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Cover IMF Working Papers
Barriers to Trade in Financial and Insurance Services: Evidence from the United Kingdom
Jiri Podpiera
Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.’s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk of the U.K.’s exports. Trade barriers are confirmed only for interest-bearing activities – being in line with available results in the literature. The positive effect of EU membership appears to be small. Notwithstanding the uncertainties, it suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.’s export of financial and insurance services may be minor.
Keywords:
Export; Gravity Model; Financial Services; Insurance; Censored Regression; insurance service; A. financial services; U.K.'s export; evidence from the United Kingdom; U.K.'s export value; Exports; Trade barriers; Service exports; Global; export of financial service; export destination country population; EU membership; services from the U.K.
Cover Consumer Price Index Manual, 2020
Consumer Price Index Manual, 2020
Concepts and Methods
Brian Graf

Abstract

The Consumer Price Index Manual: Concepts and Methods contains comprehensive information and explanations on compiling a consumer price index (CPI). The Manual provides an overview of the methods and practices national statistical offices (NSOs) should consider when making decisions on how to deal with the various problems in the compilation of a CPI. The chapters cover many topics. They elaborate on the different practices currently in use, propose alternatives whenever possible, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative. The primary purpose of the Manual is to assist countries in producing CPIs that reflect internationally recommended methods and practices.

Keywords:
cconsumer price index; CPI; CPI Manual; CPI concepts; CPI methods; CPI practice; CPI best practice; CPI international recommendations; CPI weights; CPI data; CPI compilation; CPI calculation; index formulas; scanner data; web scraping; CPI outlets; CPI publication; CPI dissemination; CPI sampling; CPI items; CPI varieties; CPI missing prices; CPI quality adjustment; CPI linking; CPI and SNA; CPI overview; CPI data collection; CPI uses; CPI definitions; M&G; reference period; price change; price collector; price collection; CPI compiler; Consumer price indexes; Price indexes; Consumption; Export fluctuations; Global; Europe; North America
Cover IMF Working Papers
The Stabilizing Role of Net Foreign Asset Returns
Gustavo Adler
and
Mr. Daniel Garcia-Macia
With the rapid growth of countries' foreign asset and liability positions over the last two decades, financial returns on those positions ('NFA returns') have become material drivers of current accounts and net stock positions. This paper documents the relative importance of NFA return versus trade channels in driving NFA dynamics, for a sample of 52 economies over 1990-2015. While persistent trade imbalances have been a strong force leading to diverging NFA positions, NFA returns have played an important stabilizing role, mitigating NFA divergence. The stabilizing role of NFA returns primarily reflects the response of asset prices, rather than yield differentials or exchange rates. There is also evidence of heterogeneity in the speed of NFA adjustment, with emerging market economies adjusting more rapidly than advanced economies, and reserve-currency countries adjusting more slowly than others. The paper also documents the role of NFA returns as insurance against domestic and global income shocks, with a focus on reserve-currency countries.
Keywords:
WP; NFA return; net foreign assets; international investment position; valuation changes; return differential; NFA position; valuation change; NFA dynamics; Asset prices; Trade balance; Insurance; Income shocks; Exchange rates; Global
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Canada: 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
This Informational Annex highlights the Canadian authorities’ free-floating exchange rate regime. The exchange rate regime is free from exchange restrictions and multiple currency practices. The Canadian authorities do not maintain margins with respect to exchange transactions. However, the authorities may intervene to ensure orderly conditions in the exchange market. There are no taxes or subsidies on purchases or sales of foreign exchange. Canada’s exchange system is free of restrictions on the making of payments and transfers for current international transactions. Canada also maintains exchange restrictions for security reasons, based on UN Security Council resolutions reported to the IMF for approval.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; staff appraisal; investment outlook; sales expectation; stability assessment; IMF staff estimate; Mortgages; Housing prices; Health care spending; Insurance; Exports; Global
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Kingdom of the Netherlands-Aruba: Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
The note gives statistical data on Aruba with regard to indicators of tourism activity, components of GDP, real GDP, contributions to real GDP, growth, changes in consumer price index, and legal minimum wages. The statistical data of operations of the central government, operational budget of the social insurance bank, financial balance, balance of payments summary, non-oil balance of payments summary are detailed. The balance sheets of bank-like institutions, life insurance companies, and pension funds are given along with utilities housing mortgage statistics.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Aruba; web Aruba N.V.; interest cost; cost; goods; exports of goods; refinery product; net basis; CBS Aruba; refining fee; staff estimate; imports of goods; Imports; Exports; Gross fixed investment; Oil sector; Insurance
Cover Officially Supported Export Credits in a Changing World
Officially Supported Export Credits in a Changing World
Mr. Jian-Ye Wang
,
Mr. Yo Kikuchi
,
Mr. Sidhartha Choudhury
, and
Mr. Mario Mansilla

Abstract

This paper assesses the issues of government involvement in international trade finance stemming from the recent changes in global financial markets. This study is based on discussions with representatives of export credit agencies during the period from October 2003 to May 2004. A survey of 27 agencies provided valuable insights. Financial flows facilitated by official export credit agencies are large in comparison with official development assistance and gross lending by international financial institutions to developing countries. However, the importance of officially supported trade finance has been declining relative to the rapid expansion of world trade and total capital flows to developing countries. The study highlights the key challenges facing official export credit agencies, including complementing the private sector, facilitating financing to low-income countries while helping maintain these countries’ debt sustainability, and playing a positive role in the area of trade finance in international efforts to address emerging market financial crises.

Keywords:
WEFS; financing; trade; market; trade finance provider; export credit agency; OECD arrangement; trade finance advantage; export credit business; Export credits; Trade finance; Exports; Credit; Emerging and frontier financial markets; Africa; Global; Central and Eastern Europe; Sub-Saharan Africa; Europe; Insurance; Asia and Pacific
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
St. Lucia: Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; dollar; gross revenue; goods; goods export; value; unit price; St. Lucia air; factor cost; goods vehicle; factor service; primary sector; St. Lucia cooperative bank; Public sector; Exports; Insurance; Imports; Agricultural commodities; Caribbean
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Antilles: Assessment of the Supervision and Regulation of the Financial Sector Volume I—Review of Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision
International Monetary Fund
This review of financial sector regulation and supervision in the Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Antilles explains banking, insurance, and pension fund supervision. The Netherlands Antilles is resolved to remove the perception created by placement of the jurisdiction in the weakest category of the list of offshore financial centers, published by the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). Bank of the Netherlands Antilles (BNA) staff is highly capable, well-trained, and dedicated, and is able to attract appropriate personnel and material resources to perform its functions.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; free zone; due diligence; financial service; balance sheet; foreign exchange; State ordinance; companies registry; Insurance companies; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Money laundering; Insurance; Customs unions; Caribbean
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Israel: Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; Israel; net; U.S. dollar; market value; consumer goods; net domestic product; nominal rate; rate of return; private income; pound sterling; Imports; Consumer price indexes; Insurance; Budget planning and preparation; South America; Central America
Cover A Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services
A Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services
International Monetary Fund

Abstract

The Manual sets out an internationally agreed framework for the compilation and reporting of statistics on international trade in services in the broad sense. It addresses the growing need, including in international trade negotiations and agreements, for more detailed, comparable, and comprehensive statistics on this type of trade in its various forms. The recommendations will enable countries to progressively expand and structure the information they compile in an internationally comparable way. The Manual conforms with and explicitly relates to the System of National Accounts 1993 and the fifth edition of the IMF’s Balance of Payments Manual. It is published jointly by the United Nations, European Union, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, and World Trade Organization.

Keywords:
M&G; trade; non-resident trade; provision; supplier; trade statistics; transaction; service supplier; services enterprise; trade negotiator; company J; international trade; Trade in services; Transportation; Financial activity tax; Insurance; Foreign direct investment; Global