Atish R. Ghosh

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department

Senior Economist

700 19th St. NW

Washington, DC 20431

United States

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Scholarly Papers (42)

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Citation 15

Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Matter?

NBER Working Paper No. w5874
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2022
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Georgetown University and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
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Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Matter?

IMF Working Paper No. 95/121
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh, Anne-Marie Gulde and Jonathan D. Ostry
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Georgetown University
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Inflation, Disinflation, and Growth

IMF Working Paper No. 98/68
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Steven Phillips
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Western Hemisphere Department
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inflation, growth determinants, growth regressions, robustness

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Managing Financial Crises The Experience in East Asia

IMF Working Paper No. 00/107
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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East Asian financial crisis IMF

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The Interest Rate-Exchange Rate Nexus in the Asian Crisis Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 00/19
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Jan 2006
Gabriela Basurto and Atish R. Ghosh
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Asia currency crisis, exchange rates, interest rates

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Managing the Tide: How Do Emerging Markets Respond to Capital Flows?

IMF Working Paper No. 17/69
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 May 2017
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, Georgetown University and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Central banks and their policies, capital flows; policy toolkit; capital controls; emerging market economies, capital flows, policy toolkit, capital controls, emerging market economies

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Inflation in Transition Economies: How Much? And Why?

IMF Working Paper No. 97/80
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Transition Economies, Inflation, Growth

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Currency Boards: The Ultimate Fix?

IMF Working Paper No. 98/8
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Anne-Marie Gulde
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Currency Boards, Fixed Exchange Rates, Inflation, Growth

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Export Instability and the External Balance in Developing Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 94/8
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Jonathan D. Ostry
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University
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Capital Inflow Surges and Consequences

ADBI Working Paper 585
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Sep 2016
Atish R. Ghosh and Mahvash Saeed Qureshi
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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capital flow, emerging markets, macroeconomics, economic overheating, credit expansion, currency, overvaluation, domestic credit, bank leverage, foreign currency, lending, FDI, foreign direct investment, investment, financial stability, asset flow, liability flow, portfolio debt

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East Asia in the Aftermath: Was There a Crunch?

IMF Working Paper No. 99/38
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Feb 2006
Swati Ghosh and Atish R. Ghosh
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Credit crunch, East Asia Currency Crises

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Imperfect Exchange Rate Passthrough: Strategic Pricing and Menu Costs

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 May 2001
Holger C. Wolf and Atish R. Ghosh
Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Exchange Rate Regimes and External Adjustment: New Answers to an Old Debate

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ALEXANDER SWOBODA, C. Wyplosz, ed., Routledge, March 2010
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Dec 2011
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bruegel
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Flexible exchange rates, Fixed exchange rates, Current Account Balances, Current Account Reversals

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Precautionary Savings and the Current Account

IMF Working Paper No. 92/72
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Jonathan D. Ostry
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University
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Are Capital Inflows Expansionary or Contractionary? Theory, Policy Implications, and Some Evidence

IMF Working Paper No. 15/226
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Jan 2016
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Georgetown University, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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capital inflows, bonds, bond, return, domestic bonds, All Countries, apital inflows

Are Capital Inflows Expansionary or Contractionary? Theory, Policy Implications, and Some Evidence

Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 15-17
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2018
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Georgetown University, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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capital inflows, capital controls, foreign exchange intervention

Are Capital Inflows Expansionary or Contractionary? Theory, Policy Implications, and Some Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w21619
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Georgetown University, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Are Capital Inflows Expansionary or Contractionary? Theory, Policy Implications, and Some Evidence

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10909
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Oct 2015
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University
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capital controls, capital inflows, foreign exchange intervention

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Do Capital Flows Reflect Economic Fundamentals in Developing Countries?

IMF Working Paper No. 93/34
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Jonathan D. Ostry
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University
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Structural Vulnerabilities and Currency Crises

IMF Working Paper No. 02/9
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Jan 2006
Swati Ghosh and Atish R. Ghosh
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Currency crises, structural indicators, corporate governance, binary recursive trees

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Capital Inflows: The Role of Controls (Entradas de Capital: El Papel de los Controles) (Spanish)

Revista de Economía Institucional, Vol. 12, No. 23, p. 135, 2010
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Dec 2010
Georgetown University, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Bank of England
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Capital Inflows, Capital Controls, Financial Crisis

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Exchange Rate Management and Crisis Susceptibility: A Reassessment

IMF Working Paper No. 14/11
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Feb 2014
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, Georgetown University and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Exchange rate regimes, Emerging markets, Currency pegs, Floating exchange rates, Economic models, Time series, crisis, vulnerabilities, real exchange rate, flexible exchange rate, intermediate exchange rate, exchange rate flexibility, intermediate exchange rate regimes, flexible exchange rate regimes, nominal exchange rate, exchange rate overvaluation, real exchange rate overvaluation, flexible exchange rates, exchange rate arrangements, current account balance, overvalued exchange rates, effective exchange rate, exchange rate regime classification, exchange rate guarantee, exchange rate volatility, fixed exchange rates, currency basket, nominal effective exchange rate, real effective exchan

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Shifting Motives: Explaining the Buildup in Official Reserves in Emerging Markets Since the 1980s

IMF Working Paper No. NO.12/34
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Feb 2012
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University
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International Reserves, Precautionary Demand, Mercantilism, Quantile Regression, Economic Models, Emerging Markets, Exchange Rate Regimes, External Shocks, Reserves Accumulation, Risk Management

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Foreign Borrowing and Export Promotion Policies

IMF Working Paper No. 89/16
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Eduardo Borensztein and Atish R. Ghosh
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Surges

IMF Working Paper No. NO.12/22
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Feb 2012
World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Surges, Capital Flows, Emerging Market Economies, Developing Countries, Economic Models

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International Policy Coordination in a World with Model Uncertainty

IMF Working Paper No. 87/81
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Paul R. Masson
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Regulating Capital Flows at Both Ends: Does it Work?

IMF Working Paper No. 14/188
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Nov 2014
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and World Bank
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Capital flows, Capital account, Cross-border banking, Spillovers, Capital inflows, Capital controls, cross-boder bank flows, prudential measures, bond, capital outflows, capital movements, capital account restrictions, financial sector, current account balance, border capital flows, liberalization of capital, stock market capitalization, international capital flows, financial institutions, debt securities, liberalization of capital movements, capital transaction, management of capital flows, capital transactions, purchase of securities, risk aversion, short-term capital, money market, determinants of capital flows, hedge, sale of securities, currency overvaluation, capital account policies,

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Fiscal Fatigue, Fiscal Space and Debt Sustainability in Advanced Economies

NBER Working Paper No. w16782
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 11 May 2023
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Georgetown University and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Model Uncertainty, Learning, and the Gains from Coordination

IMF Working Paper No. 88/114
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh and Paul R. Masson
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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The Output-Inflation Nexus in Ukraine: Is There a Trade-Off?

IMF Working Paper No. 96/46
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Atish R. Ghosh
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Words vs. Deeds: What Really Matters?

IMF Working Paper No. 11/112
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 May 2011
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Currency pegs, Developing countries, Economic models, Emerging markets, Exchange rate regimes, Floating exchange rates, Inflation, Monetary policy

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Modeling Aggregate Use of Fund Resources - Analytical Approaches and Medium-Term Projections

IMF Working Paper No. 07/70
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Apr 2007
World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department
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Stand-by arrangements, prediction, IMF lending capacity, IMF income position

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The Motives to Borrow

IMF Working Paper No. 19/101
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Jun 2019
INSEAD, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) - Department of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Domestic debt, Economic growth, Economic recovery, Real interest rates, Domestic currency debt, Sovereign Debt, Political Economy, Fiscal Policy, Growth, debt-to-GDP ratio, debt-to-GDP, countercyclical, Rogoff, debt accumulation

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FX Intervention in the New Keynesian Model

IMF Working Paper No. 17/207
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Oct 2017
Zineddine Alla, Raphael A. Espinoza and Atish R. Ghosh
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Foreign exchange, Central banks and their policies, Central bank reserves; Speculative attack; Portfolio balance model; Equilibrium determinacy; Capital flows; Capital controls; Open Economy New Keynesian Model, Central bank reserves, Speculative attack, Portfolio balance model, Equilibrium determinacy, Capital flows, Capital controls, Open Economy New Keynesian Model, Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects)

How Many Monies? A Genetic Approach to Finding Optimum Currency Areas

NBER Working Paper No. w4805
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2022
Atish R. Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
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How Many Monies? A Genetic Approach to Finding Optimum Currency Areas

IB-94-12
Posted: 22 Aug 1998
Atish R. Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)

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Unconventional Policy Instruments in the New Keynesian Model

IMF Working Paper No. 16/58
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Apr 2016
Zineddine Alla, Raphael A. Espinoza and Atish R. Ghosh
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department
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Unconventional monetary policy, equilibrium indeterminacy, stabilization bias, inflationary bias, instrument, instruments, inflation, monetary policy, interest, Monetary Policy (Targets, and Effects), All Countries,

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What's in a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls

IMF Working Paper No. 16/25
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Mar 2016
Atish R. Ghosh and Mahvash Saeed Qureshi
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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gold standard, interwar period, Bretton Woods, financial crisis, markets, market, emerging markets, All Countries,

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Managing Capital Inflows: The Role of Capital Controls and Prudential Policies

NBER Working Paper No. w17363
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2022
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, Georgetown University, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Pricing in International Markets: Lessons from the Economist

NBER Working Paper No. w4806
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2022
Atish R. Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
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Pricing in International Markets: Lessons from the Economist

IB-94-ll
Posted: 22 Aug 1998
Atish R. Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)

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Friedman Redux: External Adjustment and Exchange Rate Flexibility

IMF Working Paper No. 14/146
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Sep 2014
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Flexible exchange rates, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate regimes, Balance of trade, Current account balances, external dynamics, global imbalances, exchange rate, exchange rate regime, bilateral exchange rate, exchange rate flexibility, exchange rates, fixed exchange rate, real exchange rate, nominal exchange rate, exchange rate regime classifications, exchange rate regime classification, exchange rate volatility, bilateral real exchange rate, fixed exchange rates, current account balance, fixed exchange rate regime, exchange rate movement, fixed exchange rate regimes, intermediate exchange rate, real exchange rate volatility, flexible exchange rate, intermediate exchange rate regim

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Geographical and Sectoral Shocks in the U.S. Business Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w6180
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Atish R. Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
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Thresholds and Context Dependence in Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w6480
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Atish R. Ghosh and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)
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The Motives to Borrow

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13735
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 22 May 2019
INSEAD, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) - Department of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Fiscal policy, political economy, public debt

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IMF Policy Advice to Emerging Market Economies During the 2008-2009 Crisis: New Fund or New Fundamentals?

Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP), World Scientific, 2011
Posted: 22 Aug 2011
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Georgetown University and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

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Emerging market crises, IMF policy, IMF supported programs, global financial crisis

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Currency Boards: More than a Quick Fix?

Posted: 27 Nov 2000
Atish R. Ghosh, Anne-Marie Gulde and Holger C. Wolf
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS)

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Inflation in Transition Economies: How Much and Why?

IMF Working Paper No. 97/80
Posted: 03 Aug 1998
Atish R. Ghosh
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department

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