IMF Staff Country Reports

Finland: Selected Issues and Analytical Notes

August 31, 2012

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Summary

This Selected Issues and Analytical Note on Finland discusses the potential spillovers to Finland from various shocks associated with cross-country interlinkages. The note provides an overview of the trade and financial linkages, assesses the impact of global fiscal consolidation on Finland via trade links, quantifies dynamic contributions from external sources to growth, and uses these contributions to forecast the potential loss to Finnish GDP from a growth slowdown in other European countries; and analyzes the potential impact from the banking sector or sovereign stress.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Output gap, Production, Public debt

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Banking sector stress test, Basel III, CR, Europe, Finland, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal stance, Fund staff calculation, GDP, GDP growth, Global, Housing price, ISCR, Output gap, Output growth, Price, Production function approach, Spending limit

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    90

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2012/254

  • Stock No:

    1FINEA2012002

  • ISBN:

    9781475506013

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685