The IFC's contribution to the 54th ISI Session, Berlin, August 2003

The IFC's contribution to the 54th ISI Session, Berlin, August 2003

IFC Bulletin | No 17 |

01 February 2004

| 89 pages

News	page
Short Report of the IFC Administrative Meeting Berlin, 15 August 2003	5
The response of the ISI General Assembly to the IFC's application for Section status	9
The follow-up of the IFC's application for Section status within the ISI	10
IFC Conference in Basel (2004)	11
Participation of the IFC in ISI Session, Sydney, 2005	14

Berlin 2003

Discussants' comments
The use of hedonic methods for quality-adjusted prices John Astin	15
Use of statistics in developing monetary policy Alfred De Marco	18
Use of statistics in developing monetary policy Diwa C Guinigundo	22

Extended papers
The role of statistics in the conduct of monetary policy in Albania Shelquim Cani and Gramos Kolasi	25
Measuring Tourism in the context of International Trade in Services Antonio Massieu	39
FATS statistics: Multinational enterprises, the globalization process and BoP data Frédéric Boccara, François Renard	44
Implementing the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services: Are we progressing? William Cave	62
Travel in Balance of Payments Statistics Branimir Gruić and Igor Jemrić	67
Multidimensional insights on Italy's outbound business travel Giovanni Giuseppe Ortolani and Andrea Alivernini	74
Sample surveys at the Bank of Italy Raffaele Tartaglia Polcini	87

The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Committee, its members or the BIS.