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China's Rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and Growth »
Source: China's Rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and Growth : Firm-level Evidence
Volume/Issue: 2016/249
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Hui He , Nan Li , and Jing Fang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 December 2016
ISBN: 9781475563139
Keywords: Business enterprises, Productivity, China, Asia and Pacific, Technological innovation, Public corporations, Innovation, Growth, Patent, R&;D
This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent...
Deposit Insurance, Remittances, and Dollarization »
Source: Deposit Insurance, Remittances, and Dollarization : Survey-Based Evidence from a Top Remittance-Receiving Country
Volume/Issue: 2017/132
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): David Grigorian , and Maxym Kryshko
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 June 2017
ISBN: 9781484300718
Keywords: Remittances, Tajikistan, Middle East, Deposit insurance, Dollarization, Government Policy and Regulation
The paper uses a unique survey of remittance-receiving individuals from Tajikistan to study the impact of policy awareness on consumer behavior. The results show that knowledge of deposit insurance encourages the u...
Djibouti: la recherche d'une croissance inclusive »
Source: Djibouti: la recherche d'une croissance inclusive
Volume/Issue: 2017/270
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 05 December 2017
ISBN: 9781484331132
Keywords: Middle East, Djibouti, croissance, inclusion, inegalites, reduction de la pauvrete, General, Aggregate Factor Income Distribution, Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Le présent document examine les réformes macroéconomiques que Djibouti doit opérer en vue de devenir un pays à revenu intermédiaire comme prévu dans la stratégie de développement des autorités, Vision Djibouti 2035...
Djibouti's Quest for Inclusive Growth »
Source: Djibouti's Quest for Inclusive Growth
Volume/Issue: 2017/270
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Alexei Kireyev
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 05 December 2017
ISBN: 9781484331118
Keywords: Middle East, Djibouti, Poverty reduction, growth, inclusiveness, inequality, General, Aggregate Factor Income Distribution, Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
The paper reviews Djibouti's macroeconomic reforms aimed at achieving middle-income status as envisaged in Vision Djibouti 2035, the authorities' development strategy. In this context, the paper reviews policy opti...
Does the Stock Market Boost Firm Innovation? »
Source: Does the Stock Market Boost Firm Innovation? : Evidence from Chinese Firms
Volume/Issue: 2017/147
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Hui He , Hanya Li , and Jinfan Zhang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 30 June 2017
ISBN: 9781484303726
Keywords: China, People's Republic of, Asia and Pacific, China, Corporate governance, IPO, Innovation, Financial Constraint, State Ownership, Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis, Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
The paper analyses the effect of the stock market on firm innovation through the lens of initial public offering (IPO) using uniquely matched Chinese firm-level data. We find that IPOs lead to an increase in both t...
Dynamic Fuel Price Pass-Through »
Source: Dynamic Fuel Price Pass-Through : Evidence from a New Global Retail Fuel Price Database
Volume/Issue: 2016/254
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Kangni Kpodar , and Chadi Abdallah
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 23 December 2016
ISBN: 9781475563221
Keywords: Developed countries, Emerging markets, Europe, Gasoline prices, Fuels, Commodity price shocks, Price increases, Oil product prices, North Africa, Oil
This paper assesses the dynamic pass-through of crude oil price shocks to retail fuel prices using a novel database on monthly retail fuel prices for 162 countries. The impulse response functions suggest that on av...
Empirical Estimation of Fiscal Multipliers in MENA Oil-Exporting Countries with an Application to Algeria »
Source: Empirical Estimation of Fiscal Multipliers in MENA Oil-Exporting Countries with an Application to Algeria
Volume/Issue: 2018/124
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Maria Elkhdari , Moez Souissi , and Andrew Jewell
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 31 May 2018
ISBN: 9781484357972
Keywords: Algeria, Middle East, Fiscal policy; State-dependent multipliers; Output gap; Spending direction; Algeria; Structural Vector Autoregressive Model; Local Projection Methodology, Fiscal policy, State-dependent multipliers, Output gap, Spending direction, Structural Vector Autoregressive Model, Local Projection Methodology, Model Construction and Estimation
At a time when Algeria must undertake considerable fiscal consolidation to restore sustainability, the issue of fiscal multipliers has come to the fore. This paper estimates short-term and long-term fiscal multipli...
Fiscal Adjustment in the Gulf Countries: Less Costly than Previously Thought »
Source: Fiscal Adjustment in the Gulf Countries: Less Costly than Previously Thought
Volume/Issue: 2018/133
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Armand Fouejieu , Sergio Rodriguez , and Sohaib Shahid
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 June 2018
ISBN: 9781484361573
Keywords: Economic growth, Government expenditures, Fiscal policy, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stimulus and multipliers, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Fiscal Multiplier, GCC, General, Asia including Middle East
This paper estimates fiscal multipliers for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Using OLS panel fixed effects on a sample of six countries from 1990-2016, results indicate that GCC fiscal multipliers have...
The Fiscal Cost of Conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005-2016 »
Source: The Fiscal Cost of Conflict: Evidence from Afghanistan 2005-2016
Volume/Issue: 2018/204
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Philip Barrett
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 September 2018
ISBN: 9781484374931
Keywords: Fiscal policy, Middle East, Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of, conflict, peace dividend, AfghanistanI, Afghanistan, Structure and Scope of Government, Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
I use a monthly panel of provincially-collected central government revenues and conflict fatalities to estimate government revenues lost due to conflict in Afghanistan since 2005. I identify causal effects by instr...
Food Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa »
Source: Food Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa : Causes and Policy Implications
Volume/Issue: 2016/247
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Emre Alper , Niko Hobdari , and Ali Uppal
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 December 2016
ISBN: 9781475563115
Keywords: South Africa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, Sudan, Swaziland
This paper analyzes food inflation trends in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 2000 to 2016 using two novel datasets of disaggregated CPI baskets. Average food inflation is higher, more volatile, and similarly persiste...