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Surges

Author/Editor: Mahvash S Qureshi, Atish R Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo, Jun I Kim.

Release Date:January, 2012

This paper examines why surges in capital flows to emerging market economies (EMEs) occur, and what determines the allocation of capital across countries during such surge episodes. We use two more...



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Capital Inflows and Balance of Payments Pressures : Tailoring Policy Responses in Emerging Market Economies

Author/Editor: Bikas Joshi, Manuela Goretti, Uma Ramakrishnan, Alun H Thomas, Atish R Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:June, 2008

Although capital inflows are generally beneficial to recipient countries, they also pose a challenge for the conduct of economic policy. This paper proposes a conceptual taxonomy to guide the design more...



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Bivariate Assessments of Real Exchange Rates Using PPP Data

Author/Editor: Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:June, 2008

This paper focuses on assessments of real exchange rates using PPP data and examines their limitations when these are based exclusively on bivariate estimations. It begins by presenting an analytical more...



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IMF Support and Crisis Prevention

Author/Editor: Atish R Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo, Alun H Thomas, Jun Il Kim, Uma Ramakrishnan, Bikas Joshi.

Release Date:May, 2008

This paper examines the various roles of IMF financing in crisis prevention. Emerging market economies that experienced financial crises in the past have been subject to enormous economic and social more...



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Modeling Aggregate Use of Fund Resources—Analytical Approaches and Medium-Term Projections

Author/Editor: Atish R Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo, Manuela Goretti, Bikas Joshi, Alun H Thomas.

Release Date:March, 2007

This paper presents two approaches to modeling the use of IMF resources in order to gauge whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or a permanent phenomenon. The two more...



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Determinants of Venezuela's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate

Author/Editor: Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:March, 2006

The Venezuelan Bolivar is pegged to the U.S. dollar and supported by foreign exchange restrictions. To assess the appropriateness of the peg during the current period of high oil export earnings and more...



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The Role of IMF Support in Crisis Prevention

Author/Editor: Uma Ramakrishnan, Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:March, 2006

This paper examines the role of IMF-supported programs in crisis prevention; specifically, whether, conditional on an episode of intense market pressures, IMF financial support helps prevent a more...



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The Design of IMF-Supported Programs

Author/Editor: Charalambos Christofides, Atish R Ghosh, Uma Ramakrishnan, Alun H Thomas, Laura Papi, Juan Zalduendo, Jun Il Kim.

Release Date:September, 2005

This collection of papers examines IMF-supported programs over the period 1995-2000 in both middle-income and low-income countries. In order to seek insights from a comparison across different types more...



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Review of the 2002 Conditionality Guidelines

Author/Editor: Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan, Alun H Thomas, Tessa Van der Willigen, Uma Ramakrishnan, S Reichold, Juan Zalduendo, James P Walsh.

Release Date:September, 2005

This paper focuses on the fact that the 2004–2005 conditionality review expands to include a review of the application of the new Guidelines on Conditionality, adopted in 2002. These guidelines more...



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Pace and Sequencing of Economic Policies

Author/Editor: Juan Zalduendo.

Release Date:June, 2005

This paper examines the design of economic policies using factor analysis, which has several advantages; in particular, it limits the problems that typically arise from the high correlation of more...



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