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  "title": "IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 1",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Papers, June 18, 2008",
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  "summary": "In this issue, a team of economists look at approaches to modeling the use of IMF resources in order to gauge whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or permanent phenomenon.",
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      "heading": "Overview of issue",
      "content": "- Publication date: June 18, 2008\n- Volume: 2008\n- Issue: 003\n- Series: IMF Staff Papers No. 2008/003\n- Pages: 220\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024\n- Stock No: SPIEA2008001\n- ISBN: 9781589067226\n- ISSN: 1020-7635"
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      "heading": "Main contributions and research questions",
      "content": "- Modeling IMF resource use to assess whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or permanent phenomenon.\n- Firm growth drivers, with emphasis on informality and regulations (Era Dabla-Norris and Gabriela Inchauste).\n- Probabilistic sustainability of public debt in Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey using a vector autoregression approach (Evan Tanner and Issouf Samake).\n- Does transparency pay?—whether the frequency and accuracy of macroeconomic information released to the public lead to lower borrowing costs in sovereign debt markets (Rachel Glennerster and Yongseok Shin)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Substantive themes and focus areas",
      "content": "- Asset valuation\n- Credit and Credit risk\n- Export prices\n- Financial regulation and supervision\n- Financial statements\n- Money and Prices\n- Public debt\n- Public financial management (PFM)"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Keywords and geographic scope",
      "content": "- Keywords: Africa, article IV report, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Credit, Credit risk, debt ratio, Europe, export price, Export prices, Financial statements, firm growth, Global, informal firm, price, SP, wage bill\n- Geographic focus includes Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Europe, and Global considerations."
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      "heading": "Access and formats",
      "content": "- Download PDF and more formats available on IMF eLibrary.\n- Order a print copy option available.\n- Citation example provided in Chicago format: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. \"IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 1\", IMF Staff Papers 2008, 003 (2008), accessed 9/20/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024\n\nSource: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 1 (June 18, 2008), IMF Staff Papers No. 2008/003, Stock No: SPIEA2008001, ISBN: 9781589067226, ISSN: 1020-7635, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/imf-staff-papers/issues/2016/12/31/imf-staff-papers-volume-55-no-21711"
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    "Published: June 18, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Staff Papers",
    "Volume: 55",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024",
    "Publication date: June 18, 2008",
    "Volume: 2008",
    "Issue: 003",
    "Series: IMF Staff Papers No. 2008/003",
    "Pages: 220",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024",
    "Stock No: SPIEA2008001",
    "ISBN: 9781589067226",
    "ISSN: 1020-7635",
    "Modeling IMF resource use to assess whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or permanent phenomenon.",
    "Firm growth drivers, with emphasis on informality and regulations (Era Dabla-Norris and Gabriela Inchauste).",
    "Probabilistic sustainability of public debt in Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey using a vector autoregression approach (Evan Tanner and Issouf Samake).",
    "Does transparency pay?—whether the frequency and accuracy of macroeconomic information released to the public lead to lower borrowing costs in sovereign debt markets (Rachel Glennerster and Yongseok Shin).",
    "Asset valuation",
    "Credit and Credit risk",
    "Export prices",
    "Financial regulation and supervision",
    "Financial statements",
    "Money and Prices",
    "Public debt",
    "Public financial management (PFM)",
    "Keywords: Africa, article IV report, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Credit, Credit risk, debt ratio, Europe, export price, Export prices, Financial statements, firm growth, Global, informal firm, price, SP, wage bill",
    "Geographic focus includes Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Europe, and Global considerations.",
    "Download PDF and more formats available on IMF eLibrary.",
    "Order a print copy option available.",
    "Citation example provided in Chicago format: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. \"IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 1\", IMF Staff Papers 2008, 003 (2008), accessed 9/20/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024"
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