Tag: International Monetary Fund

IMF Says China in Historic Transition, Economic Rebalancing

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)- Christine Lagarde, managing director (MD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday China is in the midst of a historic transition aimed at transforming and rebalancing its economy. “This transition is good for China and good for the world. As with any […]

Increased Inter-agency Collaboration to Improve Data for Debt, Fiscal Risks Analysis-TFFS

March 18, 2016/IMF The Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS) convened in Washington, DC on March 17-18, 2016 to discuss progress on work to increase the availability and quality of external and public sector debt data. The meeting was hosted by the IMF, and brought together representatives from the Bank […]

Foreign Exchange Intervention under Policy Uncertainty

March 17, 2016/IMF Author/Editor: Gustavo Adler, Ruy Lama, Juan Pablo Medina Guzman Summary: We study the use of foreign exchange (FX) intervention as an additional policy instrument in an environment with learning, where agents infer the central bank policy rules from its policy actions. Under full information, a central bank […]