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Italy-Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System »
Source: Italy-Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System
Volume/Issue: 2007/26
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 February 2007
ISBN: 9781451865905
Keywords: efficiency, merger, banking sector, mergers,
The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The...
I Introduction »
Source: The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA : Occa Paper No.74
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 December 1990
ISBN: 9781557751744
The member states of the European Community (EC) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) have a special relationship based on geographic proximity, a shared history, common values and—as many see it—a...
X Tax Harmonization »
Source: The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA : Occa Paper No.74
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 December 1990
ISBN: 9781557751744
With the implementation of free mobility of commodities and factor inputs, the EC Commission has stressed the need for tax harmonization. The Commission has given top priority to harmonizing indirect taxes,...
V Trade in Goods »
Source: The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA : Occa Paper No.74
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 December 1990
ISBN: 9781557751744
Most of the trade in goods between the EC and EFTA is in industrial products, which account for more than 90 percent of EFTA exports. Although fish products account for only a small percentage of total EFTA...
III Institutional and Legal Issues »
Source: The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA : Occa Paper No.74
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 December 1990
ISBN: 9781557751744
A number of institutional and legal issues arise as a result of efforts toward intensified EC-EFTA cooperation. There is a need for increased mutual recognition in civil law, particularly with regard to comm...
IX European Monetary Unification and the EFTA »
Source: The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA : Occa Paper No.74
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 December 1990
ISBN: 9781557751744
Although the establishment of an economic and monetary union (EMU) is not part of the internal market program, its completion is sometimes seen as a precondition for the program’s success because of the far-...
VIII Financial Services and Capital Movements »
Source: The Impact of the European Community's internal Market on the EFTA : Occa Paper No.74
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 December 1990
ISBN: 9781557751744
The Community’s efforts to create a European financial area 59 are two-pronged: the removal of all barriers that inhibit cross-border trade in financial services and the establish...
5 Inflation and Monetary Policy Reform »
Source: Australia : Benefiting from Economic Reforms
Series: Books
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 20 November 1998
ISBN: 9781557757326
Keywords: inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, employment, current account deficit
A key feature of Australia’s economic performance in the 1970s and for most of the 1980s was relatively high inflation. In the 1970s, inflation rose more sharply than in other OECD countries and, in the 1980...
VI Regional Trading Arrangements »
Source: International Trade Policies : Volume II The Uruguay Round and Beyond: Background Papers
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): Peter Uimonen , Arvind Subramanian , Naheed Kirmani , Nur Calika , Michael Leidy , and Richard Harmsen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 February 1995
ISBN: 9781557754578
Keywords: competition, free trade, trade diversion, competition policy, competition policies
Regional trading arrangements 2 have become increasingly important in the relations among Fund members. This paper reviews recent developments in regional trading arrangements, fa...
I Economic Implications of the Uruguay Round »
Source: International Trade Policies : Volume II The Uruguay Round and Beyond: Background Papers
Series: World Economic and Financial Surveys
Author(s): Peter Uimonen , Arvind Subramanian , Naheed Kirmani , Nur Calika , Michael Leidy , and Richard Harmsen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 08 February 1995
ISBN: 9781557754578
Keywords: competition, free trade, trade diversion, competition policy, competition policies
The Final Act of the Uruguay Round was signed in Marrakesh in April 1994, bringing to a conclusion the eighth and most ambitious set of multilateral trade negotiations. One hundred and twenty-five countries...