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Cover IMF Working Papers
Spillovers to and from the Nordic Economies: A Macroeconometric Model Based Analysis
Mr. Francis Vitek
This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks and policies among and across the Nordic economies and the rest of the world. This spillover analysis is based on a pair of estimated structural macroeconometric models of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. We find that the Nordic economies are heavily exposed to external macroeconomic and financial shocks, but have significant scope to mitigate their domestic macroeconomic impacts through coordinated policy responses, given their high degree of regional integration.
Keywords:
WP; economy; Nordic economy; output spillover; Spillover analysis; Trade linkages; Financial linkages; External risks; Policy coordination; output loss; spillover coefficient; risk premium shock; export exposure; source economy; Return on investment; Spillovers; Stock markets; Securities markets; Exports; Global
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New Evidenceon Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment
Mr. Jinzhu Chen
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Mr. Bharat Trehan
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Mr. Prakash Kannan
, and
Mr. Prakash Loungani
We provide cross-country evidence on the relative importance of cyclical and structural factors in explaining unemployment, including the sharp rise in U.S. long-term unemployment during the Great Recession of 2007-09. About 75% of the forecast error variance of unemployment is accounted for by cyclical factors-real GDP changes (?Okun‘s Law?), monetary and fiscal policies, and the uncertainty effects emphasized by Bloom (2009). Structural factors, which we measure using the dispersion of industry-level stock returns, account for the remaining 25 percent. For U.S. long-term unemployment the split between cyclical and structural factors is closer to 60-40, including during the Great Recession.
Keywords:
WP; dispersion index; Dispersion shock; stock market dispersion index; unemployment; structural unemployment; stock markets; uncertainty; uncertainty index; long-term unemployment; unemployment fluctuation; structural unemployment rate; aggregate unemployment equation; unemployment duration; index result; unemployment rate shock; employment dispersion; Unemployment rate; Asset prices
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Valuation of Unlisted Direct Investment Equity
Thomas Elkjaer
,
Jannick Damgaard
, and
Emmanuel O. Kumah
This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6). Based on publicly available Danish data, we test the three methods that are generally applicable and find that the choice of valuation method and estimation technique can have a highly significant impact on the international investment position, pointing to the need for further harmonization. The results show that the price-to-book value method generates more robust market value estimates than the price-to-earnings method. This finding suggests that the valuation basis for the forthcoming Coordinated Direct Investment Survey - own funds at book value -will provide useful information for compiling the international investment position.
Keywords:
WP; accounting data; earnings before interest and taxes; risk premium; valuation model
Cover IMF Working Papers
International Stock Returns and Market Integration: A Regional Perspective
Mr. Marco Del Negro
and
Mr. Robin Brooks
We investigate the relative importance of country and industry effects in international stock returns, with the innovation that we decompose country effects into region and within-region country effects. We divide the global stock market into the Americas, Asia, and Europe and find that most of the variation explained by country effects is actually due to region effects. Over time, these region effects have fallen. Within regions, however, only in Europe has segmentation declined, while it has increased elsewhere. Europe is also the only region where industry effects are now robustly more important than country effects.
Keywords:
WP; TMT firm; U.S. dollar; mean absolute deviations; dummy variable; stock portfolio; Diversification; risk; international financial markets; industrial structure; region effect; portfolio manager; Stock markets; Stocks; Market capitalization; Capital account; North American Free Trade Agreement; Europe; Global; Asia and Pacific; Western Europe; Southeast Asia
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Price Volatility and Financial Instability
Mr. Gene L. Leon
and
Mr. Rupert D Worrell
Statistical measures of the volatility of exchange rates, interest rates, and stock prices are estimated for a number of countries. Periods of high volatility are identified and compared with periods of financial difficulty. The results indicate that GARCH models of volatility could be potentially useful in assessing financial soundness. Daily data are more revealing, but monthly series allow comparisons among many countries. Country specific models may be needed for more reliable inference.
Keywords:
WP; exchange rate; interest rate; volatility; financial instability; GARCH models; interest rate volatility; price instability; interest rate estimate; exchange rate volatility; behavior exchange rates; volatility overlap; Exchange rates; Asset prices; Stock markets; Capital markets; Africa
Cover 1993 World Economic and Financial Surveys
1993 World Economic and Financial Surveys
International Capital Markets: Part II
International Monetary Fund

Abstract

This paper discusses systematic issues in international finance explained in the International Capital Markets report. The paper describes that the nature and extent of recent banking problems in several industrial countries along with the policy responses to those problems. It is observed that balance sheet problems in banking are widespread among the major industrial countries. The paper also analyses recent activity in the European currency unit bond and exchange markets, and reviews developments in the private financing of developing countries and discusses several issues raised by the recent experience, including the broadening of the investor base for developing country securities, the special role played by regional financial centers in East and Southeast Asia, and the systemic implications of the evolving pattern of developing country financing. A key influence on international capital movements in recent years was the rising international diversification of investment portfolios, which is generally believed to have increased in response to the liberalization of exchange and capital controls in many industrial countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

Keywords:
WEFS; Annex II reviews trend; x index; over-the-counter derivative market; U.S. dollar; capital market issue; Stock markets; Stocks; Futures; Loans; Securities; Global; Western Hemisphere; Africa; Asia and Pacific; Middle East; bank assets; ECU securities; Commercial banks; Market risk; Credit risk; Caribbean; East Asia