01570cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022812 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 20.00 USD 9781451832105 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Portugal : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998. 1 online resource (142 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 1997/121 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1934-7685&volume=1997&issue=121 IMF e-Library