Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
November
2018
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484375402.086
ISBN: 9781484375402
Economic activity continued to expand
in the first half of 2018, albeit at a slower-than-expected pace, mainly in
advanced Europe. Domestic demand, supported by stronger employment and wages,
remains the main engin...
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
15
May
2018
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484339909.086
ISBN: 9781484339909
Europe continues to enjoy a strong growth spurt. Growth has firmed up in many European economies and the forecast is for more of the same. Real GDP increased by 2.8 percent in 2017, up from 1.8 percent in 2016. The...
Volume/Issue: 2018/3
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s):
Helge Berger
,
Giovanni Dell'Ariccia
, and
Maurice Obstfeld
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
20
February
2018
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781484340424.087
ISBN: 9781484340424
The paper makes an analytical contribution to the revived discussion about the euro area's institutional setup. After significant progress during the euro crisis, the drive to complete Europe's Economic and Monetar...
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s):
Benedict Clements
,
David Coady
,
Frank Eich
,
Sanjeev Gupta
,
Alvar Kangur
,
Baoping Shang
, and
Mauricio Soto
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
January
2016
Language: Chinese
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9787504979971.084
ISBN: 9787504979971
Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. In advanced economies the challenge is generally to contain future increases in public pension spending as the population...
Volume/Issue: 2014/170
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ellen Gaston
, and
In Song
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
05
November
2015
Language: Chinese
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781513590479.001
ISBN: 9781513590479
Countries implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for loan loss provisioning by banks have been guided by two different approaches: International Accounting Standards (IAS) 39 and Basel stan...
Volume/Issue: 2015/5
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Angana Banerji
,
Huidan Lin
, and
Sergejs Saksonovs
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
21
January
2015
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498382519.001
ISBN: 9781498382519
The crisis has intensified what was previously a chronic unemployment problem in Europe; youth unemployment is now at unprecedented highs in some European countries. This paper assesses the main drivers of youth un...
Volume/Issue: 2014/103
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Heiko Hesse
,
Ferhan Salman
, and
Christian Schmieder
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
12
June
2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498379083.001
ISBN: 9781498379083
One of the challenges of financial stability analysis and bank stress testing is how to establish scenarios with meaningful macro-financial linkages, i.e., taking into account spillover effects and other forms of c...
Volume/Issue: 2008/211
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Paul Hilbers
,
Angana Banerji
,
Haiyan Shi
, and
Alexander Hoffmaister
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451870695.001
ISBN: 9781451870695
House prices in Europe have shown diverging trends, and this paper seeks to explain these differences by analyzing three groups of countries: the "fast lane", the average performers, and the slow movers. Price move...
Volume/Issue: 2005/71
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
David Hauner
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2005
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451860900.001
ISBN: 9781451860900
Projections of age-related public expenditure growth have raised widespread concerns about fiscal sustainability. This paper examines how total expenditure would develop under four policy rules on public expenditur...
Volume/Issue: 2001/84
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Thomas Kraus
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2001
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451850642.001
ISBN: 9781451850642
Using symmetric data sets of 92 weekly return observations before and after the introduction of the euro, the paper analyzes the impact of the new currency on the return structure of equity markets in the European...
