A Model for Financial Programming

Author/Editor:

Jan Giehm Mikkelsen

Publication Date:

June 1, 1998

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper presents a simple simulation model that enables the formulation of a consistent growth-oriented, medium-term adjustment program. The applied version is available in Excel (using data for El Salvador) and can be used directly as a financial programming tool that provides a range of standard IMF performance criteria together with a complete set of consistent accounts for the real, monetary, public, and external sectors of the economy. Medium- and long-term growth considerations are incorporated through a neoclassical production function at the same time as monetary and fiscal policies are adjusted to satisfy the requirements for internal and external balance.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1998/080

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

June 1, 1998

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451850277/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0801998

Pages:

31

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