IMF Staff Papers

IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1

Author/Editor:

International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publication Date:

April 18, 2005

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss: whether output recovered after the Asian crisis; the value of a country's trading partners to its own economic growth; whether interdependence is a factor in understanding the spread of currency crises; can remittance payments from expatriates be a reliable source of capital for economic development?; total factor productivity; designing a VAT for the energy trade in Russia and Ukraine; and lastly, a discussion of the reasons for central bank intervention in ERM-I since 1993

Series:

IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1

Subject:

Approximation theory Capital movements Cost of capital Devaluation of currency Double taxation Econometric models Economic growth Emigrant remittances Exchange rate policy Financial contagion Financial crises Gross domestic product Income accounting International trade Moral hazard National income Natural gas. Export-import trade Panel analysis Private sector Staff papers Total factor productivity

Notes:

Issues from 1998 onward are available for free online