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Exchange Rate Volatility and World Trade

International Monetary Fund - 1984

In View of the continuation of substantial movements in exchange rate relationships among major currencies, the recent increase in protectionist pressures, and the disappointing performance of world trade, renewed concern has been expressed about the possible adverse effects of exchange rate...

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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies

International Monetary Fund - 2017

Capital flows can deliver substantial benefits for countries, but also have the potential to contribute to a buildup of systemic financial risk. Benefits, such as enhanced investment and consumption smoothing, tend to be greater for countries whose financial and institutional development enables...

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Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows : The Role of Macroprudential Policies

International Monetary Fund - 2017

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade Flows : Some New Evidence

International Monetary Fund - 2004

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Managing Volatility in Low-Income Countries : The Role and Potential for Contingent Financial Instruments

International Monetary Fund - 2011

The paper examines the case for contingent financial instruments for low-income countries (LICs), from both the market and official sector. These include commodity price hedging instruments, contingent debt instruments (commodity-linked bonds, deferred repayment loans), and natural disaster...

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Managing Volatility : A Vulnerability Exercise for Low-Income Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2011

This paper, introduces the analytical framework for a Vulnerability Exercise for Low-Income Countries (VE-LIC). The envisaged exercise will strive to identify vulnerabilities and emerging risks that arise from changes in the external environment in a consistent manner across countries and across...

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Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices in Neoclassical Model

International Monetary Fund - 1988

This paper presents a neoclassical model that explains the observed empirical relationship between government spending and world commodity supplies and the real exchange rate and real commodity prices. It is shown that fiscal expansion and increasing world commodity supplies simultaneously lead...

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Exchange Rate Movements and International Interdependence of Stock Markets

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper investigates linkages between stock markets in seven industrialized countries since 1974. Empirical evidence shows that both nominal and real stock prices (and returns) are strongly positively correlated across countries, and that nominal exchange rate changes do not have systematic...

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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth

International Monetary Fund - 2012

This paper studies the impact of the level and volatility of the commodity terms of trade on economic growth, as well … of trade growth enhances real output per capita, volatility exerts a negative impact on economic growth operating mainly … trade volatility offset the positive impact of commodity booms; and export diversification of primary commodity abundant …

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Indonesia : sustaining growth during global volatility

Rumbaugh, Thomas (contributor) - 2012

indicators, the contributors have delved into the ways that global volatility, especially since 2008, has affected Indonesia and …

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