## IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 1

_IMF Staff Papers, June 18, 2008_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: June 18, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Papers
- Volume: 55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067226.024

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### Overview of issue
- 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

### Main contributions and research questions
- 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).

### Substantive themes and focus areas
- Asset valuation
- Credit and Credit risk
- Export prices
- Financial regulation and supervision
- Financial statements
- Money and Prices
- Public debt
- Public financial management (PFM)

### Keywords and geographic scope
- 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.

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*Source: 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*

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