Volume/Issue: 2019/158
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jorge Alvarez
,
Ivo Krznar
, and
Trevor Tombe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
22
July
2019
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498326650.001
ISBN: 9781498326650
This paper assesses the costs of internal trade barriers and proposes policies to improve internal trade. Estimates suggest that complete liberalization of internal trade in goods can increase GDP per capita by abo...
Volume/Issue: 2019/158
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jorge Alvarez
,
Ivo Krznar
, and
Trevor Tombe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
22
July
2019
ISBN: 9781498326650
This paper assesses the costs of internal trade barriers and proposes policies to improve internal trade. Estimates suggest that complete liberalization of internal trade in goods can increase GDP per capita by abo...
Volume/Issue: 2018/237
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Troy Matheson
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
November
2018
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484381236.001
ISBN: 9781484381236
Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect
housing affordability. This paper utilizes a stylized model of the Canadian economy that
includes policymakers with differing obj...
Volume/Issue: 2018/237
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Troy Matheson
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
02
November
2018
ISBN: 9781484381236
Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect
housing affordability. This paper utilizes a stylized model of the Canadian economy that
includes policymakers with differing obj...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Mark Horton
,
George Tsibouris
,
Wojciech Maliszewski
, and
Mark Flanagan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
June
2006
ISBN: 9781589064584
An adjustment episode is defined as any year or succession of years of uninterrupted improvement in the fiscal primary balance, and focuses on the consolidated central government (o...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Mark Horton
,
George Tsibouris
,
Wojciech Maliszewski
, and
Mark Flanagan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
June
2006
ISBN: 9781589064584
Table A2.1.
Large Fiscal Adjustment Episodes
1...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Mark Horton
,
George Tsibouris
,
Wojciech Maliszewski
, and
Mark Flanagan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
June
2006
ISBN: 9781589064584
Thirteen case studies were prepared to supplement the empirical analysis.
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The case studies offer further evidence about success and adjustment d...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Mark Horton
,
George Tsibouris
,
Wojciech Maliszewski
, and
Mark Flanagan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
June
2006
ISBN: 9781589064584
The duration of fiscal consolidation can be expressed by a hazard function. A hazard function measures the probability that a fiscal consolidation will end in time period t, provide...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Mark Horton
,
George Tsibouris
,
Wojciech Maliszewski
, and
Mark Flanagan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
June
2006
ISBN: 9781589064584
Figure A5.1.
Event Studies: Key Macroeconomic Indicators
(Annual percentage change, unless indicated otherwise)...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Mark Horton
,
George Tsibouris
,
Wojciech Maliszewski
, and
Mark Flanagan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
14
June
2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589064584.084
ISBN: 9781589064584
When policymakers have little option but to consider a sizable fiscal adjustment, they are confronted by the following questions: Can a large fiscal adjustment be implemented succesfully? How is a large adjustment...
