TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Jaewoo AU - Milesi-Ferretti,Gian AU - Ostry,Jonathan David AU - Prati,Alessandro AU - Ricci,Luca Antonio TI - Exchange Rate Assessments: CGER Methodologies T2 - Occasional Papers; Occasional Paper SN - 1589066383 : SN - 0251-6365 PY - 2008/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - International Monetary Fund KW - Current Account Balance KW - imf KW - Current Account KW - Exchange Rate KW - Real Exchange Rate KW - Algeria KW - China, People's Republic of KW - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China KW - Slovak Republic KW - United States N2 - The rapid increase in international trade and financial integration over the past decade and the growing importance of emerging markets in world trade and GDP have inspired the IMF to place stronger emphasis on multilateral surveillance, macro-financial linkages, and the implications of globalization. The IMF's Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues (CGER)--formed in the mid-1990s to provide exchange rate assessments for a number of advanced economies from a multilateral perspective--has therefore broadened its mandate to cover both key advanced economies and major emerging market economies. This Occasional Paper summarizes the methodologies that underpin the expanded analysis UR - http://elibrary.imf.org/view/IMF084/04596-9781589066380/04596-9781589066380/04596-9781589066380.xml UR - http://www.imfbookstore.org/IMFORG/9781589066380 ER -