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  • Resolving Puzzles of Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets (English)

    Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and depreciation...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10974 Document Date: November 14, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jongrim Ha,Dohan Kim,Ayhan Kose,Prasad,Eswar S.

  • Philippines Monthly Economic Developments (October 2024) (English)

    Most forward-looking indicators and a strong labor market suggest near-term expansion although manufacturing exports weakened. Sustained disinflation has allowed the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 194455 Document Date: October 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Rate Cycles (English)

    This paper analyzes cycles in policy interest rates in 24 advanced economies over 1970–2024, combining a new application of business cycle methodology with rich time-series decompositions of the shocks...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10876 Document Date: August 20, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Forbes,Kristin,Jongrim Ha,Ayhan Kose

  • How Do Rising U.S. Interest Rates Affect Emerging and Developing Economies ? It Depends (English)

    This paper examines the implications of different types of interest rate shocks in the United States for emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). It first classifies changes in U.S. interest rates...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10258 Document Date: December 8, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arteta,Carlos,Kamin,Steven Brian,Ruch,Franz Ulrich

  • The Macroeconomic Effects of Macroprudential Policy : Evidence from a Narrative Approach (English)

    This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of macroprudential policy—in the form of legal reserve requirements—in three Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). To correctly identify...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10145 Document Date: August 24, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rojas Alvarado,Luis Diego,Vegh,Carlos,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier

  • Vietnam - Local Development Investment Funds Project (English)

    Ratings for the Local Development Investment Funds Project for Vietnam were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, risk to development outcome was moderate, Bank performance was moderately...

    Document Type: Implementation Completion and Results Report Report No.: ICR3993 Document Date: December 27, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • DECPG daily economic news (English)

    Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economic news are as follows: financial markets; high income economies; and developing economies in...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 91103 Document Date: July 30, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Derek Hung Chiat,Kambou,Gerard,Kim,Eung Ju

  • DECPG weekly global economic brief (English)

    Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: global equity markets experienced a generalized correction...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 89976 Document Date: February 6, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Reserve requirements in the brave new macroprudential world (English)

    Using a new, large data set on quarterly reserve requirements for the period 1970-2011, this paper provides new evidence on the use of reserve requirements as a countercyclical macroprudential tool in...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6793 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cordella,Tito,Federico,Pablo M,Vegh Gramont,Carlos Alberto,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier

  • Reserve requirements in the brave new macroprudential world (English)

    The active use of prudential instruments to regulate the level of credit and influence its allocation, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, fell somehow into disgrace in the 1990s, when the regulatory pendulum...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 86475 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cordella,Tito,Federico,Pablo M,Vegh Gramont,Carlos Alberto,Vuletin,Guillermo Javier

  • Romania - Macro-financial monitoring (English)

    Romania Economic growth picked up in the first half of 2013 with real GDP growing 1.8 percent, supported by strong exports performance while domestic demand remained subdued. CPI inflation dropped more...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 108517 Document Date: November 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Romania - Macro-financial monitoring (English)

    Romania’s inflation and interest rate have fallen. The economy is starting to expand led exports (export of goods expanded by 10.8 percent from June to July; seasonally adjusted). However, investment and...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 108509 Document Date: September 23, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Romania - Macro-financial monitoring (English)

    Romania’s recent economic performance has been favorable – downward trend for inflation (4.4 percent in July); high growth of industrial production and exports (both grew by about 6 percent from the second...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 108508 Document Date: August 30, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • DECPG daily economics and financial market commentary (English)

    Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: market rally fades as bailout...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 61604 Document Date: May 11, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Riordan, Mick,Savescu,Cristina,Islam Spivak, Nadia,Kim,Eung Ju,Streifel,Shane S.,De Kleine Feige,Annette I.

  • DECPG daily brief economics and financial market commentary (English)

    Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. Consumer Price Index...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 60481 Document Date: February 21, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Riordan, Mick,Savescu,Cristina,Kim,Eung Ju,Streifel,Shane S.,DeKleine, Annette