Author/Editor: Desmond Lachman, Ramana Ramaswamy, J H Green, Robert P Hagemann, Adam Bennett.

Release Date:October, 1995

Sweden's economy in the early 1990s has been characterized by a deep recession, high unemployment, a ballooning public sector budgete deficit, and a decline in the value of the currency- developments more...

Author/Editor: Adam Bennett, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Miguel A Savastano, María Vicenta Carkovic S, Mauro Mecagni, Susan Schadler, James John.

Release Date:September, 1995

This paper is part II of a two-volume study conducted as a part of the IMF's ongoing process of evaluating its lending facilities. It focuses on IMF-supported programs and macroeconomic performance more...

Author/Editor: Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Miguel A Savastano, Adam Bennett, María Vicenta Carkovic S, Mauro Mecagni, James John, Susan Schadler.

Release Date:September, 1995

This paper is Part I of a two-volume study conducted as a part of the IMF's ongoing process of evaluating its lending facilities. It focuses on IMF-supported programs and macroeconomic performance more...

Author/Editor: Adam Bennett.

Release Date:September, 1994

This paper discusses some of the issues that concern the operation of currency boards, by comparison to conventional exchange rate pegs, and looks at the experiences of three examples of this type of more...

Author/Editor: Robert Brandon Kahn, Adam Bennett, María Vicenta Carkovic S, Susan Schadler.

Release Date:September, 1993

This paper explores the experience of six countries (Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico, Spain and Thailand) with capital inflows. It illustrates that although capital inflows are usually beneficial, too more...

Author/Editor: Adam Bennett.

Release Date:January, 1993

Author/Editor: Susan Schadler, Adam Bennett.

Release Date:September, 1992

Interest rate policy in the newly reforming Central and Eastern European countries has generally been geared toward establishing positive real interest rates and defending the exchange rate. The more...