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Soaring Prices Push Economies to Tipping Point: By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Surging food and fuel prices have pushed some countries to a "tipping point," the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday, threatening hard-won efforts in many African countries to stabilize their economies. "If food prices rise...; Tags: Food, IMF, Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Food & Beverage, Finance, Manufacturing, Oukbs; News items 2008-07-01
IMF Outlook on U.S. Economy Remains Bleak: MONTREAL (Reuters) - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sounded a pessimistic note on the U.S. economy on Monday, saying a stronger-than-expected first-quarter performance did not necessarily mean the worst is over. "I am only partly reassured by data for the first quarter ...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, inflation, bond, food price, consumer confidence, U.S., China, Thomson Reuters Corp., finance, performance, food; News items 2008-06-09
Keep Your Company Strong in a Slow Market: Every company needs to change its tactics during an economic slowdown. Here’s how the smart ones survive. How Banks Pulled Through the 2001 Recession Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Financial institutions came...; Tags: IMF, Working Capital, Managerial Accounting, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing, BNET Staff, Recession, Recession Proof, Recession Strategy, Top 5; Articles 2008-02-22
Daily Dispatch: Blackstone Group, Toyota, BP, U.S. Economy: Blackstone Group had the sixth-richest IPO in U.S. history today, with stock prices spiking more than 20 percent. Excitement about the private-equity industry helped boost the share prices, despite criticism of the lavish incomes of the group's executives, who will receive the bulk of the income from the...; Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, Manufacturing, Sales strategy, Nicole Solis, British Petroleum Co plc, Blackstone Group, Toyota Motor Corp., IPO, U.S. Economy; Blog posts 2007-06-22
BNET Daily Dispatch: Ford, Danone, ConocoPhillips, and the IMF: Ford recalled 527,000 SUVs today in response to reports of engine fires. The recall affects the Escape sports utility vehicle in the model years 2001 to 2004. A Ford representative said the engine fires were linked to a flaw in the anti-lock braking system. There have been no reported accidents...; Tags: Andrew Hines, Wahaha, engine fire, ConocoPhillips Co., IMF, Danone, Ford Motor Co.; Blog posts 2007-04-11

Fiscal and Monetary Nexus in Emerging Market Economies: How Does Debt Matter?: This paper examines two main aspects of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy in emerging market economies. First, it explores the interest rate-inflation relationship in economies with different levels of external and domestic public debt using panel- and cross-section data. The results show that interest rate-inflation elasticity weakens with...; Tags: IMF, emerging market; White papers 2006-08-01
The Level and Composition of Public Sector Debt in Emerging Market Crises: The paper examines the evolution of public sector debt levels and structures in 12 emerging market countries around the time of financial crises. In particular, it focuses on whether the debt situation of sovereign borrowers became more vulnerable in the aftermath of crises. The principal findings are that debt levels...; Tags: IMF, public sector, emerging market, banking, financial; White papers 2006-08-01
What Explains Private Saving in Mexico?: This paper examines the factors influencing Mexico's private saving rate. Cross-country analysis finds that Mexico's private saving is somewhat higher than could be explained by its fundamentals, but lower than in the average country in the sample. This analysis suggests that Mexico's greater reliance on external saving, its relatively high...; Tags: IMF, Mexico, financial system, analysis, financial; White papers 2006-08-01
Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter: Output drops are usually associated with major disruption for the residents of affected countries, both directly and often through ensuing, prolonged growth slowdowns. Using a century of data, the authors' document that output drops are more frequent in countries at a lower stage of economic development. The authors then turn...; Tags: IMF, analysis; White papers 2006-07-01
The Role of Seasonality and Monetary Policy in Inflation Forecasting: Adequate modeling of the seasonal structure of consumer prices is essential for inflation forecasting. This paper suggests a new econometric approach for jointly determining inflation forecasts and monetary policy stances, particularly where seasonal fluctuations of economic activity and prices are pronounced. In an application of the framework, the paper characterizes...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, consumer price, inflation, economic activity, forecasting, modeling; White papers 2006-07-01
IMF-Supported Programs and Crisis Prevention: An Analytical Framework: This paper presents an analytical framework for considering the role of IMF-supported programs in preventing crises, particularly capital account crises. The model builds upon the global games framework to establish a unique relationship between the crisis probability and the parameters of the program, which is assumed to be negotiated between...; Tags: Games, Investment, IMF, liquidity, financing, game; White papers 2006-06-01
Inflation Targeting in Dollarized Economies: The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market economies although, as noted by many economists, the preconditions required for a successful implementation were not in place. The existence of managed exchange rate regimes, a narrow base of domestic nominal financial assets,...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, inflation, emerging market, financial; White papers 2006-06-01
Getting Shut Out of the International Capital Markets: It Doesn't Take Much: This paper presents a simple model showing how easily an emerging market borrower can be shut out of international capital markets. The shut out can occur without markets first signaling problems through exorbitant lending rates. It also appears that even a modest haircut can shut down lending. This outcome is...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, IMF, capital market, Argentina, emerging market; White papers 2006-06-01
The Maastricht Inflation Criterion: How Unpleasant Is Purgatory?: The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "High-inflation" EU countries in line with "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively influenced the public stance toward low...; Tags: IMF, criterion, inflation, benefit, strategy; White papers 2006-06-01
An Empirical Investigation of the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Inflation in Tanzania: The paper examines the effect of exchange rate changes on consumer prices in Tanzania using structural Vector AutoRegression VAR models. Using a data set covering the period 1990 - 2005, it is found that the exchange rate pass-through to inflation declined in the late 1990s despite the depreciation of the...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, inflation; White papers 2006-06-01
U.S. Inflation Dynamics: What Drives Them Over Different Frequencies?: This paper aims to improve the understanding of U.S. inflation dynamics by separating out structural from cyclical effects using frequency domain techniques. Most empirical studies of inflation dynamics do not distinguish between secular and cyclical movements, and the paper shows that such a distinction is critical. In particular, the paper...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, inflation, technique; White papers 2006-06-01
The Role of Interest Rates in Business Cycle Fluctuations in Emerging Market Countries: The Case of Thailand: This paper employs the Global Economy Model GEM developed by the Research Department of the IMF. The authors extend GEM by incorporating balance sheet related credit market frictions and investigate how various exchange rate regimes affect the impact of foreign interest rate shocks on the Thai economy. This paper finds...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, IMF, Thailand, interest rate, emerging market; White papers 2006-05-01
Public Debt, Money Supply, and Inflation: A Cross-Country Study and Its Application to Jamaica: This paper provides comprehensive empirical evidence that supports the predictions of Sargent and Wallace's (1981) "Unpleasant monetarist arithmetic" that an increase in public debt is typically inflationary in countries with large public debt. Drawing on an extensive panel dataset, it is found that the relationship holds strongly in indebted developing...; Tags: Free trade, IMF, developing country, inflation; White papers 2006-05-01
Core Inflation Measures and Statistical Issues in Choosing Among Them: This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation, and the criteria for choosing among them. The approaches to measurement considered include exclusion-based methods, imputation methods, limited influence estimators, reweighting, and economic modeling. Criteria for judging which approach to use include credibility, control,...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, inflation, volatility, modeling; White papers 2006-04-01
Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: A New Data Set: This paper presents a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980. The data set focuses on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction of insurance, maturity, currency composition and indexation. The paper presents stylized facts on debt structures and preliminary evidence on their determinants....; Tags: Marketing research, IMF, emerging market, insurance, database; White papers 2006-04-01