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01/196: An Unbiased Appraisal of Purchasing Power Parity

Christopher John McDermott and Paul Cashin

01/195: Fiscal Expenditure Policy and Non-Oil Economic Growth: Evidence from GCC Countries

Qing Wang and Ugo Fasano-Filho

01/194: Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices: Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?

Dalia S. Hakura and Ehsan U. Choudhri

01/193: Stock Market Liberalizations: Financial and Macroeconomic Implications

Norbert Funke and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

01/192: Capital Flows and Their Macroeconomic Effects in India

Renu Kohli

01/191: Foreign Currency Credit Ratings for Emerging Market Economies

Roberto Perrelli and Christian Mulder

01/190: Exchange Rates and Capital Flows

Robin Brooks, Sløk, Torsten, Manmohan Kumar and Hali Edison

01/189: Speculative Attacks in the Asian Crisis

Zhiwei Zhang

01/188: Measuring Statistical Capacity Building: A Logical Framework Approach

Thomas Morrison and Sarmad Khawaja

01/187: The Effects of Capital Controls on Exchange Rate Volatility and Output

Christiane Nickel, Günter Schmidt, Georg Stadtmann and Michael Frenkel

01/186: The Zero Interest Rate Floor (ZIF) and its Implications for Monetary Policy in Japan

Douglas Michael Laxton and Ben Hunt

01/185: Hedging Government Oil Price Risk

James Daniel

01/184: Implications of Globalization for Monetary Policy

Helmut Wagner

01/183: Manuals on Macroeconomic Statistics: A Stocktaking to Guide Future Work

Carol Carson and Laliberté, Lucie

01/182: An Attempt to Profile the Finances of China's Enterprise Sector

Cem Karacadag and Paul Heytens

01/181: Tax Incentives in The Philippines: A Regional Perspective

Nigel Chalk

01/180: A Simple Measure of the intensity of Capital Controls

Francis Warnock and Hali Edison

01/179: Euro Area Money Demand: Measuring the Opportunity Costs Appropriately

Joaquim Levy, Alessandro Calza and Dieter Gerdesmeier

01/178: Is Fiscal Policy Coordination in EMU Desirable?

Roel Maria Wilhelmus Jozef Beetsma, Xavier Debrun and Franc Klaassen

01/177: Monetary Policy and Corporate Liquid Asset Demand

Woon Gyu Choi and Yungsan Kim

01/176: The Art of Making Everybody Happy: How to Prevent a Secession

Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber

01/175: Determinants of, and the Relation Between, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: A Summary of the Recent Literature

Ewe-Ghee Lim

01/174: The Law of One Price Over 700 Years

Kenneth S Rogoff, Kenneth A. Froot and Michael Kim

01/173: Economic Data Dissemination: What Influences Country Performance On Frequency and Timiliness?

Agça, Mehmet and Peter Allum

01/172: Short-and Long-Term Poverty and Social Policy in a 'Snakes and Ladders' Model of Growth

Alfredo Cuevas

01/171: Key Features of Australian Business Cycles

Paul Cashin and Sam Ouliaris

01/170: Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Policy in Five Asian Countries: Filling in the 'Hollow Middle'?

Hernández, Leonardo and Peter J. Montiel

01/169: The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia

Gonzalo Pastor and Tatiana Damjanovic

01/168: Inflation Dynamics in Madagascar, 1971-2000

Emilio Sacerdoti and Yuan Xiao

01/167: How Volatile and Unpredictable Are Aid Flows, and What Are the Policy Implications?

A. Javier Hamann and Ales Bulir

01/166: Inflation Targeting and the Unemployment-Inflation Trade-off

Chorng-Huey Wong, Eric V. Clifton and H. Leon

01/165: Emerging Market Bond Spreads and Sovereign Credit Ratings: Reconciling Market Views with Economic Fundamentals

Amadou N. R. Sy

01/164: Private Costs and Public Infrastructure: The Mexican Case

Russell Murphy and Andrew Feltenstein

01/163: Trade in the Mashreq: An Empirical Examination

Rodolphe Blavy

01/162: Systemic Financial Crises, Balance Sheets, and Model Uncertainity

Melvyn Weeks and Mark Stone

01/161: Inflation Targeting Under Asymmetric Preferences

Francisco J. Ruge-Murcia

01/160: Financial Development and Poverty Alleviation: Issues and Policy Implications for Developing and Transition Countries

Vassili Prokopenko and Paul Holden

01/159: Should Banks Be Narrowed?

Biaggio Bossone

01/158: Corporate Bond Risk and Real Activity: An Empirical Analysis of Yield Spreads and their Systematic Components

Iryna Ivaschenko and Jorge Chan-Lau

01/157: Cost and Effectiveness of Banking Sector Restructuring in Transition Economies

Edda Zoli

01/156: Econometric Analysis of Discrete Reforms

Alexei Kireyev

01/155: Why Has the Euro Been So Weak?

Guy Meredith

01/154: From Crisis to Recovery in Korea: Strategy, Achievements, and Lessons

Kenneth Kang, Hong Liang, Henry Ma, Anthony Richards, Ajai Chopra and Meral Karasulu

01/153: Economic and Environmental Benefits of Eliminating Log Export Bans-The Case of Costa Rica

Nalin Kishor, Muthukumara Mani and Luis Constantino

01/152: Characterizing Exchange Rate Regimes in Post-Crisis East Asia

Taimur Baig

01/151: Monetary Policy with a Touch of Basel

Ralph Chami and Thomas F. Cosimano

01/150: Trade Integration & Political Turbulence: Environmental Policy Consequences

Muthukumara Mani and Per G. Fredriksson

01/149: Implementation of Monetary Policy and the Central Bank's Balance Sheet

Andrea Schaechter

01/148: What Does South Africa's Pattern of Trade Say About Its Labor Markets?

Arvind Subramanian and Trevor Alleyne

01/147: Asset Securitization and Structured Financing: Future Prospects and Challenges for Countries in Emerging Markets

Lakshman Alles

01/146: Real Convergence to EU Income Levels: Central Europe from 1990 to the Long Term

G. Jiang, Peter Doyle and Louis Kuijs

01/145: Fiscal Rules: Useful Policy Framework or Unnecessary Ornament?

George Kopits

01/144: Debt Relief Under the HIPC Initiative: Context and Outlook for Debt Sustainability and Resource Flow

Doris Ross and Lisandro Abrego

01/142: IMF Conditionality and Country Ownership of Programs

Mohsin Khan and Sunil Sharma

01/141: Financial Sector Evolution in the Central European Economies:Challenges in Supporting Macroeconomic Stability and Sustainable Growth

Nancy Wagner and Dora Iakova

01/140: A Model of Exchange Rate Regime Choice in the Transitional Economies of Central and Eastern Europe

Vladimir Klyuev

01/139: A Primer on Mineral Taxation

Thomas Baunsgaard

01/138: Bank Reform and Bank Efficiency in Pakistan

International Monetary Fund

01/137: International Financial Contagion and the Fund: A Theoretical Framework

Peter Clark and Haizhou Huang

01/136: Rationing Rules and Outcomes: The Experience of Singapore's Vehicle Quota System

Ling Hui Tan

01/135: Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction: Stylized Facts and an Overview of Research

Paul Cashin, Catherine Pattillo, Ratna Sahay and Paolo Mauro

01/134: Pure Contagion and Investors Shifting Risk Appetite: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence

Manmohan Kumar and Avinash Persaud

01/133: Returns to Human Capital & Investment in New Technology

Rodolfo Luzio, Steven Dunaway and Martin Kaufman

01/132: Statistical Treatment of Accrual of Interest on Debt Securities

Chris Wright and John Joisce

01/131: Policies and Prospects in Japan and The Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region

Tim Callen and Warwick J. McKibbin

01/130: The New International Financial Architecture and Africa

Saleh Nsouli and Le Gall, Françoise

01/129: Real Estate Market Developments and Financal Sector Soundness

Paul Hilbers, Lisbeth Zacho and Qin Lei

01/128: Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy of a Developing Country

Paul Robert Masson

01/127: Public Spending on Health Care and Poor

Marijn Verhoeven, Sanjeev Gupta and Erwin R. Tiongson

01/126: Subsidy Reforms and Poverty Alleviation

Chandra Bhambhri and Parkash Chander

01/125: Pension Reform in India

Robert Gillingham and Daniel Kanda

01/124: Convergence of Relative Prices and Inflation in Central and Eastern Europe

Tomas Holub and Cihák, Martin

01/123: Financial System Soundness in the Caribbean: An Initial Assessment

Desiree Cherebin, DeLisle Worrell and Tracy Polius

01/122: Has Inventory Investment Been Liquidity-Constrained? Evidence from U.S. Panel Data

Yungsan Kim and Woon Gyu Choi

01/121: Is Foreign Debt Portfolio Management Efficient in Emerging Economies?

Khaled Hussein

01/120: Czech Koruna and Polish Zloty: Spot and Currency Option Volatility Patterns

Méndez Morales, Armando

01/119: The Impact of U.S. Economic Growth on the Rest of the World: How Much Does it Matter?

Athanasios Vamvakidis and Vivek Arora

01/118: Financial Liberalization, Money Demand, and Inflation in Uganda

Jean-Claude Nachega

01/117: Agents' Preferences, the Equity Premium, and the Consumption-Saving Trade-Off: An Application to French Data

Aude Pommeret and Anne Epaulard

01/116: Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle: Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?

Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Roy

01/115: Multiple Avenues of Intermediation, Corporate Finance and Financial Stability

E Philip Davis

01/114: Institutional Reform in Transition Economies: How Far Have They Come

Beatrice Weder

01/113: The New Basel Capital Accord: The Devil Is in the (Calibration) Details

Paul Kupiec

01/112: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gary Moser and Toshihiro Ichida

01/111: The Asset Allocation of Emerging Market Mutual Funds

Piti Disyatat and R. Gaston Gelos

01/110: Injury Investigations in Anti-Dumping and the Super-Additivity Effect: A Theoretical Explanation

Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagariya

01/109: Short-Term Forecasting: Projecting Italian GDP, One Quarter to Two Years Ahead

Matteo Iacoviello

01/108: Transitional Growth with Increasing Inequality and Financial Deepening

Kenichi Ueda

01/107: Long-Term Capital Movements

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

01/106: The Impact of Public Education Expenditure on Human Capital, Growth, and Poverty in Tanzania and Zambia: A General Equilibrium Approach

Erik Thorbecke and Hong-Sang Jung

01/105: A Statistical Analysis of Banking Performance in the Caribbean Currency Union in the 1990s

V. Juan-Ramon, Ruby Randall and Oral H. Williams

01/104: Reserve Pooling in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and the CFA Franc Zone: A Comparative Analysis

Hazel Selvon, Tracy Polius and Oral H. Williams

01/103: Financial Repression and Exchange Rate Management in Developing Countries: Theory and Empirical Evidence for India

Renu Kohli and Kenneth Kletzer

01/102: Monetary Policy Under EMU: Differences in the Transition Mechanism?

Benedict Clements, Zenon G. Kontolemis and Joaquim Levy

01/101: The IMF and the Ruble Area, 1991-93

J. Odling-Smee and Gonzalo Pastor

01/100: The Two Monetary Approaches to the Balance of Payments: Keynesian and Johnsonian

J. Polak

01/99: Philippines: Preparations for Inflation Targeting

Piyabha Kongsamut

01/98: Big Bang Versus Gradualism in Economic Reforms: An Intertemporal Analysis with an Application to China

Andrew Feltenstein and Saleh Nsouli

01/97: Can Inheritances Alleviate the Fiscal Burden of an Aging Population?

Erik Lueth

01/96: Districting and Government Overspending

Reza Baqir