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Comparing Average and Individual Forecasts for a Large International Panel
We study forecasts for real GDP growth using a large panel of individual forecasts from 36 advanced and emerging economies during 1989–2010. We show...
Analysis of policies for managing public sector wage bills in the Middle East and Central Asia region. While some work has been done recently at the F...
Evidence from a Large International Panel
We examine the behavior of forecasts for real GDP growth using a large panel of individual forecasts from 30 advanced and emerging economies during 19...
This paper evaluates the strength of the balance sheet channel in the U.S. monetary policy transmission mechanism over the past three decades. Using a...
A Viewon the Eve of the Financial Crisis
We present a novel and comprehensive dataset of bilateral gross and net external positions in various financial instruments for the main advanced and ...
From Crisis to Recovery
This paper discusses how Malaysia can better protect itself from future shocks and avoid another crisis while it seeks to regain its position as one o...
Housing, Credit, and Real Activity
We examine the characteristics and comovement of cycles in house prices, credit, real activity and interest rates in advanced economies during the pas...
The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade flows was examined by a 1984 IMF study on G-7 countries. Over the past two decades, many developments ...
The paper evaluates how increases in banks’ and nonfinancial corporates’ default risk are transmitted in the global economy, using in a vector aut...
Recourse to controls on capital flows among developing economies is generally quite pervasive. This paper examines the structure and determinants of c...
Some Cross-Country Evidence
We document information rigidity in forecasts for real GDP growth in 46 countries over the past two decades. We investigate: (i) if rigidities are low...
Implications for the Fund
This paper reviews the characteristics of international trade in services and of the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Servic...