Coincident Indicators of Capital Flows /

Capital flows data from Balance of Payments statistics often lag 3-6 months, which renders timely surveillance and policy deliberation difficult. To address the tension, we propose two coincident composite indicators for capital flows that improve upon existing proxies. We find that the most widely...

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Autor principal: Pant, Malika
Otros Autores: Miao, Yanliang
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/055
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF
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