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The Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment : Evidence from Advanced Economies

Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, Davide Furceri, Petia Topalova.

Release Date:May, 2015

This paper provides new evidence of the macroeconomic effects of public investment in advanced economies. Using public investment forecast errors to identify the causal effect of government more...



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The Rising Resilience of Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, John C Bluedorn, Jaime Guajardo, Petia Topalova.

Release Date:December, 2012

Economic performance in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) improved substantially over the past twenty years. The past decade was particularly good—for the first time EMDEs spent more...



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Creditless Recoveries

Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Bin Li.

Release Date:March, 2011

Recoveries that occur in the absence of credit growth are often dubbed miracles and named after mythical creatures. Yet these are not rare animals, and are not always miracles. About one out of five more...



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How Does Trade Evolve in the Aftermath of Financial Crises?

Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, Petia Topalova, Prachi Mishra.

Release Date:January, 2011

We analyze trade dynamics following past episodes of financial crises. Using an augmented gravity model and 179 crisis episodes from 1970-2009, we find that there is a sharp decline in a country’s more...



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What’s the Damage? Medium-term Output Dynamics After Banking Crises

Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, Petya Koeva Brooks, Irina Tytell, Daniel Leigh, Ravi Balakrishnan.

Release Date:November, 2009

This paper investigates the medium-term behavior of output following banking crises, and its association with pre- and post-crisis conditions and policies. We find that output tends to be depressed more...



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Evaluating Historical CGER Assessments : How Well Have They Predicted Subsequent Exchange Rate Movements?

Author/Editor: Jungjin Lee, Abdul Abiad, Prakash Kannan.

Release Date:February, 2009

The IMF's Consultative Group on Exchange Rate issues (CGER) has been conducting exchange rate assessments as part of the surveillance process since 1997. This paper evaluates CGER assessments from more...



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A New Database of Financial Reforms

Author/Editor: Enrica Detragiache, Abdul Abiad, Thierry Tressel.

Release Date:December, 2008

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms, covering 91 economies over 1973–2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the more...



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International Finance and Income Convergence : Europe is Different

Author/Editor: Daniel Leigh, Abdul Abiad, Ashoka Mody.

Release Date:March, 2007

Recent studies conclude that the ongoing global financial integration may have had little or no value in advancing economic growth, especially in poor countries. Capital is often found to flow more...



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Growth in the Central and Eastern European Countries of the European Union

Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, Ashoka Mody, Susan Schadler, Daniel Leigh.

Release Date:January, 2007

The central challenges facing the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia as they work to catch up to advanced European Union (EU) income levels are more...



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Primary Surpluses and sustainable Debt Levels in Emerging Market Countries

Author/Editor: Jonathan David Ostry, Abdul Abiad.

Release Date:October, 2005

This paper aims to put some constraints on the way primary surpluses are projected when making assessments of public debt sustainability. Projections should be tied either to the country's historical more...



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