Portugal Selected Issues

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 pol...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1998
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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653 |a Business cycles 
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653 |a Finance 
653 |a Short-term Capital Movements 
653 |a Currency; Foreign exchange 
653 |a Saving 
653 |a Current Account Adjustment 
653 |a Balance of payments 
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653 |a National accounts 
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653 |a Exports 
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653 |a Economic growth 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Macroeconomics: Consumption 
653 |a Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data) 
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520 |a 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