Volume/Issue: 2011/133
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2011
ISBN: 9781455259380
This paper examines how durable goods and financial frictions shape the business cycle of a small open economy subject to shocks to trend and transitory shocks. In the data, nondurable consumption is not as volatil...
Volume/Issue: 2011/8
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s):
Jonathan Ostry
, and
Andrew Berg
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
April
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463926564.006
ISBN: 9781463926564
This note raises the IMF’s profile on a number of issues related to inequality, unemployment, governance, etc. It builds on earlier empirical work that examined correlations between growth downbreaks/duratio...
Volume/Issue: 2003/30
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Andrew Berg
, and
Anne Krueger
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
2003
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451844931.001
ISBN: 9781451844931
This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and...
Volume/Issue: 2011/133
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455259380.001
ISBN: 9781455259380
This paper examines how durable goods and financial frictions shape the business cycle of a small open economy subject to shocks to trend and transitory shocks. In the data, nondurable consumption is not as volatil...
Volume/Issue: 2011/8
Series: Staff Discussion Notes
Author(s):
Jonathan Ostry
, and
Andrew Berg
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
08
April
2011
ISBN: 9781463926564
This note raises the IMF’s profile on a number of issues related to inequality, unemployment, governance, etc. It builds on earlier empirical work that examined correlations between growth downbreaks/duratio...
Volume/Issue: 2003/30
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Andrew Berg
, and
Anne Krueger
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
2003
ISBN: 9781451844931
This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and...