Portugal: Selected Issues
Electronic Access:
Free Download. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file
Summary:
This Selected Issues paper on Portugal reviews a set of issues of relevance to the regime change implied by European Monetary Union participation. It presents an empirical investigation of the business cycle in Portugal. The paper attempts to obtain a quantitative sense of the impact of monetary policy on the Portuguese economy, utilizing an unrestricted vector autoregression methodology to characterize the monetary transmission mechanism. It also examines some key forces at work in Portugal’s external sector from different vantage points.
Series:
Country Report No. 1997/121
Subject:
Balance of payments Economic growth Foreign exchange International trade National accounts
English
Publication Date:
January 15, 1998
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451832105/1934-7685
Stock No:
1PRTEA0011997
Pages:
142
Please address any questions about this title to publications@imf.org