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A Simple Dge Model for Inflation Targeting

International Monetary Fund - 2007

The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT) emerging market economies. The paper uses a particularly simple and flexible general equilibrium model structure that can be amended to account for various phenomena that...

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Bank Insolvency and Stabilization in Eastern Europe

International Monetary Fund - 1992

The profound structural reform underway in Eastern Europe has revealed the weakness of the banking sector there; macroeconomic stability and other reforms are thereby threatened. After an overview of recent developments in the banking sectors of these countries, a model is developed that...

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Recapitalizing Banks with Public Funds : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 1999

restructuring and maximize the returns on government investment. The approaches to recapitalization have varied, with countries …

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Protecting Bank Deposits

International Monetary Fund - 1997

Banking crises have led many countries to consider deposit insuranceschemes to protect depositors and the banking system itself from the impact of bank failures. But should society be unconditionally responsible for underwiting banking decisions, even those imprudentlytaken? This paper considers...

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A General Equilibrium Model with Informal Financial Markets

International Monetary Fund - 1991

The paper presents a general equilibrium framework for short-run macroeconomic analysis in a developing country context where controls on interest rates and foreign exchange restrictions lead to the emergence of informal financial markets. The complexity of the model precludes an analytical...

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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment : A General Equilibrium Analysis for France

International Monetary Fund - 1997

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions...

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Involving the Private Sector in the Resolution of Financial Crises : Corporate Workouts

International Monetary Fund - 2001

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Valuation of Menu items in Debt Restructuring

International Monetary Fund - 1989

This paper outlines a procedure for calculating the cash value of “menu items” in debt restructuring proposals, including par and non-par exchanges, with enhancements consisting of either interest or principal guarantees. It is argued that under certain plausible assumptions interest and...

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Orderly and Effective Insolvency Procedures

International Monetary Fund - 1999

Written by IMF's Legal Department, this book outlines the key issues involved in designing and implementing orderly and effective insolvency procedures, which play a critical role in fostering growth and competitiveness and may also assist in the prevention and resolution of financial crises....

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Investment and Growth in the Arab World : A Scoping Note

International Monetary Fund - 2016

Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …

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