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09/100: Financial Stress, Downturns, and Recoveries
Selim Elekdag , Roberto Cardarelli and Subir Lall
09/99: The impact of the regional cross-listing of stocks on firm value in sub-Saharan Africa
Olatundun Janet Adelegan
09/98: Understanding Inflation Inertia in Angola
Nir Klein and Alexander Kyei
09/97: Why Are Japanese Wages So Sluggish?
Martin Sommer
09/96: The Challenge of Reforming Budgetary Institutions in Developing Countries
Richard Allen
09/95: Ponzi Schemes in the Caribbean
Ana Carvajal , Hunter K. Monroe , Brian Wynter and Catherine A. Pattillo
09/94: Inflation Targeting Under Imperfect Policy Credibility
Turgut Kisinbay , Ondra Kamenik , Ali Alichi , Charles Freedman , M. Johnson , Kevin Clinton , Huigang Chen and Douglas Laxton
09/93: Global Relative Poverty
Lynge Nielsen
09/92: The Size of Government and U.S.-European Differences in Economic Performance
Norikazu Tawara and Gerwin Bell
09/91: Remittances: An Automatic Output Stabilizer?
Ralph Chami , Dalia Hakura and Peter Montiel
09/90: Inflation Hedging for Long-Term Investors
Shaun K. Roache and Alexander P. Attie
09/89: Global Imbalances and Petrodollars
Rabah Arezki and Fuad Hasanov
09/88: Chile's Structural Fiscal Surplus Rule: A Model-Based Evaluation
Michael Kumhof and Douglas Laxton
09/87: IT Framework Design Parameters
Charles Freedman and Douglas Laxton
09/86: Why Inflation Targeting?
Charles Freedman and Douglas Laxton
09/85: Adding Latin America to the Global Projection Model
Charles Freedman , M. Johnson , Canales Kriljenko, Jorge Iván , Garcia-Saltos, Roberto and Douglas Laxton
09/84: Accrual Budgeting and Fiscal Policy
Marc Robinson
09/83: Hold Your Nose and Vote: Why Do Some Democracies Tolerate Corruption?
Marco Pani
09/82: Determinants of Inflation in GCC
Hanan Morsy and Magda E. Kandil
09/81: Exchange Rate Assessment for Oil Exporters
Enders, Klaus-Stefan
09/80: The Crisis: Basic Mechanisms and Appropriate Policies
Olivier J. Blanchard
09/78: Assessing Exchange Rate Competitiveness in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Emilio Pineda , Paul Cashin and Yan Sun
09/77: Optimal Reserves in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Wendell A. Samuel , Mario Dehesa and Emilio Pineda
09/76: Simple, Implementable Fiscal Policy Rules
Michael Kumhof and Douglas Laxton
09/75: Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Brett Rayner and Joannes Mongardini
09/74: Limited Information Bayesian Model Averaging for Dynamic Panels with Short Time Periods
Charalambos G. Tsangarides , Alin Mirestean and Huigang Chen
09/73: A Coincident Indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Business Cycle
Al-Hassan, Abdullah
09/72: The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity
Marialuz Moreno Badia and Veerle Slootmaekers
09/71: ECCU Business Cycles: Impact of the U.S
Wendell A. Samuel and Yan Sun
09/70: Financial Stability Frameworks and the Role of Central Banks: Lessons from the Crisis
Erlend Nier
09/69: From Subprime Loans to Subprime Growth? Evidence for the Euro Area
Cihák, Martin and Petya Koeva Brooks
09/68: Five Years After: European Union Membership and Macro-Financial Stability in the New Member States
Cihák, Martin and Wim Fonteyne
09/67: Accounting for Output Drops in Latin America
Ruy Lama
09/66: A New Keynesian Model of the Armenian Economy
Ara Stepanyan , Ashot Mkrtchyan and Dabla-Norris, Era
09/65: Developing a Structured Forecasting and Policy Analysis System to Support Inflation-Forecast Targeting (IFT)
Douglas Laxton , David Rose and Alasdair Scott
09/63: Global Imbalances: The Role of Non-TradableTotal Factor Productivity in Advanced Economies
Nicoletta Batini , Pietro Cova , Massimiliano Pisani and Alessandro Rebucci
09/62: The Use (and Abuse) of CDS Spreads During Distress
Carolyne Spackman and Manmohan Singh
09/61: Universal Health Care 101: Lessons for the Eastern Caribbean and Beyond
Evridiki Tsounta
09/60: Targeting Social Transfers to the Poor in Mexico
David Coady and Susan Parker
09/59: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Options for Dealing with External Shocks: Insights from the GIMF for Colombia
Daniel Leigh , Enrique Flores and Benedict J. Clements
09/58: Social Security Reforms in Colombia: Striking Demographic and Fiscal Balances
Sergio Clavijo
09/57: Irrational Exuberance in the U.S. Housing Market: Were Evangelicals Left Behind?
Christopher W. Crowe
09/56: A Primer on Fiscal Analysis in Oil-Producing Countries
Daria Zakharova and Paulo A. Medas
09/54: Foreign Banks in the CESE Countries: In for a Penny, in for a Pound?
Andrea M. Maechler and Li L. Ong
09/53: Credit Market in Morocco: A Disequilibrium Approach
Nada Oulidi and Laurence Allain
09/52: Global Liquidity, Risk Premiums and Growth Opportunities
Gianni De Nicoló and Iryna V. Ivaschenko
09/51: Forces Driving Inflation in the New EU10 Members
Emil S Stavrev
09/50: Fiscal and Monetary Policy During Downturns: Evidence from the G7
Daniel Leigh and Sven Jari Stehn
09/49: In Search of a Dramatic Equilibrium: Was the Armenian Dram Overvalued?
Nienke Oomes , Gohan Minasyan and Ara Stepanyan
09/47: The Italian Labor Market: Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options
Martin Schindler
09/46: Sovereign Default, Private Sector Creditors and the IFIs
Emine Boz
09/45: Competition in the Financial Sector: Overview of Competition Policies
Stijn Claessens
09/44: Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World
Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo
09/43: The Second Transition: Eastern Europe in Perspective
Ashoka Mody , Daniel Leigh and Stefania Fabrizio
09/42: Deleveraging After Lehman--Evidence from Reduced Rehypothecation
James Aitken and Manmohan Singh
09/41: Commodity Price Volatility, Cyclical Fluctuations, and Convergence: What is Ahead for Inflation in Emerging Europe?
Edda Zoli
09/40: Capital Inflows: Macroeconomic Implications and Policy Responses
Ayhan Kose , Selim Elekdag and Roberto Cardarelli
09/39: Procyclicality and Fair Value Accounting
Juan Sole , Alicia Novoa and Jodi Scarlata
09/38: Can the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union Afford to Grow Old?
Hunter K. Monroe
09/37: Dedollarization in Liberia-Lessons from Cross-country Experience
Lodewyk Erasmus , Jules Leichter and Jeta Menkulasi
09/36: The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-up Aid: The Case of Niger
Gonzalo Salinas , Abdikarim Farah and Emilio Sacerdoti
09/35: The Volatility Costs of Procyclical Lending Standards:An Assessment Using a DSGE Model
Silvia Sgherri and Bertrand Gruss
09/34: The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off at Low Inflation
Pierpaolo Benigno and Luca Antonio Ricci
09/33: Current Account and Precautionary Savings for Exporters of Exhaustible Resources
Irineu Evangelista de Carvalho Filho and Rudolfs Bems
09/32: Evaluating Historical CGER Assessments:How Well Have They Predicted Subsequent Exchange Rate Movements?
Abdul Abiad , Prakash Kannan and Jungjin Lee
09/31: In Search of WTO Trade Effects:Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly
Theo S. Eicher and Christian Henn
09/30: Are Capital Controls Effective in the 21st Century? The Recent Experience of Colombia
Herman Kamil and Benedict J. Clements
09/29: The Cost of Aggressive Sovereign Debt Policies: How Much is thePrivate Sector Affected?
Christoph Trebesch
09/28: Current Account Determinants for Oil-Exporting Countries
Hanan Morsy
09/27: The Value of Institutions for Financial Markets: Evidence from Emerging Markets
Thomas Stratmann and Bernardin Akitoby
09/26: An Investigation of Some Macro-Financial Linkages of Securitization
Mangal Goswami , Andreas Jobst and Xin Long
09/25: Why Isn't South Africa Growing Faster? A Comparative Approach
Luc Eyraud
09/24: Can Markets Compute Equilibria?
Hunter K. Monroe
09/23: Regional Financial Spillovers Across Europe:A Global VAR Analysis
Silvia Sgherri and Alessandro Galesi
09/22: Monetary and Fiscal Rules in an Emerging Small Open Economy
Nicoletta Batini , Paul Levine and Joseph Gerson Pearlman
09/21: Causes, Benefits, and Risks of Business Tax Incentives
Alexander Klemm
09/20: Capital Inflows and the Real Exchange Rate: Can Financial Development Cure the DutchDisease?
Christian Saborowski
09/19: An Index Number Formula Problem: The Aggregation of Broadly Comparable Items
Mick Silver
09/18: On Impatience and Policy Effectiveness
Silvia Sgherri and Tamim Bayoumi
09/17: Does Global Liquidity Matter for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area?
Helge Berger and Thomas Harjes
09/16: The Declining Importance of Tradable Goods Manufacturing in Australia and New Zealand: How Much can Growth Theory Explain?
Ben Hunt
09/15: The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Valentina Flamini , Calvin A. McDonald and Liliana Schumacher
09/14: Bank Efficiency in Sub-Saharan African Middle Income Countries
Chuling Chen
09/13: Why Do Central Banks Go Weak?
Nada Oulidi and Alain Ize
09/12: The International Diversification Puzzle when Goods Prices are Sticky: It's Really about Exchange-Rate Hedging, not Equity Portfolios
Charles Engel and Akito Matsumoto
09/11: How Can Burundi Raise Its Growth Rate?The Impact of Civil Conflicts and State Intervention on Burundi's Growth Performance
Olivier Basdevant
09/10: Benford’s Law and Macroeconomic Data Quality
Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus and Gonzalo C. Pastor
09/9: Distress in European Banks: An Analysis Based on a New Dataset
Cihák, Martin and Tigran Poghosyan
09/8: The Role for Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policy in Singapore
Leif Lybecker Eskesen
09/7: Australia and New Zealand Exchange Rates: A Quantitative Assessment
Hali J. Edison , Hali J. Edison , Francis Vitek and Francis Vitek (Francis Vitek and Hali Edison )
09/6: Regional Financial Interlinkages and Financial Contagion Within Europe
Zsofia Arvai , Karl Driessen and Inci Ötker-Robe
09/5: A European Mandate for Financial Sector Supervisors in the EU
Daniel C. L. Hardy
09/4: Banking Stability Measures
Miguel A. Segoviano Basurto and C. A. E. Goodhart
09/3: Yen Bloc or Yuan Bloc: An Analysis of Currency Arrangements in East Asia
Kazuko Shirono
09/2: Recent French Export Performance: Is There a Competitiveness Problem?
Alain Kabundi and Nadal-De Simone, Francisco
09/1: Inflation Pressures and Monetary Policy Options in Emerging and Developing Countries-A Cross Regional Perspective
Jácome, Luis Ignacio , Ötker, Inci , Turgut Kisinbay , Vázquez, Francisco F. , Alessandro Giustiniani , Vávra, David , Kotaro Ishi and Karl Friedrich Habermeier (David Vavra )
08/289: Monetary Policy and Relative Price Shocks in South Africa and Other Inflation Targeters
Secil Topak and Alfredo Cuevas
08/288: Is Monetary Policy Effective When Credit is Low?
Ana Carolina Saizar and Nigel Andrew Chalk
08/287: Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa
Gonzalo Salinas and Patrick A. Imam
08/286: Volatility Spillovers and Contagion from Mature to Emerging Stock Markets
John Beirne , Guglielmo Maria Caporale , Schulze-Ghattas, Marianne and Nicola Spagnolo