List of Country Abbreviations
Argentina |
ARG |
Antigua and Barbuda |
ATG |
Australia |
AUS |
Belize |
BLZ |
Bolivia |
BOL |
Brazil |
BRA |
Canada |
CAN |
Chile |
CHL |
China |
CHN |
Colombia |
COL |
Costa Rica |
CRI |
Dominica |
DMA |
Dominican Republic |
DOM |
Ecuador |
ECU |
El Salvador |
SLV |
Grenada |
GRD |
Guatemala |
GTM |
Guyana |
GUY |
Haiti |
HTI |
Honduras |
HND |
Hungary |
HUN |
India |
IND |
Indonesia |
IDN |
Israel |
ISR |
Jamaica |
JAM |
Korea |
KOR |
Malaysia |
MYS |
Mexico |
MEX |
Nicaragua |
NIC |
Nigeria |
NGA |
Norway |
NOR |
Panama |
PAN |
Paraguay |
PRY |
Peru |
PER |
Philippines |
PHL |
Poland |
POL |
Russia |
RUS |
Qatar |
QAT |
St. Kitts and Nevis |
KNA |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
VCT |
Saudi Arabia |
SAU |
Singapore |
SGP |
South Africa |
ZAF |
Thailand |
THA |
Trinidad and Tobago |
TTO |
Turkey |
TUR |
United States |
USA |
Uruguay |
URY |
Venezuela |
VEN |
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New Publications from the Western Hemisphere Department
IMF Working Papers
14/61
Exchange Rate Flexibility and Credit during Capital Inflow Reversals: Purgatory…not Paradise
Nicolas E. Magud and Esteban R. Vesperoni
14/60
Global Financial Shocks and Foreign Asset Repatriation: Do Local Investors Play a Stabilizing Role?
Gustavo Adler, Marie-Louise Djigbenou, and Sebastian Sosa
14/59
Fiscal Policy in Latin America over the Cycle
Alexander Klemm
14/28
The U.S. Manufacturing Recovery: Uptick or Renaissance?
Oya Celasun, Gabriel Di Bella, Tim Mahedy, and Chris Papageorgiou
13/251
Monetary Transmission in Brazil—Has the Credit Channel Changed?
Mercedes Garcia-Escribano
13/227
Sovereign Risk and Belief-Driven Fluctuations in the Euro Area
Giancarlo Corsetti, Keith Kuester, André Meier, and Gernot J. Mueller
13/217
Growth Following Investment and Consumption-Driven Current Account Crises
Alexander Klemm
13/206
State-Owned Banks and Fiscal Discipline
Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia and Francesco Grigoli
13/175
Financial Interconnectedness and Financial Sector Reforms in the Caribbean
Sumiko Ogawa, Joonkyu Park, Diva Singh, and Nita Thacker
13/171
What Explains Movements in the Peso/Dollar Exchange Rate?
Yi Wu
13/145
Potential Output and Output Gap in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic
Christian Johnson
13/136
The Economic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation with Debt Feedback
Marcello Estevão and Issouf Samake
13/117
Fiscal Multipliers in the ECCU
Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, Antonio Lemus, and Mico Mrkaic
13/109
Is the Growth Momentum in Latin America Sustainable?
Sebastian Sosa, Evridiki Tsounta, and Hye Kim
13/103
Four Decades of Terms-of-Trade Booms: Saving-Investment Patterns and a New Metric of Income Windfall
Gustavo Adler and Nicolas Magud
13/97
Productivity or Employment: Is It a Choice?
Gustavo Andrea De Michelis, Marcello Estevão, and Beth Anne Wilson
Selected Issues Papers
Brazil
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How Fast Can Brazil Grow?
Shaun Roache
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Financing Investment-Led Growth in Brazil
Shaun Roache and Anna Ter-Martirosyan
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Inflation in Brazil—Still Persistent?
Shaun Roache
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Monetary Transmission in Brazil—Has the Credit Channel Changed?
Mercedes Garcia-Esribano
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Public Debt Dynamics Under Brazil’s Fiscal Framework
Joana Pereira
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Credit in Brazil: Contribution to Growth in Recent Years
Mercedes Garcia-Esribano and Fei Han
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Understanding Housing Markets in Brazil: Mark II
Heedon Kang
Canada
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The Unconventional Energy Boom in North America: Macroeconomic Implications and Challenges for Canada
Lusine Lusinyan, Dirk Muir, Julien Reynaud, and Soma Patra
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Is “Dead” Money Alive? A Firm-Level Analysis of Canadian Non-Financial Listed Corporations Cash Holding and Capital Expenditure Behavior
Ivo Krznar, Tim Mahedy, and Julien Reynaud
Chile
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A Tale of Two Recoveries: The Post-Crisis Experience of Brazil and Chile
Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado and Sofía Bauducco
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Systemic Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Chile
Nicolas Arregui and Alejandro Jara
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What Explains Movements in the Peso/Dollar Exchange Rate?
Yi Wu, Diego Gianelli, Philip Liu, and Li Zeng
El Salvador
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Assessing Potential Output
Belen Sbrancia and Yulia Ustyugova
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Balance of Payments Stability Assessment
Yulia Ustyugova and Francisco Roch
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Assessing Spillovers
Yulia Ustyugova
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Public Debt Sustainability Analysis
Pablo Druck and Mario Garza
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Implementing Basel III Standards
Fernando Delgado
Guatemala
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Analytical Note I. Assessing Potential Output
Carlos Rondón
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Analytical Note II. Spillover Analysis
Carlos Rondón, Lennart Erickson, Yulia Ustyugova, and Eugenio Cerutti
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Analytical Note III. Fiscal Sustainability Assessment
Yulia Ustyugova
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Analytical Note IV. Balance Sheets
Stephanie Medina Cas
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Analytical Note V. Monetary Policy Stance
Carlos Rondón
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Analytical Note VI. Basel III
Fernando Delgado and Mynor Meza
Haiti
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Optimizing Fiscal Policy for High and Inclusive Growth in Haiti
Elva Bova
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A Renewed Public Investment Policy in Support of Growth and Poverty Reduction
Abdel Bessaha
Mexico
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Mexico—Reforms to the Fiscal Framework,
Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea Esteban Vesperoni, and Jeremy Zook
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Towards a Structural Fiscal Balance Measure for Mexico
Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea, Esteban Vesperoni, and Jeremy Zook
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Credit Risk Modeling—The Role of Macroeconomic Factors in the Mexican Banking System
Roberto Guimaraes-Filho
Paraguay
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Effective Banking Sector Spreads in Paraguay
Kevin Ross and Viviana Garay
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A Path to Financial De-dollarization in Paraguay
Juan F. Yépez
Peru
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Peru: Fiscal Framework Alternatives for a Resource Rich Country
Svetlana Vtyurina
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Resisting the Pressures from Capital Flows: Are Foreign Exchange Interventions Effective?
Melesse Tashu
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China’s Spillovers to Peru: Insights from a Macroeconomic Model for a Small Open and Partially Dollarized Economy
Fei Han and Juan Alonso Peschiera Perez-Salmon
Suriname
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Constructing A High-Frequency Economic Growth Indicator for Suriname
Jochen Schmittmann
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Suriname’s Exposure to Gold Price Fluctuations
Qiaoe Chen, Daniel Kanda, Mario Mansilla, and Jochen Schmittmann
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Monetary and Financial System of Suriname
Qiaoe Chen
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The Labor Market in Suriname
Qiaoe Chen, Daniel Kanda, Mario Mansilla, and Jochen Schmittmann
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Fiscal Sustainability and Natural Resource Wealth for Suriname
Mario Mansilla and Daniel Kanda
United States
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The U.S. Manufacturing Recovery: Uptick or Renaissance?
Oya Celasun, Gabriel Di Bella, Tim Mahedy, and Chris Papageorgiou
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Macroeconomic Implications of the U.S. Energy Boom
Ben Hunt, Martin Sommer, Gabriel Di Bella, Madelyn Estrada, Akito Matsumoto, and Dirk Muir
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Risky Business: The Uncertainty in U.S. Health Care Spending
Deniz Igan, Kenichiro Kashiwase, and Baoping Shang
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Are U.S. Small Businesses Credit Constrained?
Francesco Columba
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Exiting From Unconvential Monetary Policy: Potential Challenges and Risks
Rebecca McCaughrin and Tao Wu
Uruguay
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Why are Inflation and Inflation Expectations Above Target in Uruguay?
Camilo Tovar
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FDI in Uruguay: Recent Trends and Determinants
Camila Perez and Natalia Melgar
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Agricultural Land Prices—A Channel in the Transmission of Global Commodity Price Shocks on Economic Activity
Juan F. Yépez
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Competitiveness Trends in Uruguay
Garth P. Nicholls
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Fiscal Policy and Inflation in Uruguay: Exploring the Nexus
Camilo E. Tovar
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The Fiscal Regime for Large-Scale Mining in Uruguay
Victor Kitange