Social Spending in Korea: Can it Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth?
In: IMF Working Paper No. 12/250
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 06/239
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In: IMF Working Paper WP/14/227
In: IMF Working Papers v.Working Paper No. 14/227
Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account surplus, but would also raise output over the longer-run as well as generate beneficial regional spillovers. While time-to-build delays can weaken the impact of the stimulus in the short-run, the expansionary effects of higher public investment are substantially strengthened with an accommodative monetary policy stance-as is typical during periods of economic slack. The current low-interest rate envi
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Turkey is an interesting case study because it was one of the hardest hit emerging economies by the global financial crisis, with a year-over-year contraction of 15 percent during the first quarter of 2009. At the same time, anticipating the fallout from the crisis, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) decreased policy rates by an astounding 1025 basis points over the November 2008 to November 2009 period. In this context, this paper addresses the following broad question: If an inflation targeting framework underpinned by a flexible exchange rate regime was not adopted, how much
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Episodes of rapid credit growth, especially credit booms, tend to end abruptly, typically in the form of financial crises. This paper presents the findings of a comprehensive event study focusing on 99 credit booms. Loose monetary policy stances seem to have contributed to the build-up of credit booms across both advanced and emerging economies. In particular, domestic policy rates were below trend during the pre-peak phase of credit booms and likely fuelled macroeconomic and financial imbalances. For emerging economies, while credit booms are associated with episodes of large capital inflows
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In: IMF working paper WP/09/178
This paper develops a simple procedure for incorporating market-based information into the construction of fan charts. Using the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global growth forecast as a working example, the paper goes through the theoretical and practical considerations of this new approach. The resulting spreadsheet, which implements the approach, is available upon request from the authors
In: Emerging markets, finance and trade: EMFT, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 45-62
ISSN: 1558-0938
In: Emerging markets, finance and trade: EMFT, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 5-34
ISSN: 1558-0938
In: IMF Working Paper No. 2022/093
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 16/243
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 14/227
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 13/210
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In: IMF Working Paper No. 12/269
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In: IMF Working Paper No. NO.12/43
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In: IMF Working Papers, S. 1-74
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