run
This paper takes stock of the evolution of the international monetary system over the last thousand years. Several points stand out from the analysis. One...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: March 2000 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Choice Of Exchange Rate Regime And Monetary Target In Highly Dollarized Economies
This paper examines the implications of high degrees of dollarization for the choice of exchange rate regime and the information content of various monetary aggregates...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: February 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers: A Cross-Country Investigation
A comprehension empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. This paper first presents a statistical summary of the...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2001 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Response Of The Current Account To Terms Of Trade Shocks: Persistence Matters
The question this article tries to address, is the relationship between the current account balance and other terms of trade affected by the persistence of...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: July 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Central Bank Foreign Exchange Market Intervention And Option Contract Specification: The Case of Colombia
This article aims to identify appropriate option contract specification for effective central bank exchange market intervention. Option contract specification determines the impact of options on...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: June 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Is Transparency Good For You, And Can The IMF Help?
This article finds that reforms introduced by the IMF to promote transparency have created more markets that are informed and reduced borrowing costs for those...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: June 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Millennium Development Goals, Capacity Building, and the Role of the IMF
The millennium development goals (MDGs) represent a global commitment to improve economic and social conditions in low-income countries. Capacity building is key to promoting higher...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: June 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Catalyzing Capital Flows: Do IMF-Supported Programs Work As Commitment Devices?
An objective of IMF-supported programs is to help countries to improve their access to international capital markets. In this article, one examines the issue whether...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: May 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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IMF Conditionality And Program Ownership: A Case For Streamlined Conditionality
Program conditionality and ownership are important considerations in the IMF’S current rethinking of program design. This article contributes by developing a theory of program conditionality...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: May 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Trade, Finance, Specialization, And Synchronization
This article investigates the determinants of business cycles synchronization across regions. It uses both international and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trades in...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: April 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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The Impact Of Monetary Policy On The Bilateral Exchange Rate: Chile Versus The United States
This article examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch$/US$ exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: April 2003 |
International Monetary Fund |
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