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The Impact of Fiscal Consolidations on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Francisco Arizala, Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Charalambos G Tsangarides, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:December, 2017

This paper examines the output effects of changes in public expenditure and revenue in sub-Saharan African countries during 1990–2016. Fiscal multipliers in sub-Saharan Africa are somewhat smaller more...



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Growth Breaks and Growth Spells in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Francisco Arizala, Jesus R Gonzalez-Garcia, Charalambos G Tsangarides, Mustafa Yenice.

Release Date:September, 2017

This paper examines the growth performance of sub-Saharan African countries since 1960 through the lens of growth turning points (accelerations and decelerations) and periods of sustained more...



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Friedman Redux:External Adjustment and Exchange Rate Flexibility

Author/Editor: Atish R Ghosh, Mahvash S Qureshi, Charalambos G Tsangarides.

Release Date:August, 2014

Milton Friedman argued that flexible exchange rates would facilitate external adjustment. Recent studies find surprisingly little robust evidence that they do. We argue that this is because they use more...



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Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth

Author/Editor: Jonathan David Ostry, Andrew Berg, Charalambos G Tsangarides.

Release Date:February, 2014

The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering more...



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Determinants of Growth Spells: is Africa Different ?

Author/Editor: Charalambos G. Tsangarides.

Release Date:September, 2012

Do growth spells in Africa end because of bad realizations of the same factors that influence growth spells in the rest of the world, or because of different factors altogether? To answer this more...



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Shifting Motives: Explaining the Buildup in Official Reserves in Emerging Markets since the 1980s

Author/Editor: Atish R. Ghosh, Jonathan David Ostry, Charalambos G. Tsangarides.

Release Date:January, 2012

Why have emerging market economies (EMEs) been stockpiling international reserves? We find that motives have varied over time”vulnerability to current account shocks was relatively important in the more...



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Limited Information Bayesian Model Averaging for Dynamic Panels with An Application to a Trade Gravity Model

Author/Editor: Huigang Chen, Alin Mirestean, Charalambos G. Tsangarides.

Release Date:October, 2011

This paper extends the Bayesian Model Averaging framework to panel data models where the lagged dependent variable as well as endogenous variables appear as regressors. We propose a Limited more...



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Words vs. Deeds:What Really Matters?

Author/Editor: Mahvash S Qureshi, Atish R Ghosh, Charalambos G Tsangarides.

Release Date:May, 2011

This paper revisits the link between the nominal exchange rate regime and inflation, based on a sample of 145 emerging market and developing countries (EMDCs) over the period 1980-2010. We contend more...



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Exchange Rate Regimes and the Stability of the International Monetary System

Author/Editor: Atish R. Ghosh, Jonathan David Ostry, Charalambos G. Tsangarides.

Release Date:March, 2011

The member countries of the International Monetary Fund collaborate to try to assure orderly exchange arrangements and promote a stable system of exchange rates, recognizing that the essential more...



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Monetary Policy Transmission in Mauritius Using a VAR Analysis

Author/Editor: Charalambos G. Tsangarides.

Release Date:February, 2010

Applying commonly used vector autoregression (VAR) techniques, this paper investigates the transmission mechanism of monetary policy on output and prices for Mauritius, using data for 1999-2009. The more...



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