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93: Russia, EU enlargement and the euro

Zbigniew Polanski and Adalbert Winkler

92: The Gulf Cooperation Council countries – economic structures, recent developments and role in the global economy

Michael Sturm, Jan Strasky, Petra Adolf and Dominik Peschel

91: The impact of sovereign wealth funds on global financial markets

Roland Beck and Michael Fidora

90: Wage growth dispersion across the euro area countries - some stylised facts

Malin Andersson, Arne Gieseck, Beatrice Pierluigi and Nick Vidalis

89: An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area

Ramon Gomez-Salvador and Nadine Leiner-Killinger

88: Real convergence, financial markets, and the current account – Emerging Europe versus emerging Asia

Sabine Herrmann and Adalbert Winkler

87: Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges

Klaus Masuch, Ramon Gómez-Salvador, Nadine Leiner-Killinger, Rolf Strauch, Jarkko Turunen, Melanie Ward-Warmedinger, Jan De Mulder, Harald Edgar Stahl, Yvonne McCarthy, Daphne Nicolitsas, Aitor Lacuesta, Mathilde Ravanel, Piero Cipollone, Christelle Olsommer, Alfred M. Stiglbauer, Álvaro Novo, Klara Stovicek, Heidi Schauman, Almut Balleer, Kieran McQuinn, Pasqualino Montanaro, Alfonso Rosolia, Eliana Viviano, Cláudia Filipa Duarte and Matija Vodopivec

86: Real convergence and the determinants of growth in EU candidate and potential candidate countries - a panel data approach

Magdalena Morgese Borys, Éva Katalin Polgár and Andrei Zlate

85: Benchmarking the Lisbon Strategy

Demosthenes Ioannou, Marien Ferdinandusse, Marco Lo Duca and Wouter Coussens

84: Short-term forecasting of GDP using large monthly datasets - a pseudo real-time forecast evaluation exercise

Karim Barhoumi, Szilard Benk, Riccardo Cristadoro, Ard den Reijer, Audrone Jakaitiene, Piotr Jelonek, António Rua, Gerhard Rünstler, Karsten Ruth and Christophe Van Nieuwenhuyze

83: The predictability of monetary policy

Tobias Blattner, Marco Catenaro, Michael Ehrmann, Rolf Strauch and Jarkko Turunen

82: The sustainability of China's exchange rate policy and capital account liberalisation

Lorenzo Cappiello and Gianluigi Ferrucci

81: Measuring financial integration in new EU member states

Markus Baltzer, Lorenzo Cappiello, Roberto A. De Santis and Simone Manganelli

80: China's and India's roles in global trade and finance - twin titans for the new millennium?

Matthieu Bussiere and Arnaud Jérôme Mehl

79: The working of the eurosystem - monetary policy preparations and decision-making – selected issues

Philippe Moutot, Alexander Jung and Francesco Paolo Mongelli

78: A framework for assessing global imbalances

Thierry Bracke, Matthieu Bussiere, Michael Fidora and Roland Straub

77: Oil market structure, network effects and the choice of currency for oil invoicing

Elitza Mileva and Nikolaus A Siegfried

76: Prudential and oversight requirements for securities settlement

Daniela Russo, Giacomo Caviglia, Chryssa Papathanassiou and Simonetta Rosati

75: The role of other financial intermediaries in monetary and credit developments in the euro area

Philippe Moutot, Dieter Gerdesmeier, Adriana Lojschová and Julian von Landesberger

74: Analysis of revisions to general economic statistics

Mariagnese Branchi, Christian Dieden, Wim Haine, Csaba Horwáth, Andrew Kanutin and Linda Kezbere

73: Reserve accumulation - objective or by-product?

Johannes Onno de Beaufort Wijnholds and Lars Søndergaard

72: The role of financial markets and innovation in productivity and growth in Europe

Philipp Hartmann, Florian Heider, Elias Papaioannou and Marco Lo Duca

71: The economic impact of the Single Euro Payments Area

Heiko Schmiedel

70: The search for Columbus’ egg - finding a new formula to determine quotas at the IMF

Martin Skala, Christian Thimann and Regine Wölfinger

69: Fiscal policy in Mediterranean countries – developments, structures and implications for monetary policy

Michael Sturm and François Gurtner

68: The securities custody industry

Diana Chan, Florence Fontan, Simonetta Rosati and Daniela Russo

67: Towards harmonised balance of payments and international investment position statistics – the experience of the European compilers

Jean Marc Israël and Carlos Sánchez Muñoz

66: Structural reforms in EMU and the role of monetary policy – a survey of the literature

Nadine Leiner-Killinger, Víctor López Pérez, Roger Stiegert and Giovanni Vitale

65: The performance of credit rating systems in the assessment of collateral used in Eurosystem monetary policy operations

François Coppens, Fernando González and Gerhard Winkler

64: The use of portfolio credit risk models in Central Banks

Ulrich Bindseil, van der Hoorn Han, Ken Nyholm, Henrik Schwartzlose, Pierre Ledoyen, Wolfgang Föttinger, Fernando Monar, Bérénice Boux, Gigliola Chiappa, Noëlle Honings, Ricardo Amado, Kai Sotamaa and Dan Rosen

63: Corporate finance in the euro area – including background material

Francesco Drudi, Annalisa Ferrando, Petra Köhler-Ulbrich, David Marqués Ibañez, Philippine Cour-Thimann, Vanessa Baugnet, Elmar Stoess, Thomas Vlassopoulos, Carmen Martínez-Carrascal, Katia Tombois, Peter Mc.Goldrick, Carmelo Salleo, Romain Perrard, Maarten Hendrikx, Walter Waschiczek, Paula Antão and Anssi Rantala

62: Inflation-linked bonds from a Central Bank perspective

Juan Angel Garcia and Adrian Van Rixtel

61: Determinants of growth in the central and eastern European EU member states - a production function approach

Olga Arratibel, Frigyes Ferdinand Heinz, Reiner Martin, Marcin Przybyla, Lucasz Rawdanowicz, Roberta Serafini and Tina Zumer

60: Commodity price fluctuations and their impact on monetary and fiscal policies in Western and Central Africa

Uwe Böwer, André Geis and Adalbert Winkler

59: The ECB survey of professional forecasters (SPF) – A review after eight years’ experience

Carlos Bowles, Roberta Friz, Veronique Genre, Geoff Kenny, Aidan Meyler and Tuomas Rautanen

58: Long-term growth prospects for the Russian economy

Roland Beck, Annette Kamps and Elitza Mileva

57: Understanding price developments and consumer price indices in south-eastern Europe

Sabine Herrmann and Eva Katalin Polgar

56: Assessing fiscal soundness - Theory and practice

Nicola Giammarioli, Christiane Nickel, Philipp Rother and Jean-Pierre Vidal

55: Globalisation and euro area trade: Interactions and challenges

Ursel Baumann and Filippo di Mauro

54: Quantitative quality indicators for statistics – an application to euro area balance of payment statistics

Violetta Damia and Carmen Picón Aguilar

53: Labour productivity developments in the euro area

Ramon Gomez-Salvador, Alberto Musso, Marc Stocker and Jarkko Turunen

52: Cross-border labour mobility within an enlarged EU

Frigyes Ferdinand Heinz and Melanie Ward-Warmedinger

51: Macroeconomic implications of demographic developments in the euro area

Angela Maddaloni, Alberto Musso, Philipp Rother, Melanie Ward-Warmedinger and Thomas Westermann

50: Implications for liquidity from innovation and transparency in the European corporate bond market

Marco Laganá, Martin Perina, Isabel von Köppen-Mertes and Avinash Persaud

49: Credit risk mitigation in central bank operations and its effects on financial markets - the case of the Eurosystem

Ulrich Bindseil and Francesco Papadia

48: Macroeconomic and financial stability challenges for acceding and candidate countries

Adalbert Winkler and Roland Beck

47: The reform and implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact

Richard Morris, Hedwig Ongena and Ludger Schuknecht

46: Inflation persistence and price-setting behaviour in the euro area – a summary of the IPN evidence

Filippo Altissimo, Michael Ehrmann and Frank Rafael Smets

45: Output growth differentials across the euro area countries - some stylised facts

Nicholai Benalal, Juan Luis Diaz del Hoyo, Beatrice Pierluigi and Nikiforos Vidalis

44: Competition, productivity and prices in the euro area services sector

Ad van Riet and Moreno Roma