Volume/Issue: 2016/25
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Atish Ghosh
, and
Mahvash Qureshi
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
February
2016
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498332835.001
ISBN: 9781498332835
This paper investigates why controls on capital inflows have a bad name, and evoke such visceral opposition, by tracing how capital controls have been used and perceived, since the late nineteenth century. While ad...
Volume/Issue: 2014/130
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Thierry Tressel
, and
Shengzu Wang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
22
July
2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498334426.001
ISBN: 9781498334426
The paper examines progress with the external rebalancing of euro area deficit countries. Relative prices are adjusting at different pace across countries and with different compositions of wage cuts and labor shed...
Volume/Issue: 2013/217
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Alexander Klemm
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
23
October
2013
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484321898.001
ISBN: 9781484321898
Current account deficits imply increasing liabilities to the rest of the world. External sustainability then depends on whether these can be met in the future without defaulting, i.e., normally through trade accoun...
Volume/Issue: 2013/52
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ali Al-Sadiq
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
26
February
2013
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475517934.001
ISBN: 9781475517934
Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition economies has increased significantly. Given the role of physical capital accumulation in determi...
Volume/Issue: 2012/61
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Anna Ivanova
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463937799.001
ISBN: 9781463937799
The discussion of global and regional imbalances has put the spotlight on the possible link between current accounts and structural policies. Drawing on standard empirical current account models, the paper finds th...
Volume/Issue: 2011/246
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Maelan Le Goff
, and
Kangni Kpodar
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463923259.001
ISBN: 9781463923259
Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remitt...
Volume/Issue: 2010/187
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jiangyan Yu
, and
James Walsh
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
August
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455202218.001
ISBN: 9781455202218
Using a dataset which breaks down FDI flows into primary, secondary and tertiary sector investments and a GMM dynamic approach to address concerns about endogeneity, the paper analyzes various macroeconomic, develo...
Volume/Issue: 2010/9
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Aaron Howard Clifford Brown
,
Michael Papaioannou
, and
Iva Petrova
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451961904.001
ISBN: 9781451961904
This paper analyses the links between the investment strategies of a commodity-based SWF and the macroeconomic framework of the owner country. We examine some basic macrofinancial linkages of an SWF's strategic ass...
Volume/Issue: 2009/127
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jörg Decressin
, and
Emil Stavrev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451872743.001
ISBN: 9781451872743
A fear about EMU was that in the absence of national currencies, country-specific shocks would result in greater current account divergences between member states. This paper finds that divergences across euro-area...
Series: Balance of Payments Statistics
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Statistics Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
03
October
2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557757197.044
ISBN: 9781557757197
The IMF Committee on Balance of Payments Statistics was established in 1992 to promote accuracy and cooperation in the compilation of balance of payments statistics. Membership of the Committee, which advises the I...