Author/Editor: Magda E. Kandil, Genevieve Lindow, Mario Mansilla, Joel Chiedu Okwuokei, Jochen M. Schmittmann, Qiaoe Chen, Xin Li, Marika Santoro, Solomon Stavis.

Release Date:July, 2014

The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output more...

Author/Editor: Magda E. Kandil.

Release Date:April, 2014

The paper investigates asymmetry in the allocation of aggregate demand shocks between real output growth and price inflation over the business cycle in a sample of fifteen Caribbean countries. In more...

Author/Editor: Magda E. Kandil, Hanan Morsy.

Release Date:May, 2010

Across a sample of thirty four emerging countries, the evidence shows the frequent existence of a pro-cyclical fiscal impulse. However, the scope for countercyclical policy increases with the more...

Author/Editor: Magda E. Kandil, Hanan Morsy.

Release Date:April, 2009

Inflationary pressures have heightened in the oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) since 2003. This paper studies determinants of inflation in GCC, using an empirical model that includes domestic more...