Marcos Chamon

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1.

Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

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Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3191, Brookings Global Economy and Development Paper No. 31
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Dec 2007
Marcos Chamon and Eswar S. Prasad
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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China, China's economy, financial markets, savings rates, global economics, economic development

Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

IMF Working Paper No. 08/145
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Marcos Chamon and Eswar S. Prasad
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Working Paper, China, People's Republic of, Private savings, Income, Economic growth, Private consumption

Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

NBER Working Paper No. w14546
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2022
Marcos Chamon and Eswar S. Prasad
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies and the Credit-Investment Channel

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Apr 2020
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, UPNA and Keio University
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Sovereign Debt; Sovereign Defaults; Sovereign Debt Restructurings; GDP Growth; Investment; Banking Crisis; Local Projection

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Why Can't Developing Countries Borrow from Abroad in Their Currency?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Dec 2002
Marcos Chamon
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Financial Indexation, Dollarization, International risk sharing

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Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

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Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

IMF Working Paper No. 06/21
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Mar 2006
Marcos Chamon and Michael Kremer
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Population, growth, economic development, international trade

Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

NBER Working Paper No. w12038
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2022
Marcos Chamon and Michael Kremer
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

IMF Working Paper No. 10/289
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Feb 2011
Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar S. Prasad
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Aging, China, People's Republic of, Economic models, External shocks, Income distribution, Pension reforms, Private savings, Private sector, Wages

Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5331
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar S. Prasad
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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China, household savings, income uncertainty, pension reforms, buffer-stock savings

Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

NBER Working Paper No. w16565
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023
Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar S. Prasad
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Is There a Novelty Premium on New Financial Instruments? The Argentine Experience with GDP-Indexed Warrants

IMF Working Paper No. 08/109
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Jul 2008
Marcos Chamon, Alejo Costa and Luca A. Ricci
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, affiliation not provided to SSRN and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Working Paper, Financial instruments, Argentina, Bonds, Insurance, Economic models

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Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies and Financial Intermediation

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Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies and Financial Intermediation

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 May 2021
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, UPNA and Keio University
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Sovereign Debt; Sovereign Defaults; Sovereign Debt Restructurings; GDP Growth; Investment; Local Projection

Costs of Sovereign Defaults Restructuring Strategies and Financial Intermediation

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Jan 2023
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce and AKIRA SASAHARA
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, UPNA and Keio University
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Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Default, Debt Restructuring, GDP Growth, investment, Bank Intermediation

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

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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
Olivier J. Blanchard, Olivier J. Blanchard, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh and Marcos Chamon
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Peterson Institute for International Economics, 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

NBER Working Paper No. w21619
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2023
Olivier J. Blanchard, Olivier J. Blanchard, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh and Marcos Chamon
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Peterson Institute for International Economics, 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

Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 15-17
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2018
Olivier J. Blanchard, Olivier J. Blanchard, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh and Marcos Chamon
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Peterson Institute for International Economics, 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

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10909
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Oct 2015
Olivier J. Blanchard, Olivier J. Blanchard, Marcos Chamon, Atish R. Ghosh and Jonathan D. Ostry
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Peterson Institute for International Economics, 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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Trade Costs of Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Does a Market-Friendly Approach Improve the Outcome?

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Trade Costs of Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Does a Market-Friendly Approach Improve the Outcome?

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 21 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2016
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Keio University
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Sovereign Debt; Sovereign Defaults; Sovereign Debt Restructurings; Trade; Panel Regression; Local Projections

Trade Costs of Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Does a Market-Friendly Approach Improve the Outcome?

IMF Working Paper No. 16/222
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Jan 2017
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Keio University
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Sovereign debt defaults, Sovereign debt restructuring, External debt, Trade, Econometric models, Sovereign Debt; Sovereign Defaults; Sovereign Debt Restructurings; Trade; Panel Regression; Local Projections;

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Pricing Growth-Indexed Bonds

IMF Working Paper No. 05/216
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Mar 2006
Marcos Chamon and Paolo Mauro
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Emerging markets, GDP-indexed bonds, Monte-Carlo simulation

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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4658
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2009
Marcos Chamon, Joao De Mello and Sergio Firpo
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) - Department of Economics and Insper
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electoral systems, political competition, regression discontinuity, fiscal expenditures

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The Problem that Wasn’t: Coordination Failures in Sovereign Debt Restructurings

IMF Working Paper No. 11/265
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Dec 2011
Ran Bi, Marcos Chamon and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Bruegel
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Debt restructuring, Economic models, Emerging markets, Sovereign debt

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Intervention Under Inflation Targeting--When Could it Make Sense?

IMF Working Paper No. 20/9
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Feb 2020
David Hofman, Marcos Chamon, Pragyan Deb, Thomas Harjes, Umang Rawat and Itaru Yamamoto
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Central banks, Exchange rate policy, Central bank policy, Exchange markets, Central banking and monetary issues, emerging markets, monetary and exchange rate policies, inflation targeting, foreign exchange intervention, capital flows, WP, EME, inflation target, policy instrument, exchange rate, targeter

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Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies, Bank Distress and the Capital Inflow-Credit Channel

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Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies, Bank Distress and the Capital Inflow-Credit Channel

IMF Working Paper No. 19/69
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 25 Apr 2019
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, UPNA and Keio University
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Sovereign debt restructuring, Business cycles, Capital inflows, Domestic debt, Current account deficits, Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Defaults, Sovereign Debt Restructurings, GDP Growth, Investment, Banking Crisis, Local Projection, debt restructure, bank crisis, restructure, haircut, inflow

Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies, Bank Distress and the Capital Inflow-Credit Channel

European Stability Mechanism Working Paper No. 37
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 15 Nov 2019
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, UPNA and Keio University
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sovereign debt; sovereign defaults; sovereign debt restructurings; GDP growth; investment; banking crisis; local projection

Costs of Sovereign Defaults: Restructuring Strategies, Bank Distress and the Capital Inflow-Credit Channel

European Stability Mechanism Working Paper Series 37/2019; ISBN 978-92-95085-68-8
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 19 Sep 2019
Tamon Asonuma, Marcos Chamon, Aitor Erce and Akira Sasahara
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Strategy Policy and Review Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, UPNA and Keio University
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Sovereign Defaults; Sovereign Debt Restructurings; GDP Growth; Investment; Banking Crisis; Local Projection

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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
Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Karl Habermeier, Marcos Chamon, Mahvash Saeed Qureshi and Dennis Reinhardt
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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Are We Heading for Another Debt Crisis in Low-Income Countries? Debt Vulnerabilities: Today vs the Pre-HIPC Era

IMF Working Paper No. 2023/079
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Apr 2023
Chuku Chuku, Prateek Samal, Joyce Saito, Dalia Hakura, Marcos Chamon, Martin D. Cerisola, Guillaume Chabert and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bruegel
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Debt Vulnerabilities, Creditor Coordination, Debt Relief, Low-Income Countries, Debt Sustainability Analysis, HIPC, Debt Overhang, HIPC debt burden indicator, HIPC debt relief initiative, financing landscape, LICS financing Needs, debt vulnerability, MDRI debt relief, Debt burden, Debt sustainability, Debt service, Global

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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil

IMF Working Paper No. 06/275
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Jan 2007
Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Marcos Chamon
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Income, Brazil, Trade liberalization, Inflation, Economic stabilization, Economic reforms, Consumer price indexes

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Foreign-Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?

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Foreign-Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?

ECB Working Paper No. 2162
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Jun 2018
Marcos Chamon, Julian Schumacher and Christoph Trebesch
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, European Central Bank (ECB) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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Sovereign Debt, Creditor Rights, Seniority, Law and Finance

Foreign-Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 7137
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Aug 2018
Marcos Chamon, Julian Schumacher and Christoph Trebesch
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, European Central Bank (ECB) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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sovereign debt, creditor rights, seniority, law and finance

Foreign-Law Bonds: Can They Reduce Sovereign Borrowing Costs?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13020
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Jul 2018
Marcos Chamon, Julian Schumacher and Christoph Trebesch
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, European Central Bank (ECB) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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Sovereign Debt; Creditor Rights; Seniority; Law and Finance

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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico

IMF Working Paper No. 08/197
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Sep 2008
Marcos Chamon and Irineu de Carvalho Filho
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Brazil, Mexico, Data analysis, Economic reforms, Income, Private consumption, Consumer prices, Deflation, Economic models, Economic policy, Working Paper

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Country Insurance Using Financial Instruments

IMF Working Paper No. 11/169
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Jul 2011
Marcos Chamon, Y. Sophia Zhang and Luca Antonio Ricci
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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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
Mahvash Saeed Qureshi, Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh and Marcos Chamon
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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A Model to Assess the Probabilities of Growth, Fiscal, and Financial Crises

IMF Working Paper No. 17/282
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Mar 2018
Suman Sambha Basu, Marcos Chamon and Christopher Crowe
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Developed countries, Emerging markets, Financial crisis, Early warning systems, Financial crises, Sudden stops, Early warning model, crisis probability, growth crisis, fiscal crisis, sudden stop, Forecasting and Simulation, Forecasting and Simulation

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Consumption Based Estimates of Urban Chinese Growth

IMF Working Paper No. 13/265
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Jan 2014
Marcos Chamon and Irineu de Carvalho Filho
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Economic growth, China, Income distribution, Private sector, Economic models, Household consumption, Income growth, CPI Bias, consumption expenditures, labor income, household expenditure, household characteristics, household income, consumer price index, consumption based estimates, household expenditures, aggregate consumption, consumption patterns, consumption growth, consumption measures, consumption data, household consumption expenditures, relative price changes, price deflator, expenditure inequality, real per capita consumption, total consumption, expenditure distribution, household expenditure survey, income inequality, consumption inequality

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Can Debt Crises Be Self-Fulfilling?

IMF Working Paper No. 04/99
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Marcos Chamon
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Debt crises, multiple equilibria, liquidity, financial innovation

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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
Atish R. Ghosh, Christopher Crowe, Jun Il Kim, Jonathan D. Ostry and Marcos Chamon
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