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08/211: House Price Developments in Europe: A Comparison: Paul Hilbers, Angana Banerji, Haiyan Shi and Alexander W. Hoffmaister
08/210: Central Bank Response to the 2007-08 Financial Market Turbulence: Experiences and Lessons Drawn: Peter Stella, Seiichi Shimizu, Simon Gray, Ulrich Helmut Klueh and Alexandre Chailloux
08/209: Original Sin and Procylical Fiscal Policy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?: Gustavo Adler
08/208: Global Volatility and Forex Returns in East Asia: Sanjay Kalra
08/207: Investment Incentives and Effective Tax Rates in the Philippines:A Comparison With Neighboring Countries: Alexander Daniel Klemm, Dennis Botman and Reza Baqir
08/206: Stress Testing at the IMF: Mark Swinburne, Stephanie Marie Stolz and Marina Moretti
08/205: Impact of Macroeconomic, Political, and Institutional Factors on the Structure of Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: Anastasia Guscina
08/204: Foreign Aid and Real Exchange Rate Adjustments in a Financially Constrained Dependent Economy: Stephen J Turnovsky, Serpil Tekin and Valerie Cerra
08/203: Zero Corporate Income Tax in Moldova: Tax Competition and Its Implications for Eastern Europe: Marcin Piątkowski and Mariusz Jarmuzek
08/202: What Drives Household Borrowing and Credit Constraints? Evidence from Bosnia & Herzegovina: Ke Chen Chen and Mali Chivakul
08/201: Macroeconomic Effects of Pension Reform in Russia: David Hauner
08/200: Transmission of Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from the 2007 Subprime Crisis: Heiko Hesse, Nathaniel Frank and GonzÃ¡lez-Hermosillo, Brenda
08/199: Efficiency Costs of Myanmar's Multiple Exchange Rate Regime: Masahiro Hori and Yu Ching Wong
08/198: Equilibrium Non-Oil Current Account Assessments for Oil Producing Countries: Alun Thomas, Jun Kim and Aqib Aslam
08/197: The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation: Evidence from Brazil and Mexico: Irineu Evangelista de Carvalho Filho and Marcos Chamon
08/196: The Impact of Oil-Related Income on the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Syria: Jemma Dridi and Maher Hasan
08/195: Pension Privatization and Country Risk: Alfredo Cuevas, Maria Gonzalez, LÃ³pez-Marmolejo, Arnoldo and Davide Lombardo
08/194: The option-iPoD. The Probability of Default Implied by Option Prices based on Entropy: Christian Capuano
08/193: Understanding the Inflationary Process in the GCC Region: The Case of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait: Hesham Alogeel and Maher Hasan
08/192: Are Emerging Asia's Reserves Really Too High?: Marta Ruiz-Arranz and Milan Zavadjil
08/191: Monetary Transmission in an Emerging Targeter: The Case of Brazil: Adrian Rodney Pagan, Douglas Michael Laxton and CatÃ£o, Luis
08/190: Quality of Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision Around the World: CihÃ¡k, Martin and Alexander F. Tieman
08/189: Investigating Inflation Dynamics in Sudan: Kenji Moriyama
08/188: Innovation in Banking and Excessive Loan Growth: International Monetary Fund
08/187: What Goes Up Must Come Down? House Price Dynamics in the United States: Vladimir Klyuev
08/186: Real Effects of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Is it a Demand or a Finance Shock?: Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei
08/185: Rising Income Inequality: Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?: Chris Papageorgiou, Subir Lall and Florence Jaumotte
08/184: Credit Growth in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia Region: Joe Crowley
08/183: Kernel Density Estimation Based on Grouped Data: The Case of Poverty Assessment: Camelia Minoiu and Sanjay G. Reddy
08/182: Technology and Finance: Anna O. Ilyina and Roberto Mantaro Samaniego
08/181: Convergence in Emerging Europe: Sustainability and Vulnerabilities: Athanasios Vamvakidis
08/180: Bank Recycling of Petro Dollars to Emerging Market Economies During the Current Oil Price Boom: Johannes Wiegand
08/179: Germany's Corporate Governance Reforms: Has the System Become Flexible Enough?: Odenius, JÃ¼rgen
08/178: The Impact of Research and Development Tax Incentives on Colombia's Manufacturing Sector: What Difference Do They Make?: Valerie Mercer-Blackman
08/177: Consumer Confusion: The Choice of AFORE in Mexico: Schwartz, MoisÃ©s, DomÃnguez, Enrique and CalderÃ³n-ColÃn, Roberto
08/176: Central Bank Financial Strength and Policy Performance: An Econometric Evaluation: Peter Stella and Ulrich Helmut Klueh
08/175: Inflation Smoothing and the Modest Effect of VAT in Germany: Stephan Danninger and Alina Carare
08/174: A Framework for Developing Secondary Markets for Government Securities: Ãrvai, ZsÃ³fia and Geoffrey Heenan
08/173: Determinants of Foreign Currency Borrowing in the New Member States of the EU: Christoph Rosenberg and TirpÃ¡k, Marcel
08/172: Africa's Oil Abundance and External Competitiveness: Do Institutions Matter?: Mahvash Saeed Qureshi
08/171: The ECB's Monetary Analysis Revisited: Helge Berger, Thomas Harjes and Emil S Stavrev
08/170: Natural Resource Endowments, Governance, and the Domestic RevenueEffort: Evidence from a Panel of Countries: John Thornton, Fabian Bornhorst and Sanjeev Gupta
08/169: Credit Matters: Empirical Evidence on U.S. Macro-Financial Linkages: Tamim A Bayoumi and Ola Melander
08/168: The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in Honduras: David Locke Newhouse, Irene Yackovlev and Robert Gillingham
08/167: Do the Gulf Oil-Producing Countries Influence Regional Growth? the Impact of Financial and Remittance Flows: Nadeem Ilahi and Riham Shendy
08/166: The Information Content of Money in Forecasting Euro Area Inflation: Emil S Stavrev and Helge Berger
08/165: Reforming Government Subsidies in the New Member States of the European Union: Alex Segura-Ubiergo, Taline Koranchelian and Carlos Mulas-Granados
08/164: Strategic Interactions between an Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt: Sven Jari Stehn and David Vines
08/163: Medium-Term Budgetary Frameworks - Lessons for Austria from International Experience: LundbÃ¤ck, Erik
08/162: Vacation Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism: Rafael Romeu
08/161: A U.S. Financial Conditions Index: Putting Credit Where Credit is Due: Andrew Swiston
08/160: A Review of Capital Budgeting Practices: Davina Frederika Jacobs
08/159: Resolving a Large Contingent Fiscal Liability: Eastern Europe Experience: Mark Flanagan
08/158: Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World:A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis: Kenichi Ueda
08/157: Dollarization and Maturity Structure of Public Securities: The Experience of Bolivia: Esteban Vesperoni and Walter Orellana R.
08/156: Modeling Macro-Critical Energy Sectors in Low-Income Countries: A General Framework and an Application to CÃ´te d'Ivoire: Holger Fabig
08/155: Fiscal Policy and Economic Development: Alex Mourmouras and Peter Rangazas
08/154: Bolivia: The Hydrocarbons Boom and the Risk of Dutch Disease: Eugenio Martin Cerutti and Mario Mansilla
08/153: Bivariate Assessments of Real Exchange Rates Using PPP Data: Juan Zalduendo
08/152: A Model of Sovereign Debt in Democracies: Ali Alichi
08/151: How does a domestic tax reform effect protection against imports? The case of the Republic of Madagascar: Jean-Jacques Hallaert
08/150: Foreign Reserve Adequacy in sub-Saharan Africa: International Monetary Fund
08/149: International Reserves and Self-Insurance against External Shocks: Régis Barnichon
08/148: Stressing to Breaking Point: Interpreting Stress Test Results: DeLisle Worrell
08/147: Financial Supervisory Independence and Accountability-Exploring the Determinants: Donato Masciandaro, Marc G. Quintyn and Michael Taylor
08/146: Trade Openness and Volatility: Andrei A. Levchenko and Julian di Giovanni
08/145: Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?: Marcos Chamon and Eswar Prasad
08/144: Sudden Stops and Optimal Self-Insurance: Jun Kim
08/143: Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?: Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Christopher Otrok
08/142: Constraints on the Design and Implementation of Monetary Policy in Oil Economies: The Case of Venezuela: International Monetary Fund
08/141: Herd Behavior in Financial Markets: An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals: Marco Cipriani and Antonio Guarino
08/140: Much Ado About Nothing? Estimating the Impact of a U.S. Slowdown on Thai Growth: Shekhar Aiyar and Ivan Tchakarov
08/138: Tanzania's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: Niko Hobdari
08/137: Fiscal Positions in Latin America:Have They Really Improved?: Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Ivanna Hollar
08/136: Government Spending on Health Care and Education in Croatia: Efficiency and Reform Options: Victoria Gunnarsson and Etibar Jafarov
08/135: Central Bank Involvement in Banking Crises in Latin America: JÃ¡come, Luis
08/134: Trade Sensitivity to Exchange Rates in the Context of Intra-Industry Trade: Yoko Oguro, Kyoji Fukao and Yougesh Khatri
08/133: Crude Oil Prices: Trends and Forecast: Noureddine Krichene
08/132: Why Do Countries Peg the Way They Peg?The Determinants of Anchor Currency Choice: Nienke Oomes and Christopher M. Meissner
08/131: Challenges to Monetary Policy from Financial Globalization: The Case of India: A. Prasad, Charles Kramer and Poirson, HÃ©lÃ¨ne
08/130: Recent Inflationary Trends in World Commodities Markets: Noureddine Krichene
08/129: Tax Administration Reform and Fiscal Adjustment:The Case of Indonesia(2001-07): John Brondolo, Frank Bosch, Eric Le Borgne and Carlos Silvani
08/128: Chile: Trade Performance,Trade Liberalization, and Competitiveness: Brieuc Monfort
08/126: Financial Integration and Risk-Adjusted Growth Opportunities: Iryna Ivaschenko and Gianni De NicolÃ³,
08/125: Tax and Pension Reform in the Czech Republic-Implications for Growth and Debt Sustainability: Dennis Botman and Anita Tuladhar
08/124: Trends in Italy's Nonprice Competitiveness: Bogdan Lissovolik
08/123: Mexico's Integration into NAFTA Markets: A View from Sectoral Real Exchange Rates and Transaction Costs: Luciana Juvenal and Rodolphe Blavy
08/122: Government Size and Output Volatility: Should We Forsake Automatic Stabilization?: Jean Pisani-Ferry, Xavier Debrun and Andre Sapir
08/121: Fiscal and Monetary Anchors for Price Stability: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa: International Monetary Fund
08/119: Central Bank Independence and Transparency: Evolution and Effectiveness: Christopher Crowe and Ellen E. Meade
08/118: The Choice of Monetary and Exchange Rate Arrangements for a Small, Open, Low-Income Economy: The Case of Sao Tome and Principe: Jian-Ye Wang, Nisreen Farhan, Amar Shanghavi, Ronci, MÃ¡rcio and Misa Takebe
08/117: Calculating Sustainable Non-mineral Balances as Benchmarks for Fiscal Policy: The Case of Botswana: Jens Richard Clausen
08/116: Accounting Challenges for Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs) in Developing Countries: Seth Terkper
08/115: Impact of Government Expenditure on Growth: The Case of Azerbaijan: International Monetary Fund
08/114: Do IMF Programs Improve Economic Governance?: Jiro Honda
08/113: International Spillover of Labor Market Reforms: Mai Dao
08/112: Competitiveness in the Southern Euro Area: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain: Bogdan Lissovolik, Julio Escolano, Stefania Fabrizio, Werner Schule, Herman Bennett, Stephen Tokarick, Yuan Xiao, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Eva Gutierrez and Iryna Ivaschenko
08/111: Fiscal Coverage in the Countries of the Middle East and Central Asia: Current Situation and a Way Forward: Daria Zakharova
08/110: Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates for Armenia and Georgia: Shuang Ding and Omar Al Shehabi

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