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The Ties that Bind : Measuring International Bond Spillovers Using Inflation-Indexed Bond Yields

Author/Editor: Andrew Swiston, Tamim Bayoumi.

Release Date:June, 2007

This paper explores international bond spillovers using daily and intra-day data on yields on inflation-indexed bonds and associated inflation expectations for the United States, Australia, Canada, more...



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Mr. Ricardo's Great Adventure : Estimating Fiscal Multipliers in a Truly Intertemporal Model

Author/Editor: Silvia Sgherri, Tamim Bayoumi.

Release Date:July, 2006

We estimate tax multipliers in a Blanchard-Yaari consumption model where Ricardian equivalence is broken because the private sector discounts the future at a faster rate than the real rate of more...



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Energy, the Exchange Rate, and the Economy : Macroeconomic Benefits of Canada's Oil Sands Production

Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Martin Mühleisen.

Release Date:March, 2006

This paper describes potential benefits from Canada's expanding oil sands production, higher energy exports, and further improvements in the terms of trade. Contrary to the previous Canadian exchange more...



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Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets

Author/Editor: Bennett Sutton, Tamim Bayoumi, Andrew Swiston.

Release Date:March, 2006

We analyze the flexibility of the Canadian labor market across provinces in both an interand intra-national context using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for more...



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Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security and Tax Reform in the United States

Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Dennis P J Botman, Manmohan S Kumar.

Release Date:November, 2005

We use the IMF's Global Fiscal Model to evaluate recent proposals to reform social security and the tax system in the United States. Introducing personal retirement accounts is unlikely to yield more...



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GEM : A New International Macroeconomic Model

Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Hamid Faruqee, Douglas Laxton, Philippe D Karam, Alessandro Rebucci, Jaewoo Lee, Benjamin Hunt, Ivan Tchakarov.

Release Date:November, 2004

Over the past two years, the IMF staff has been developing a new multicountry macroeconomic model called the Global Economy Model (GEM). This paper explains why such a model is needed, how GEM more...



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Deconstructing the Art of Central Banking

Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Silvia Sgherri.

Release Date:October, 2004

This paper proposes a markedly different transmission mechanism from monetary policy to the macroeconomy, focusing on how policy changes nominal inertia in the Phillips curve. Using recent more...



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Monetary Magic? How the Fed Improved the Flexibility of the U.S. Economy

Author/Editor: Silvia Sgherri, Tamim Bayoumi.

Release Date:February, 2004

Extending recent theoretical contributions on sources of inflation inertia, we argue that monetary uncertainty accounts for sluggish expectations adjustment to nominal disturbances. Estimating a more...



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Fatal Attraction : A New Measure of Contagion

Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Manmohan S Kumar, Giorgio Fazio, Ronald MacDonald.

Release Date:April, 2003

This paper proposes a new measure of contagion that is good at anticipating future vulnerabilities. Building on previous work, it uses correlations of equity markets across countries to measure more...



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Are they All in the Same Boat? the 2000-2001 Growth Slowdown and the G-7 Business Cycle Linkages

Author/Editor: Thomas Helbling, Tamim Bayoumi.

Release Date:March, 2003

This paper reviews the international business cycle among Group of Seven (G-7) countries since 1973 from two angles. An examination of business cycle synchronization among these countries using more...



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