Volume/Issue: 2007/161
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Stanley Watt
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
July
2007
ISBN: 9781451867251
In weak intellectual property rights (IPR) environments, the imitation of proprietary technology by domestic firms has become a deterrent for foreign investment. Different multinationals may view this deterrent dif...
Volume/Issue: 2007/161
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Stanley Watt
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
July
2007
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451867251.001
ISBN: 9781451867251
In weak intellectual property rights (IPR) environments, the imitation of proprietary technology by domestic firms has become a deterrent for foreign investment. Different multinationals may view this deterrent dif...
Volume/Issue: 2011/267
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Issouf Samaké
, and
Yongzheng Yang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463924669.001
ISBN: 9781463924669
Trade and financial ties between low-income countries (LICs) and Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) have expanded rapidly in recent years. This gives rise to the potential for growth to spill over from the la...
Volume/Issue: 2012/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Tao Wu
, and
Michele Cavallo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463931810.001
ISBN: 9781463931810
We study the effects of oil-price shocks on the U.S. economy combining narrative and quantitative approaches. After examining daily oil-related events since 1984, we classify them into various event types. We then...
Volume/Issue: 2010/152
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Francis Vitek
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2010
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455201358.001
ISBN: 9781455201358
This paper develops a panel unobserved components model of the monetary transmission mechanism in the world economy, disaggregated into twenty national economies along the lines of the Group of Twenty. This structu...
Volume/Issue: 2009/238
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Francis Vitek
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
October
2009
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451873856.001
ISBN: 9781451873856
This paper develops a panel unobserved components model of the monetary transmission mechanism in the world economy, disaggregated into its fifteen largest national economies. This structural macroeconometric model...
Volume/Issue: 2012/149
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Francis Vitek
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475504187.001
ISBN: 9781475504187
This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a...
Volume/Issue: 2008/146
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Andrei Levchenko
, and
Julian Di Giovanni
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
June
2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451870046.001
ISBN: 9781451870046
This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, se...
Volume/Issue: 2012/43
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Fei Han
, and
Selim Elekdag
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781463936440.001
ISBN: 9781463936440
This paper seeks to uncover the main drivers of credit growth in emerging Asia using a multi-country structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. Taking a novel approach, we developed a two-block SVAR whereby sho...
Volume/Issue: 2011/267
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Issouf Samaké
, and
Yongzheng Yang
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2011
ISBN: 9781463924669
Trade and financial ties between low-income countries (LICs) and Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) have expanded rapidly in recent years. This gives rise to the potential for growth to spill over from the la...