The Role of MULTIMOD in the IMF's Policy Analysis /

This paper describes the basic structure, underlying philosophy, and key behavioral properties of MULTIMOD. It also focuses on several recent applications of macromodels in the IMF's policy analysis, emphasizing that most questions put forward for analysis with models like MULTIMOD are initiall...

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Huvudupphovsman: Isard, Peter
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Serie:IMF Policy Discussion Papers; Policy Discussion Paper ; No. 2000/005
Länkar:Full text available on IMF
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