Summary: Although Europe in the aggregate is a not a major contributor to global current account imbalances, its trade and financial linkages with the rest of the world mean that...
Posted on: June 29, 2007Summary: Like the theory of the second best that the 2006 congress marks, the VAT is now fifty years old. Judged by the extent and speed of its spread around...
Posted on: June 29, 2007Summary: Regressions in a number of recent papers written by staff members of the World Bank and the IMF rely on an interaction variable (IAV) to establish the effects of...
Posted on: June 29, 2007Working Paper No. 07/140: Complex Ownership Structures and Corporate Summary: The bulk of corporate governance theory examines the agency problems that arise from two extreme ownership structures: 100 percent small shareholders...
Posted on: June 26, 2007IMF Working Paper No. 07/138: International Financial Integration Through Equity Markets: Which Firms from Which Countries Go Global? Claessens, Stijn ; Schmukler, Sergio L. This paper studies international financial integration analyzing firms from various...
Posted on: June 23, 2007IMF Survey -- June 18, 2007: IMF work agenda; IMF exchange rate advice; Asia's trade pacts; Central Asia: economic cooperation; Cameroon after debt relief; spread of Austrian banks; conference on...
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Posted on: June 4, 2007This paper explores international bond spillovers using daily and intra-day data on yields on inflation-indexed bonds and associated inflation expectations for the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, Japan, and...
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