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Equilibrium Exchange Rates : Assessment Methodologies

Author/Editor: Peter Isard.

Release Date:December, 2007

The paper describes six different methodologies that have been used to assess the equilibrium values of exchange rates and discusses their limitations. It applies several of the approaches to data more...



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The Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid : Opportunities and Pitfalls

Author/Editor: Boriana Yontcheva, Peter Isard, Leslie Lipschitz, Alex Mourmouras.

Release Date:April, 2006

Relatively slow progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 target date has added urgency to the challenge of reducing global poverty. The authors of this new more...



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Uncovered Interest Parity

Author/Editor: Peter Isard.

Release Date:April, 2006

This paper provides an overview of the uncovered interest parity assumption. It traces the history of the interest parity concept, summarizes evidence on the empirical validity of uncovered interest more...



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Can Public Discussion Enhance Program Ownership?

Author/Editor: Peter Isard, Allan Drazen.

Release Date:September, 2004

We use the concepts of deliberative democracy from political science and cheap talk from economics to develop a better understanding of how public discussion can contribute to building and more...



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Some Implications for Monetary Policy of Uncertain Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Author/Editor: Benjamin Hunt, Peter Isard.

Release Date:March, 2003

The paper uses MULTIMOD to examine the implications of uncertain exchange rate pass-through for the conduct of monetary policy. From the policymaker's perspective, uncertainty about exchange rate more...



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Methodology for Current Account and Exchange Rate Assessments

Author/Editor: G. Russell Kincaid, Martin Fetherston, Peter Isard, Hamid Faruqee.

Release Date:December, 2001



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Inflation Targeting with NAIRU Uncertainty and Endogenous Policy Credibility

Author/Editor: Peter Isard, Douglas Laxton, Ann-Charlotte Eliasson.

Release Date:January, 2001

Stochastic simulations are employed to compare performance of monetary policy rules in linear and nonlinear variants of a small macro model with NAIRU uncertainity under different assumptions about more...



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The Role of MULTIMOD in the IMF's Policy Analysis

Author/Editor: Peter Isard.

Release Date:June, 2000

This paper describes the basic structure, underlying philosophy, and key behavioral properties of MULTIMOD. It also focuses on several recent applications of macromodels in the IMF’s more...



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Exchange Rate Movements and Their Impact on Trade and Investment in the APEC Region

Author/Editor: Takatoshi Ito, Tamim Bayoumi, Peter Isard, Steven A Symansky.

Release Date:December, 1996

The 18 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) encompass not only a wide geographic area but also broad differences in stages of economic development, including among them more...



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Realignment Expectations, Forward Rate Bias, and Sterilized Intervention in an Adjustable Peg Exchange Rate Model with Policy Optimization

Author/Editor: Peter Isard.

Release Date:February, 1994

The paper models an adjustable peg exchange rate arrangement as a policy rule with an escape clause under which the timing and magnitudes of realignments are the outcomes of policy optimization more...



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