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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Mexico: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Mexico is an open economy with strong real and financial links to the rest of the world with risks of spillovers from global turbulence. Recent gains in market share in the U.S. manufacturing market are owed to improved relative unit labor costs and reemergence of a location advantage. Mexico’s current fiscal framework requires measures to offset the emerging challenges of a decline in oil revenues and the projected increase in health- and pensions-related spending. The sustained increase of bank credit after the global crisis has been reversed. The effects of migration depend on labor reform.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Mexico; migration flow; financing; migration; bank financing; banking sector credit; financing level; market financing; unemployment in Mexico; Income and capital gains taxes; Manufacturing; Bank credit; Tax expenditures; Global; Europe
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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
This special issue on exchange rates is drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007. The Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley Fischer focuses on exchange rate systems, surveillance, and advice. Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei examine the techniques for estimating de facto exchange rate regimes, while J. Lawrence Broz, Jeffry Frieden, and Stephen Weymouth review survey data to discern exchange rate policy attitudes. In a paper entitled "Fear of Declaring", Adolfo Barajas, Lennart Erickson, and Roberto Steiner try to determine the extent to which markets care about what countries say regarding their exchange rate policies.
Keywords:
SP; exchange rate movement; government balance; exchange rate regime; RR regime classification; regime choice; trade share; regime classification; world GDP; Exchange rates; Exchange rate arrangements; Personal income; Currencies; Exchange rate policy; Africa; Global; East Asia; Middle East; Southeast Asia; Western Hemisphere
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How Intensive Is Competition in the Emerging Markets? An Analysis of Corporate Rates of Return from Nine Emerging Markets
Ajit Singh
,
Mr. Rudolph Matthias
, and
Mr. Jack D. Glen
This large empirical study of corporate profitability in emerging markets during the 1980s and 1990s measures the intensity of competition. Data on corporate rates of return, profit margins, and output-capital ratios reveal that the recent liberalization has been associated with reduced corporate profit margins and improved capital utilization efficiency. The paper also analyzes persistency in corporate profitability and finds that competitiveness was no less intense in developing countries than in advanced countries. Although the paper is not directly concerned with the Asian crisis, it provides evidence on important structural hypotheses about the crisis.
Keywords:
WP; liberalization firm; firm's earnings; developing country; market share; Corporate Rates of Return; Intensity of Competition; Emerging Markets; Peruvian cement company; time series; textile company; ith firm; regression coefficient; return on assets; Competition; Capital adequacy requirements; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Business enterprises; Manufacturing; East Asia
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Geography, Trade Patterns, and Economic Policy
Mr. Carlos M. Asilis
and
Luis Rivera-Batiz
This paper presents a geographical theory of location and interregional trade. Location is treated as an endogenous variable by firms, consumers and perfectly mobile workers in a two-sector economy. Space plays a central role owing to transportation costs, market access, and distance from polluting industrial centers. The model is used to examine: (1) aspects of a compensating-differential theory of regional unevenness, (2) the theoretical formulation of a gravity theory of trade patterns, (3) the geographic basis for industrial and environmental policy, and (4) the interaction between reductions in transportation costs, location patterns, and technological improvements.
Keywords:
WP; increasing returns; cost of living; transportation cost; trade pattern; increasing returns to scale; resource allocation; cost reduction; Transportation; Manufacturing; Agricultural sector; Wages; Eastern Europe; North America; Asia and Pacific; Global