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Guarding Against Fiscal Risks in Hong Kong SAR

International Monetary Fund - 2007

volatility creates risks to service provision, possibly entailing sudden tax changes, or even requiring new borrowing. After … fiscal savings (reserves), and the impact alternate policy choices could have on revenue volatility …

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Elasticity Optimism

International Monetary Fund - 2009

In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...

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Saving-Investment Correlations : Immobile Capital. Government Policy or Endogenous Behavior?

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over time. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed high correlations over the recent period is probably government policy

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Moreon the Effectiveness of Public Spendingon Health Care and Education : A Covariance Structure Model

International Monetary Fund - 2002

Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education...

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Macrofinancial Linkages of the Strategic Asset Allocation of Commodity-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010

This paper analyses the links between the investment strategies of a commodity-based SWF and the macroeconomic framework of the owner country. We examine some basic macrofinancial linkages of an SWF's strategic asset allocation (SAA) strategies with regard to the government budget, monetary...

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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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Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade Flows : Some New Evidence

International Monetary Fund - 2004

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Exchange Rate Movements and International Interdependence of Stock Markets

International Monetary Fund - 1989

the main sources of shocks is used to argue that the time-varying correlation in the data can be reconciled with the … predictions of the theory …

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Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility : The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. We incorporate a multi … exchange rate volatility depends on relative technological differences and trade costs. These differences highlight a new … volatility. We then test the importance of this channel using a large panel of cross-country data over 1970-97, and find strong …

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Remoteness and Real Exchange Rate Volatility

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. The channel is examined by constructing … higher trade costs result in a larger nontradable sector. This, in turn, leads to higher real exchange rate volatility. We …

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