Prakash Loungani

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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1.

Was China the First Domino?: Assessing Links between China and the Rest of Emerging Asia

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 604
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Jun 1998
John G. Fernald, Hali J. Edison and Prakash Loungani
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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New Evidence on Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment

IMF Working Paper No. 11/106
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 May 2011
Jinzhu Chen, Prakash Kannan, Bharat Trehan and Prakash Loungani
affiliation not provided to SSRN, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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The Differential Impact of Uncertainty on Investment in Small and Large Businesses

Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 82, No. 2, 2000
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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uncertainty, investment, irreversibility, sunk costs, financing constraints, small businesses

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Sources of Inflation in Developing Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 01/198
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Feb 2006
Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Inflation, developing countries, exchange rate regimes

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Flying Geese or Sitting Ducks: China's Impact on the Trading Fortunes of Other Asian Economies

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 887
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Feb 2007
Alan G. Ahearne, John G. Fernald, Prakash Loungani and John W. Schindler
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) - Department of Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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exports, trade links, exchange rates, trade equations

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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment: Evidence from China

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Apr 2014
Yi Huang, Prakash Loungani and Gewei Wang
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
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China, employment, minimum wages, heterogeneous effect

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Global Housing Cycles

IMF Working Paper No. 12/217
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Nov 2012
Deniz Igan and Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Financial Studies Division and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Housing Cycles, Mortgage Markets, Developed Countries, Emerging Markets, Financial Systems, Housing Prices

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China and Emerging Asia: Comrades or Competitors?

FRB International Working Paper No. 789, FRB Chicago Working Paper No. 2003-27
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jan 2004
John G. Fernald, Prakash Loungani, Alan G. Ahearne and John W. Schindler
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, International Monetary Fund (IMF), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) - Department of Economics and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Exports, trade links, exchange rates, trade equations, flying geese

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Out of the Ballpark: The Global Recession of 2007-08 in Historical Context

Finance & Development, June 2009
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 09 Dec 2009
Prakash Loungani, M. Ayhan Kose and Marco E. Terrones
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Development Prospects Group at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Housing Prices: More Room to Fall?

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Dec 2010
Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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House Prices, Housing Markets, Bubbles, Real Estate

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Measuring Energy Security: Trends in the Diversification of Oil and Natural Gas Supplies

IMF Working Paper No. 11/39
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Feb 2011
Frederick Joutz, Gail Cohen and Prakash Loungani
George Washington University, The National Academies - National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Consumption, Cross country analysis, Energy sector, Exports, Imports, Natural gas, OECD, Oil, Risk management, Supply elasticity

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How Accurate are Private Sector Forecasts? Cross-Country Evidence from Consensus Forecasts of Output Growth

IMF Working Paper No. 00/77
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Jun 2000
Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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The East Asian Crisis: Macroeconomic Developments and Policy Lessons

IMF Working Paper No. 98/128
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Kalpana Kochhar, Prakash Loungani and Mark Stone
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Asian crisis, interest rates and exchange rates, financial sector restructuring

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The Tragedy of Unemployment

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Mai Dao and Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Unemployment, Cyclical vs. Structural, Recession, Human Cost

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The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation

IMF Working Paper No. 13/151
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Jul 2013
Laurence Ball, Davide Furceri, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Fiscal consolidation, OECD, Developed countries, Income distribution, Cross country analysis, fiscal consolidation, distributional effects, income inequality, fiscal consolidation episodes, fiscal consolidations, fiscal adjustments, public debt, fiscal policy, fiscal adjustment, fiscal measures, tax revenue, spending cuts, fiscal actions, fiscal balances, fiscal positions, fiscal variables, fiscal plans, fiscal tightening, government spending, tax revenues, taxation, tax policy, budget deficit, public expenditures, fiscal expansions, fiscal stimulus, tax rates

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The Human Cost of Recessions: Assessing It, Reducing It

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Nov 2010
Prakash Loungani and Mai Dao
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Painful Medicine

Finance & Development, September 2011
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Sep 2011
Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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fiscal consolidation, fiscal austerity, unemployment, jobs, wages

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Asian Financial Integration: Trends and Interruptions

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Asian Financial Integration: Trends and Interruptions

IMF Working Paper No. 11/4
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jan 2011
Prakash Loungani and Eduardo Borensztein
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
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Asian Financial Integration: Trends and Interruptions

IMF Working Paper No. 11/4
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Feb 2011
Eduardo Borensztein and Prakash Loungani
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Asia, Bond markets, Cross country analysis, Economic integration, Financial crisis, Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009, Investment

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World Trade in Services: Evidence from a New Dataset

IMF Working Paper No. 17/77
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 May 2017
Prakash Loungani, Saurabh Mishra, Chris Papageorgiou and Ke Wang
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Economic growth, Globalization, Trade in services, sector-level data, technology, Country and Industry Studies of Trade, Economic Growth of Open Economies, General, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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Okun's Law: Fit at 50?

IMF Working Paper No. 13/10
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Feb 2013
Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Cross country analysis, Developed countries, Economic fluctuations., Economic models, Labor markets, Okun's law, Unemployment, Unemploymnent, United States

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Regional Labor Fluctuations: Oil Shocks, Military Spending, and Other Driving Forces

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System International Finance Disc. Papers #578
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Apr 1997 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2014
Steven J. Davis, Prakash Loungani and Ramamohan Mahidhara
University of Chicago, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Amoco Corporation
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Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality

IMF Working Paper No. 15/243
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Feb 2016
Davide Furceri and Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Inequality, Capital Account Openness, Crises, Institutions, capital account, liberalization, capital account liberalization, standard deviations, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, All Countries, Institutions.,

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Testing the Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis Since 1650: Evidence from Panel Techniques that Allow for Multiple Breaks

IMF Working Paper No. 13/180
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Sep 2013
Rabah Arezki, Kaddour Hadri, Prakash Loungani and Yao Rao
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Queen's University Belfast, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The University of Liverpool
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Commodity prices, Commodity price fluctuations, Economic models, Primary commodities, Unit root tests, Multiple Structural breaks, Volatility., commodity markets, transport costs, exchange rate regimes, terms of trade, speculative capital, competitive markets

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Economic Forecasts: Hard to Rely on?

Finance & Development, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2008, World Economics, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1-12, 2008
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 06 Dec 2009
Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

IMF Working Paper No. 00/87
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 Jan 2006
Prakash Loungani, Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance
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Output-inflation tradeoff, capital mobility, capital controls, openness

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Globalization and Disinflation: The Efficiency Channel

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Globalization and Disinflation: The Efficiency Channel

HKIMR Working Paper No. 10/2005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Assaf Razin and Prakash Loungani
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Globalization and Disinflation: The Efficiency Channel

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4895
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 May 2005
Prakash Loungani and Assaf Razin
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
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Trade openness, capital-account openness, utility-based loss function

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Slow Recovery to Nowhere? A Sectoral View of Labor Markets in Advanced Economies

World Economic Outlook, September 2011
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 24 Dec 2011
Prakash Loungani, Su Wang, Laura Feiveson and João Tovar Jalles
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Department of Economics, M.I.T., Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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employment, productivity, middle-income jobs, inequality

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The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Inequality

IMF Working Paper No. 16/245
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani and Aleksandra Zdzienicka
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Monetary policy, Income inequality, Developed countries, Emerging markets, Panel analysis, Time series, monetary policy; monetary policy shocks; income inequality.

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Information Rigidity in Growth Forecasts: Some Cross-Country Evidence

IMF Working Paper No. 11/125
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jun 2011
Herman Stekler, Prakash Loungani and Natalia T. Tamirisa
affiliation not provided to SSRN, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Cross country analysis, Data analysis, Developed countries, Economic forecasting, Economic growth, Economic models, Economic recession, Emerging markets, Financial crisis

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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment: Evidence from China

IMF Working Paper No. 14/184
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Jun 2015
Yi Huang, Prakash Loungani and Gewei Wang
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
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Minimum wages, China, Employment, Business enterprises, Labor demand, Labor supply, Wage policy, Econometric models, labor market, employee wages, wage adjustment, labor force, wage rate, unemployment, wage policies

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Minimum Wages and Firm Employment: Evidence from China

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Dec 2014
Yi Huang, Prakash Loungani and Gewei Wang
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
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China, Employment, Minimum Wages

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Okun's Law: Fit at Fifty?

NBER Working Paper No. w18668
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2013
Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Financial Globalization: Evidence from Macro and Sectoral Data

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The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Financial Globalization: Evidence from Macro and Sectoral Data

IMF Working Paper No. 18/83
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 May 2018
Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani and Jonathan D. Ostry
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Globalization, Inequality, Capital Account Openness, Crises, Institutions

The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Financial Globalization: Evidence from Macro and Sectoral Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14001
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Oct 2019
Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani and Jonathan D. Ostry
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Capital account openness, Globalization, inequality

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Global Food Prices and Domestic Inflation: Some Cross-Country Evidence

IMF Working Paper No. 15/133
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Jul 2015
Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, John A. Simon and Susan M. Wachter
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Reserve Bank of Australia - Economic Research and University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate
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Food prices, External shocks, Inflation, Developed countries, Emerging markets, Cross country analysis, pass-through, economies, food price inflation, advanced economies, monetary policy, money, consumption, inflation expectations, domestic inflation

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Rethinking Development Policy: Deindustrialization, Servicification and Structural Transformation

IMF Working Paper No. 18/223
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Oct 2018
Manoj Atolia, Prakash Loungani, Milton H. Marquis and Chris Papageorgiou
Florida State University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Florida State University - Department of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Africa, Development policies, structural transformation, premature deindustrialization, middle-income trap, push factors, growth diagnostics, Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development, General, Institutions and Growth

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Oil Prices and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from Advanced and Developing Economies

IMF Working Paper No. 17/196
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 14 Sep 2017
Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Saurabh Mishra and Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro
Yonsei University, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Monetary policy, JEL Classification Numbers: E31, E37, Q43 Keywords: oil price shocks, inflation pass-through, local projections, oil price shocks, Forecasting and Simulation, Energy and the Macroeconomy, Q43, Keywords: oil price shocks

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Labor Market Policies and IMF Advice in Advanced Economies During the Great Recession

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Oct 2013
Olivier J. Blanchard, Florence Jaumotte and Prakash Loungani
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Unemployment, labor market institutions, Great Recession

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Investing to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change: A Framework Model

IMF Working Paper No. 16/164
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Dec 2016
Tony Bonen, Prakash Loungani, Willi Semmler and Sebastian Koch
Labour Market Information Council (LMIC), International Monetary Fund (IMF), The New School - Department of Economics and Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Accounting and Auditing
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Climatic changes, Public investment, Government expenditures, Econometric models, Climate Change, Fiscal Policy, Public Capital, Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

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The Open Economy Phillips Curve: 'New Keynesian' Theory and Evidence

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 3582
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Dec 2002
Prakash Loungani, Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance
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Sacrifice ratios, Phillips curve, new Keynesian Phillips curve, strategic interactions among price setters, imperfect competition in the product market

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Aggregate Uncertainty and Sectoral Productivity Growth: The Role of Credit Constraints

IMF Working Paper No. 16/174
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Dec 2016
Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri, Yifei Huang and Prakash Loungani
Yonsei University, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - African Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Productivity, Industry, Economic growth, Manufacturing sector, Developed countries, Econometric models, Time series, productivity growth; financial dependence; uncertainty

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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States and Europe

IMF Working Paper No. 14/26
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Jul 2014
Mai Dao, Prakash Loungani and Davide Furceri
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Financial system stability assessment, Article IV consultation reports, Financial sector, Banks, Nonbank financial sector, Bank supervision, Basel Core Principles, Bank legislation, Bank soundness, Financial safety nets, Capital markets, Economic indicators, Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes, El Salvador, banking, capital adequacy, banking law, consolidated supervision, capital adequacy ratio, banking sector, banking system, deposit insurance, bank law, tier 1 capital, bank securities, macroeconomic stability, banking supervision, banking crisis, return on assets, settlement system, bank exposure, banking sector developments, monetary authority, return on equity, prudential re

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Globalization and Inflation-Output Tradeoffs

NBER Working Paper No. w11641
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2009
Assaf Razin and Prakash Loungani
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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There Will Be Growth in the Spring: How Credible are Forecasts of Recovery?

World Economics, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Dec 2009
Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States

IMF Working Paper No. 14/211
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 Dec 2014
Mai Dao, Davide Furceri and Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Labor markets, United States, Regional shocks, Labor demand, Unemployment, Labor mobility, Migrations, Regional economics, Interstate migration, regional labor markets, employment growth, labor force, job, worker, workers

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Decoupling of Emissions and GDP: Evidence from Aggregate and Provincial Chinese Data

IMF Working Paper No. 18/85
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 May 2018
Gail Cohen, João Tovar Jalles, Prakash Loungani, Ricardo Marto and Gewei Wang
The National Academies - National Academy of Sciences (NAS), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and University of Nottingham
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Greenhouse gas emissions, Gross domestic product, China, Emissions, Environmental Okun's Law, Kuznets Curve, China, Provinces

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How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions?

IMF Working Paper No. 18/39
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Aug 2019
Zidong An, João Tovar Jalles and Prakash Loungani
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Economic forecasting, Economic recession, Economic models, Economic growth, Business cycles, Production growth, Financial crises, recession, bias, efficiency, information rigidity, forecast comparison, recession year, current-year, forecast, forecaster, emerge economy

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Information Rigidities: Comparing Average and Individual Forecasts for a Large International Panel

IMF Working Paper No. 14/31
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Mar 2014
Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, Prakash Loungani and Natalia T. Tamirisa
Kiel Institute for the World Economy, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Economic forecasting, Economic growth, Developed countries, Emerging markets, Forecasting models, Rational inattention, aggregation bias, growth forecasts, information rigidity, forecast behaviour, emerging economies, econometrics, parameters, economic statistics, regression analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, dynamic models, panel regressions

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Information Rigidities in Economic Growth Forecasts: Evidence from a Large International Panel

IMF Working Paper No. 13/56
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Mar 2013
Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, Prakash Loungani and Natalia T. Tamirisa
Kiel Institute for the World Economy, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Can Reform Waves Turn the Tide? Some Case Studies Using the Synthetic Control Method

IMF Working Paper No. 16/171
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Dec 2016
Bibek Adhikari, Romain Duval, Bingjie Hu and Prakash Loungani
Illinois State University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Fiscal reforms, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Labor market reforms, Economic growth, Developed countries, Cross country analysis, Econometric models, structural reforms, synthetic control method,liberalization, labor and productivitymarket reforms, growth.

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Optimal Control of a Global Model of Climate Change with Adaptation and Mitigation

IMF Working Paper No. 18/270
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Jan 2019
Manoj Atolia, Prakash Loungani, Helmut Maurer and Willi Semmler
Florida State University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF), University of Muenster and The New School - Department of Economics
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Fiscal policy, Climate Change, Optimal Control, Environmental Economics, Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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How Should We Measure City Size? Theory and Evidence within and Across Rich and Poor Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 19/203
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Nov 2019
Remi Jedwab, Prakash Loungani and Anthony M. Yezer
George Washington University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and George Washington University - Department of Economics
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Cost of living, Migrations, Economic growth, National income, Low income countries, Urbanization, Cities, Urban Giants, Population, Standard Urban Model, Measurement, Urban Technology, Building Heights, Sprawl, Housing, Transportation, WP, city size, night lights, country city

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The Distributional Effects of Government Spending Shocks in Developing Economies

IMF Working Paper No. 18/57
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Apr 2018
Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jun Ge and Giovanni Melina
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Fiscal policy, Fiscal shocks, Inequality, Income distribution

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The Global Disconnect: The Role of Transactional Distance and Scale Economies in Gravity Equations

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 49, pp. 526-543, 2002
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Feb 2003
Prakash Loungani, Ashoka Mody and Assaf Razin
International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics
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Inflation Anchoring, Real Borrowing Costs, and Growth: Evidence from Sectoral Data

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Jun 2019
Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri and Prakash Loungani
Yonsei University, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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industry-level growth; inflation anchoring; inflation uncertainty; long-run growth; credit constraints

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From the Global to the National Cycle: An Intricate Liaison

Pacific Economic Review, Vol. 18, Issue 3, pp. 370-402, 2013
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Aug 2013
M. Ayhan Kose, Prakash Loungani and Marco E. Terrones
Development Prospects Group at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Evidence on Nominal Wage Rigidity from a Panel of U.S. Manufacturing Industries

JOURNAL OF MONEY, CREDIT, AND BANKING, Vol. 28, No. 4, Part 1, November 1996
Posted: 14 May 1998
Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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Central Bank Independence, Inflation and Growth in Transition Economics

JOURNAL OF MONEY, CREDIT, AND BANKING, Vol 28 No 3, August 1997
Posted: 07 Apr 1997
Prakash Loungani and Nathan Sheets
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Federal Reserve Board

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Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Trade-Off

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System International Finance Disc. Paper 577
Posted: 03 Apr 1997
Prakash Loungani, Assaf Razin and Chi-Wa Yuen
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance

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