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    Monetary Policy and Leading Indicators of Inflation in Sweden

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    This paper derives a set of leading indicators of inflation for Sweden. It also discusses developments that led to the adoption of the inflation-targeting framework and the changes in the operational procedures for conducting monetary policy that were necessitated by the shift to inflation targeting. Nonstructural vector autoregressions are used for estimating the leading indicators of inflation.
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    A Primer on the IMF's Information Notice System

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    The International Monetary Fund's Information Notice System (INS) came into existence in 1983 to facilitate surveillance over the exchange rate policy of Fund members, as dictated in the IMF.s Articles of Agreement. Under the INS, real and nominal effective exchange rate series are computed for almost all Fund members.
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    Long - Horizon Exchange Rate Predictability?

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    The importance to applied economists of having statistical tools that can reliably test for the presence of long-run predictability in time-series data can hardly be overstated. One such technique has gained prominence because of its apparent success in uncovering long-run relationships in international financial data.
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    Characteristics of the Euro, the Demand for Reserves, and Policy Coordination Under EMU

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    The euro.s economic base, as measured by the combined GDP of the currency area, will rival that of the dollar. Despite a monetary policy oriented toward price stability and backed by restrictive fiscal policies, the euro will face considerable initial uncertainties.
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    Explaining Consumption - A Simple Test of Alternative Hypotheses

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    As might be expected from an activity that comprises well over half of aggregate economic spending, the behavior of private consumption remains one of the most important areas of economic research.
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    The GATS Agreement on Financial Services - A Modest Start to Multilateral Liberalization

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    This paper analyzes the links between multilateral and unilateral financial sector liberalization. The rules in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and related negotiations in financial services in 1995 were a first attempt at multilateral liberalization of the financial sector.
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    Fiji and the sugar protocol

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1997
    The [EU/ACP/Lome] sugar Protocol has contributed enormously to Fiji's social and economic development. By providing price stability and market access, it has helped sustain productivity improvements in the sugar industry and provided the main source of income for almost a quarter of the country's economically active population.
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    OECD Statistics Portal

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
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    Reactions on the Green Paper on Relations between the European Union and the ACP Countries on the Eve of the 21st Century

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999
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    Commentary on the Green Paper on Relations between the European Union and the ACP Countries

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

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