IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 2

June 18, 2008

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 2, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

This special issue is devoted to the Global Economy Model (GEM), a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models widely used by the IMF and central banks worldwide to study issues that cannot be adequately addressed with reduced-form econometric models or an earlier generation of macromodels whose dynamic equations were not based on strong choice-theoretic foundations. Douglas Laxton discusses the GEM philosophy and explains how its modelers find solutions to their systems of nonlinear equations. Paolo Pesenti then lays out the structure of model in detail, explaining how the various equations in GEM are derived from individual and firm-level self-interested maximizing behavior and how individual decisions interact with government policy rules. The remaining six papers are specific applications of the GEM structure to a variety of real problems and policy issues.

Subject: Consumption, Energy prices, Inflation, Labor, National accounts, Oil prices, Prices

Keywords: Adjustment cost, Asia and Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Consumption, Energy price, Energy prices, Europe, Global, Inflation, NM economy, Nominal interest rate, Oil price, Oil prices, Oil-importing region, PLPT, SP

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Pages:

163
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IMF Staff Papers No. 2008/004
Stock No:

SPIEA2008002
ISBN:

9781589067233
ISSN:

1020-7635

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