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3202: Governance and bank valuation
Gerard Caprio , Luc Laeven and Ross Levine
3201: A literature review on the use of expert opinion in probabilistic risk analysis
Fumika Ouchi
3200: When is external debt sustainable?
Aart Kraay and Vikram Nehru
3199: On the measurement of solvency of insurance companies: recent developments that will alter methodsadopted in emerging markets
Craig Thorburn
3198: Market access for sale: Latin America's lobbying for U.S. tariff preferences
Hiau Looi Kee , Marcelo Olarreaga and Peri Agostinho da Silva
3197: Building and running general equilibrium models in EViews
Essama-Nssah
3196: Technological asymmetry among foreign investors and mode of entry
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Kamal Saggi
3195: Government procurement: Market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules
Simon John Evenett and Bernard Hoekman
3194: Law and firms'access to finance
Thorsten Beck , Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Ross Levine
3193: Quantifying the impact of services liberalization in a developing country
Denise Eby Konan and Keith E. Maskus
3192: Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions - feedback and macroeconomic effects
Cesar A. Calderon , Norman V. Loayza and Luis Servén
3191: Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country - Madagascar 2001
Michael Lokshin , Nithin Umapathi and Stefano Paternostro
3190: On the quantity and quality of knowledge - the impact of openness and foreign research and development on North-North and North-South technology spillovers
Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
3189: Do market pressures induce economic efficiency ? The case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994-2001
Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec
3188: Trading market access for competition policy enforcement
Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
3187: To serve the community or oneself - the public servant's dilemma
Abigail Barr , Magnus Lindelow and Pieter M. Serneels
3186: Donor fragmentation and bureaucratic quality in aid recipients
Stephen Knack and Aminur Rahman
3185: Does infrastructure reform work for the poor? A case study from Guatemala
Vivien Foster and Maria Caridad Araujo
3184: Volatility and growth
Viktoria V. Hnatkovska and Norman V. Loayza
3183: Conflicts of interest in self-regulation: can demutualized exchanges successfully manage them?
John W. Carson
3182: The International Finance Corporation's MBA survey: how developing country firms rate local business school training
Azam Chaudhry
3181: Temporary sequestration credits: an instrument for carbon bears
Kenneth M. Chomitz and Franck Michel LECOCQ
3180: Equitable provision of long-term public goods: the role of negotiation mandates
Franck Michel LECOCQ and Jean-Charles Hourcade
3179: International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries
Richard H. Adams and John Page
3178: Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence
Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine
3177: Does infrastructure reform work for the poor? A case study on the cities of La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia
Vivien Foster and Osvaldo Irusta
3176: Location decisions and nongovernmental organization motivation: evidence from rural Bangladesh
Anna Fruttero and Varun Gauri
3175: The use of"asset swaps"by institutional investors in South Africa
Dimitri Vittas
3174: Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil
François J. Bourguignon , Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Marta Menendez
3173: Distributional effects of crises: the role of financial transfers
Marina Halac and Sergio Luis Schmukler
3172: Supply-side school improvement and the learning achievement of the poorest children in indigenous and rural schools - the case of PARE
Vicente Paqueo and Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
3171: On the use of transparent formulae to allocate federal education transfers
Vicente Paqueo , Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and Suhas Parandekar
3170: Direct support to private firms - evidence on effectiveness
Geeta Batra and Syed Mahmood
3169: Is inequality in Africa really different ?
Branko Milanovic
3168: Banking in developing countries in the 1990s
James A. Hanson
3167: Combining insurance, contingent debt, and self-retention in an optimal corporate risk financing strategy
Eugene Gurenko and Olivier Mahul
3166: In measuring aggregate"social efficiency"
Martin Ravallion
3165: Social protection in a crisis - Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
Emanuela Galasso and Martin Ravallion
3164: Democracy, public expenditures, and the poor
Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani
3163: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The role of infrastructure
Marianne Fay , Danny Leipziger , Quentin Wodon and Tito Yepes
3162: The political economy of public spending on education, inequality, and growth
Mark Gradstein
3161: Liquidity needs and vulnerability to financial udnerdevelopment
Claudio E. Raddatz
3160: Monetary policy and sectoral shocks: did the Federal Reserve react properly to the high-tech crisis?
Claudio E. Raddatz and Roberto Rigobon
3159: Does judicial efficiency lower the cost of credit
Luc Laeven and Giovanni Majnoni
3158: Restoring economic growth in Argentina
William R. Cline
3157: On the utility consistency of poverty lines
Martin Ravallion and Michael Lokshin
3156: Tariff evasion and customs corruption: does pre-shipment inspection help?
Olivier Cadot , José Ansón and Marcelo Olarreaga
3155: Evaluating the impact of infrastructure rehabilitation projects on household welfare in rural Georgia
Michael Lokshin and Ruslan G. Yemtsov
3154: The twin effects of globalization
Francesco Daveri , Paolo Manasse and Danilo Serra
3153: Gender and poverty: a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes
Michael Lokshin and Thomas A. Mroz
3152: The long-run economic costs of AIDS: theory and an application to South Africa
Clive Laurence George Bell , Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach
3151: A multi-output cost function for port terminals: some guidelines for regulation
Lourdes Trujillo , Sergio Jara-Diaz and Beatriz Tovar
3150: Income-related biases in international trade: what do trademark registration data tell us?
Carsten Fink , Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu
3149: Rules of thumb for evaluating preferential trading arrangements: evidence from computable general equilibrium assessments
Glenn W. Harrison , Thomas F. Rutherford and David Gerald Tarr
3148: Gender wage differentials in Brazil: trends over a turbulent era
Arabsheibani, Reza (Gholamreza) , Francisco Galrao Carneiro and Andrew Henley
3147: Human capital and earnings inequality in Brazil, 1988-98: quantile regression evidence
Arabsheibani, Reza (Gholamreza) , Francisco Galrao Carneiro and Andrew Henley
3146: The price of inconvertible deposits - the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis
Eduardo Levy Yeyati , Sergio Luis Schmukler and Neeltje Van Horen
3145: Alternative paths to structural adjustment in Uzbekistan in a three-gap framework
Thilak Ranaweera
3144: Market disequilibria and inflation in Uzbekistan, 1994-2000
Thilak Ranaweera
3143: Who benefits from labor market regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Claudio E. Montenegro and Carmen Pages
3142: Credit reporting and financing constraints
Inessa Love and Nataliya Mylenko
3141: Poverty in India during the1990s - a regional perspective
Yoko Kijima and Peter Frederik Lanjouw
3140: Raising the quality of secondary education in East Asia
Kaoru Nabeshima
3139: Contracting models of the Phillips curve - empirical estimates for Middle-income countries
Pierre-Richard Agénor and Nihal Bayraktar
3138: Fiscal federalism and regional growth: evidence from the Russian Federation in the 1990s
Raj M. Desai , Lev Freinkman and Itzhak Goldberg
3137: Using survey data to assess the distributional effects of trade policy
Guido Gustavo Porto
3136: Legal institutions and financial development
Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine
3135: Trade reforms, market access, and poverty in Argentina
Guido Gustavo Porto
3134: Institutional reform and the judiciary: which way forward?
Roumeen Islam
3133: Emerging trends in WTO dispute settlement: back to the GATT?
Peter Holmes , Jim Rollo and Alasdair R. Young
3132: Regional integration and technology diffusion: the case of the North America free trade agreement
Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
3131: Social sector expenditures and rainy-day funds
Christian Y. Gonzalez and Vicente B. Paqueo
3130: The role of advocacy in competition policy: the case of the Argentine gasoline market
Tomas Serebrisky
3129: Price caps, efficiency payoffs, and infrastructure contract renegotiation in Latin America
Antonio Estache , Jose-Luis Guasch and Lourdes Trujillo
3128: Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia
Takashi Yamano , Harold Alderman and Luc Christiaensen
3127: Small and medium enterprises across the globe: a new database
Meghana Ayyagari , Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt
3126: Public disclosure of environmental violations in the Republic of Korea
Jong Ho Long , Benoit Laplante and Craig Michael Meisner
3125: Economic analysis of health care utilization and perceived illness; ethnicity and other factors
Vicente B. Paqueo and Christian Y. Gonzalez
3124: The impact of structural reforms on poverty: a simple methodology with extensions
Neil McCulloch
3123: Production and cost functions and their application to the port sector: a literature survey
Beatrice Tovar , Sergio Jara-Diaz and Lourdes Trujillo
3122: Individual attitudes toward corruption: do social effects matter?
Roberta Gatti , Stefano Paternostro and Jamele Rigolini
3121: Do bilateral investment treaties attract foreign direct investment? Only a bit - and they could bite
Mary Hallward-Driemeier
3120: Land rights and economic development: evidence from Vietnam
Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
3119: Evaluating the impact of conditional cash transfer programs: lessons from Latin America
Laura B. Rawlings and Gloria M. Rubio
3118: To share or not to share: does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment?
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu
3117: Policy research on migration and development
David Ellerman
3116: Dollarization of the banking system: good or bad?
Gianni De Nicolo , Patrick Honohan and Alain Ize
3115: Integrating housing wealth into the social safety net: the elderly in Moscow
Robert Michael Buckley , Kim Cartwright , Raymond Struyk and Edward Szymanoski
3114: The dynamics of foreign bank ownership - evidence from Hungary
Giovanni Majnoni , Rashmi Shankar and Eva Varhegyi
3113: What drives bank competition? some international evidence
Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven
3112: On the timing of marriage, cattle, and weather shocks in rural Zimbabwe
Johannes Hoogeveen , Bas van der Klaauw and Gijsbert Van Lomwel
3111: International trade and wage discrimination: evidence from East Asia
Gunseli Berik , Yana Van der Meulen Rodgers and Joseph E. Zveglich
3110: Governance of public pension funds: lessons from corporate governance and international evidence
David Hess and Gregorio Impavido
3109: The impact of China's WTO accession on East Asia
Elena Ivanova Ianchovichina and Terrie L. Walmsley
3108: Stabilization and association process in the Banlkans: integration options and their assessment
Bartlomiej Kaminski and Manuel de la Rocha
3107: More favorable and differential treatment of developing countries: toward a new approach in the World Trade Organization
Bernard Hoekman , Constantine Michalopoulos and L. Alan Winters
3106: Government matters III: governance indicators for 1996-2002
Daniel Kaufmann , Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi
3105: Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: an international analysis of community banking and economic performance
Allen N. Berger , Iftekhar Hasan and Leora F. Klapper
3104: Does strict employment protection discourage job creation? Evidence from Croatia
Jan Rutkowski
3103: Ownership structure and initial public offerings
Reena Aggarwal and Leora F. Klapper