Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues

IMF Staff Country Reports, May 16, 2016

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• Published: May 16, 2016
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475556070.002

Overview

• Focus areas: export competitiveness, corporate financial health and investment, European Central Bank (ECB) quantitative easing, and financial sector development issues and prospects.
• Context: Slovenia’s exports have been the main contributor to GDP growth in recent years.
• Monetary environment: The past few years have witnessed substantial monetary easing by the ECB; with inflation running well below target, the ECB has been pursuing unconventional monetary policy-easing actions.

Key findings

• Exports:
  • By 2015 exports of goods and services had increased by 20 percentage points of GDP compared to their postcrisis low in 2009.
  • Slovenia’s export competitiveness is identified as a central driver of recent GDP growth.
• Corporate sector and investment:
  • Preceding the global economic slump in 2008, bank credit in Slovenia fueled corporate investment.
  • Corporate financial health and investment dynamics are core issues examined.
• Monetary policy and ECB actions:
  • The ECB engaged in substantial monetary easing in the years prior to publication.
  • Unconventional monetary policy-easing actions were pursued in response to inflation running well below target.
• Financial sector development:
  • Financial sector development issues and prospects are analyzed as part of broader macrofinancial assessment.

Subjects and keywords (as provided)

• Subjects: Debt burden, Export performance, Exports, External debt, Financial markets, Financial sector development, Fiscal policy, International trade, Monetary policy, Unconventional monetary policies.
• Keywords: assets threshold, CR, Debt burden, ECB quantitative easing, export, Exports, exports of transport equipment, Financial sector development, GDP, Global, investment decision, investment relationship, ISCR, QE period, QE trend, quantitative easing, Slovenia, transport equipment export, Unconventional monetary policies.

Publication metadata (selected figures from source)

• Pages: 70
• Volume: 2016
• Issue: 122
• Series: Country Report No. 2016/122
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475556070.002
• Stock No: 1SVNEA2016003
• ISBN: 9781475556070
• ISSN: 1934-7685

International Monetary Fund. Republic of Slovenia: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Reports 2016, 122).

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