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11/140: Euro Area Export Performance and Competitiveness

Jarkko Turunen, Richard Harmsen and Tamim A Bayoumi

11/139: Protectionist Responses to the Crisis: Damage Observed in Product-Level Trade

Bradley McDonald and Christian Henn

11/138: Global and Regional Spillovers to GCC Equity Markets

Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Oral H. Williams

11/137: ASEAN5 Bond Market Development: Where Does it Stand? Where is it Going?

Mahmood Pradhan, Shanaka Peiris, Mangal Goswami, Dulani Seneviratne, Joshua Felman, Andreas A. Jobst and Simon Gray

11/136: Global Liquidity: Availability of Funds for Safe and Risky Assets

Akito Matsumoto

11/135: Developing ASEAN5 Bond Markets: What Still Needs to be Done?

Simon Gray, Andreas A. Jobst, Joshua Felman and Ana Carvajal

11/134: Sovereign Spreads and Contagion Risks in Asia

Filiz D. Unsal and Carlos Caceres

11/133: Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: The Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions

International Monetary Fund

11/132: The Development of Local Debt Markets in Asia

Mangal Goswami and Sunil Sharma

11/131: The Distributive Effects of Land Title on Labor Supply: Evidence from Brazil

Mauricio Moura, Caio Piza and Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro

11/130: Risky Bank Lending and Optimal Capital Adequacy Regulation

Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof

11/129: Official Dollarization as a Monetary Regime: Its Effects on El Salvador

Andrew Swiston

11/128: A New Action-based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation

Andrea Pescatori, Daniel Leigh, Jaime Guajardo and Pete Devries

11/127: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Yearbook - Maps of Government for 74 Countries

International Monetary Fund

11/126: Measuring Fiscal Decentralization - Exploring the IMF's Databases

International Monetary Fund

11/125: Information Rigidity in Growth Forecasts: Some Cross-Country Evidence

Natalia Tamirisa, Prakash Loungani and Herman O. Stekler

11/124: Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives: An Application to Mauritius

Ian Parry

11/123: Sectoral Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and External Vulnerability in Eastern Europe

Yuko Kinoshita

11/122: Precautionary Savings and Global Imbalances in World General Equilibrium

Damiano Sandri

11/121: Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession

Sandeep Mazumder and Laurence Ball

11/120: From West to East: Estimating External Spillovers to Australia and New Zealand

Yan Sun

11/119: Bank Behavior in Response to Basel III: A Cross-Country Analysis

Thomas F. Cosimano and Dalia S. Hakura

11/118: Credit Market Imperfection and Sectoral Asymmetry of Chinese Business Cycle

Yuanyan Zhang

11/117: Search Frictions and the Labor Wedge

Murat Tasci and Andrea Pescatori

11/116: In Which Exchange Rate Models Do Forecasters Trust?

Jaewoo Lee, H. Takizawa and David Hauner

11/115: Impact of the Global Crisis on Banking Sector Soundness in Asian Low-Income Countries

International Monetary Fund

11/114: Causes of Asset Shortages in Emerging Markets

Jiaqian Chen and Patrick A. Imam

11/113: On Brazil's Term Structure: Stylized Facts and Analysis of Macroeconomic Interactions

Rodrigo Cabral, Richard Munclinger, Luiz Alves and Marco Rodriguez Waldo

11/112: Words vs. Deeds: What Really Matters?

Mahvash Saeed Qureshi, Atish Ghosh and Charalambos G. Tsangarides

11/111: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Systemically-Important Financial Institutions in a Macro-financial Linkages Framework

Tao Sun

11/110: New Shocks and Asset Price Volatility in General Equilibrium

Alessandro Rebucci, Akito Matsumoto, Pietro Cova and Massimiliano Pisani

11/109: Real Unit Labor Costs Differentials in EMU: How Big, How Benign and How Reversible?

International Monetary Fund

11/108: Estimating a Small Open-Economy Model for Egypt: Spillovers, Inflation Dynamics, and Implications for Monetary Policy

International Monetary Fund

11/107: Identifying Fiscal Policy Transmission in Stochastic Debt Forecasts

Kei Kawakami and Rafael Romeu

11/106: New Evidence on Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment

Jinzhu Chen, Bharat Trehan, Prakash Kannan and Prakash Loungani

11/105: Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?

Estevão, Marcello and Evridiki Tsounta

11/104: Ghana: Will it be Gifted or Will it be Cursed?

Burcu Aydin

11/103: Macroeconomic Costs of Higher Bank Capital and Liquidity Requirements

Scott Roger and Jan Vlcek

11/102: Oil Spill(over)s: Linkages in Petroleum Product Pricing Policies in West African Countries

Mohamed El Harrak, Antonio C. David, Lorraine Ocampos and Marshall Mills

11/101: Development of Financial Markets in Central Europe: the Case of the CE4 Countries

Amat Adarov and Robert Tchaidze

11/100: Assessing Fiscal Stress

Gabriela Dobrescu, Iva Petrova, Nazim Belhocine and Emanuele Baldacci

11/99: Did Export Diversification Soften the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis?

Rafael Romeu and Nelson Costa Neto

11/98: Real-time Forecasts of Economic Activity for Latin American Economies

Philip Liu, Rafael Romeu and Troy D Matheson

11/97: Lessons for Monetary Policy: What Should the Consensus Be?

Otmar Issing

11/96: Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms in Pacific Island Countries

Jonathan Dunn, Matt Davies, Yongzheng Yang, Yiqun Wu and Shengzu Wang

11/95: The Tax Elasticity of Corporate Debt: A Synthesis of Size and Variations

Ruud Aloysius de Mooij

11/94: Measuring Fiscal Vulnerability and Fiscal Stress: A Proposed Set of Indicators

James McHugh, Iva Petrova and Emanuele Baldacci

11/93: Financial Conditions Indexes for the United States and Euro Area

Troy D Matheson

11/92: International Mutual Funds, Capital Flow Volatility, and Contagion-A Survey

R. Gaston Gelos

11/91: How to Deal with Real Estate Booms: Lessons from Country Experiences

Pau Rabanal, Christopher Crowe, Dell'ariccia, Giovanni and Deniz Igan

11/90: Growth from International Capital Flows: The Role of Volatility Regimes

Antu Panini Murshid and Ashoka Mody

11/89: France: Lessons from Past Fiscal Consolidation Plans

Edouard Martin, Irina Yakadina and Irina Tytell

11/88: How Do Business and Financial Cycles Interact?

Marco E. Terrones, Ayhan Kose and Stijn Claessens

11/87: Monetary Transmission in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies: The Cases of Chile, New Zealand, Peru and Uruguay

International Monetary Fund

11/86: Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China's Economic Growth-Implications for Latin America

Yongzhen Yu

11/85: Corporate and Household Debt Distress in Latvia: Strengthening the Incentives for a Market-Based Approach to Debt Resolution

Magnus Saxegaard, Michaela Erbenova and Yan Liu

11/84: The Dynamics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates in the United States in Light of the Financial Crisis of 2007-10

Marco Rodriguez Waldo and Carlos Medeiros

11/83: Next Generation Balance Sheet Stress Testing

Christian Schmieder, Maher Hasan and Claus Puhr

11/82: Fat Tails and their (Un)happy Endings: Correlation Bias and its Implications for Systemic Risk and Prudential Regulation

International Monetary Fund

11/81: Toward Inflation Targeting in Sri Lanka

Ding Ding, Rahul Anand and Shanaka Peiris

11/80: Feeling The Elephant's Weight: The Impact of Côte d'Ivoire's Crisis on WAEMU Trade

Egoumé-Bossogo, Philippe and Ankouvi Nayo

11/79: Mongolia: Measuring the Output Gap

Julia Bersch and Tara M. Sinclair

11/78: Deposit Formation in Georgia

Robert Tchaidze and Salome Tvalodze

11/77: Evidence on Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Networks in the Export Performance of Firms

Luca Antonio Ricci and Federico Trionfetti

11/76: Financial Cycles: What? How? When?

Marco E. Terrones, Ayhan Kose and Stijn Claessens

11/75: Probabilities of Default and the Market Price of Risk in a Distressed Economy

Miguel Segoviano Basurto and Raphael A Espinoza

11/74: A network analysis of global banking:1978-2009

Javier A. Reyes and Camelia Minoiu

11/73: ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries

Kangni KPODAR and Mihasonirina Andrianaivo

11/72: An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: Who Will Pay and How?

Nicoletta Batini, Julia Guerreiro and Giovanni Callegari

11/71: Reconsidering the Role of Food Prices in Inflation

James Walsh

11/70: Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk

Leonardo Martinez, Juan Carlos Hatchondo and Cesar Sosa Padilla

11/69: Fiscal sustainability and the fiscal reaction function for South Africa

Charl Jooste, Alfredo Cuevas, Ian Stuart and Philippe Burger

11/68: Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers: Evidence from the European Debt Crisis

Bertrand Candelon, Amadou N. R. Sy and Rabah Arezki

11/67: Capital Flows to EU New Member States: Does Sector Destination Matter?

Pritha Mitra

11/66: Making OTC Derivatives Safe - A Fresh Look

Manmohan Singh

11/65: Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the Czech Republic

Stephen Matthew Snudden and Vladimir Klyuev

11/64: Reviving the Competitive Storage Model: A Holistic Approach to Food Commodity Prices

Norbert Funke, Weifeng Wu and Yanliang Miao

11/63: Leadership Contestability, Monopolistic Rents and Growth

Roberto Piazza

11/62: Food Prices and Political Instability

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

11/61: How Strong are Fiscal Multipliers in the GCC? An Empirical Investigation

International Monetary Fund

11/60: Imperfect Information and Saving in a Small Open Economy

Agustin Roitman and Christian Daude

11/59: Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability in WAEMU Countries

Kerstin Gerling and Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos

11/58: Creditless Recoveries

International Monetary Fund

11/57: Modeling Inflation in Chad

Tidiane Kinda

11/56: Fiscal Rules in a Volatile World: A Welfare-Based Approach

Jorge Restrepo, Carlos J. García and Evan Tanner

11/55: The Impact of Legislation on Credit Risk - Comparative Evidence From the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany

Philipp Schmieder and Christian Schmieder

11/54: Taxing Financial Transactions: Issues and Evidence

Thornton Matheson

11/53: Evaluating GDP Forecasting Models for Korea

Li Zeng

11/52: How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers?

Ethan Ilzetzki, Enrique G. Mendoza and Végh Gramont, Carlos

11/51: Determinants of Bank Credit in Emerging Market Economies

Vahram Stepanyan and Kai Guo

11/50: Bank Ownership and the Effects of Financial Liberalization: Evidence from India

Poonam Gupta, Kalpana Kochhar and Sanjaya Panth

11/49: Dollarization in Cambodia: Causes and Policy Implications

Nombulelo Duma

11/48: Fiscal Expectations Under the Stability and Growth Pact: Evidence from Survey Data

International Monetary Fund

11/47: Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World

Yishay Yafeh and Stijn Claessens

11/46: Current Account Rebalancing and Real Exchange Rate Adjustment Between the U.S. and Emerging Asia

Damiano Sandri, Pau Rabanal and Méjean, Isabelle

11/45: The Real Effects of Financial Sector Interventions During Crises

Fabian Valencia and Luc Laeven

11/44: Sovereign Credit Ratings and Spreads in Emerging Markets: Does Investment Grade Matter?

International Monetary Fund

11/43: New Indicators for Tracking Growth in Real Time

Troy D Matheson

11/42: Limits of Floating Exchange Rates: the Role of Foreign Currency Debt and Import Structure

Pascal Towbin and Sebastian Weber

11/41: Fiscal Policy during Absorption Cycles

Ferhan Salman and Gabriela Dobrescu