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Weather Shocks and Exchange Rate Flexibility

Author/Editor: Selim Elekdag, Maxwell Tuuli.

Release Date:May, 2022

This paper assesses the stabilization properties of fixed versus flexible exchange rate regimes and aims to answer this research question: Does greater exchange rate flexibility help an economy's more...



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Breaking the Bank? A Probabilistic Assessment of Euro Area Bank Profitability

Author/Editor: Selim Elekdag, Sheheryar Malik, Srobona Mitra.

Release Date:November, 2019

This paper explores the determinants of profitability across large euro area banks using a novel approach based on conditional profitability distributions. Real GDP growth and the NPL ratio are shown more...



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Growth at Risk: Concept and Application in IMF Country Surveillance

Author/Editor: Ananthakrishnan Prasad, Selim Elekdag, Phakawa Jeasakul, Romain Lafarguette, Adrian Alter, Alan Xiaochen Feng, Changchun Wang.

Release Date:February, 2019

The growth-at-risk (GaR) framework links current macrofinancial conditions to the distribution of future growth. Its main strength is its ability to assess the entire distribution of future GDP more...



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Can Countries Manage Their Financial Conditions Amid Globalization?

Author/Editor: Nicolas Arregui, Selim Elekdag, R G Gelos, Romain Lafarguette, Dulani Seneviratne.

Release Date:January, 2018

This paper examines the evolving importance of common global components underlying domestic financial conditions. It develops financial conditions indices (FCIs) that make it possible to compare a more...



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Emerging Market Corporate Leverage and Global Financial Conditions

Author/Editor: Adrian Alter, Selim Elekdag.

Release Date:December, 2016

Corporate debt in emerging markets has risen significantly in recent years amid accommodative global financial conditions. This paper studies the relationship of leverage growth in emerging market more...



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Das Public Kapital: How Much Would Higher German Public Investment Help Germany and the Euro Area?

Author/Editor: Selim Elekdag, Dirk Muir.

Release Date:December, 2014

Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account more...



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Trade Linkages, Balance Sheets, and Spillovers: The Germany-Central European Supply Chain

Author/Editor: Selim Elekdag, Dirk Muir.

Release Date:October, 2013

Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in aprocess of deepening economic integration which has lead to the development of a dynamicsupply chain within more...



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Shock Therapy! What Role for Thai Monetary Policy?

Author/Editor: Harun Alp, Selim Elekdag.

Release Date:November, 2012

Thailand had to endure three major shocks during 2008–2011: the global financial crisis, the Japanese earthquake, and the Thai floods of 2011. Over this period, consistent with its inflation more...



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The Evolution of Asian Financial Linkages: Key Determinants and the Role of Policy

Author/Editor: Selim Elekdag, Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul, Yiqun Wu.

Release Date:November, 2012

This paper examines how Asian financial linkages with systemic economies have changed over time. After developing a factor model, it estimates Asian financial sensitivities to systemic economies, and more...



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Social Spending in Korea

Author/Editor: Selim Elekdag.

Release Date:October, 2012

Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a more...



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