International Finance Discussion Papers

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572: Money, politics and the post-war business cycle

Jon Faust and John Irons

571: Implications of economic interdependence and exchange rate policy on endogenous wage indexation decisions

Jay H. Bryson, Chih-Huan Chen and David VanHoose

570: The reaction of exchange rates and interest rates to news releases

Hali Edison

569: The role of credit in post-stabilization consumption booms

Martina Copelman

568: Hazards in implementing a monetary conditions index

Kari H. Eika, Neil Ericsson and Ragnar Nymoen

567: Financial innovation and the speed of adjustment of money demand: evidence from Bolivia, Israel, and Venezuela

Martina Copelman

566: Long-term evidence on the Tobin and Fisher effects: a new approach

Shaghil Ahmed and John Rogers

565: Some evidence on the efficacy of the UK inflation targeting regime: an out-of-sample forecast approach

Chan Guk Huh

564: The use of the parallel market rate as a guide to setting the official exchange rate

Nita Ghei and Steven B. Kamin

563: Country fund discounts and the Mexican crisis of December 1994: did local residents turn pessimistic before international investors?

Jeffrey Frankel and Sergio Schmukler

562: Eastern European export performance during transition

Simona Boata and Nathan Sheets

561: Inflation-adjusted potential output

Jane Haltmaier

560: The management of financial risks at German nonfinancial firms: the case of Metallgesellschaft

Allen B. Frankel and David E. Palmer

559: Broad money demand and financial liberalization in Greece

Neil Ericsson and Sunil Sharma

558: Stockholding behavior of U.S. households: evidence from the 1983-89 Survey of Consumer Finances

Carol C. Bertaut

557: Firm size and the impact of profit-margin uncertainty on investment: do financing constraints play a role?

Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani

556: Regulation and the cost of capital in Japan: a case study

John Ammer and Michael S. Gibson

555: The sovereignty option: the Quebec referendum and market views on the Canadian dollar

Michael P. Leahy and Charles Thomas

554: Real exchange rates and inflation in exchange-rate based stabilizations: an empirical examination

Steven B. Kamin

553: Macroeconomic state variables as determinants of asset price covariances

John Ammer

552: The Tequila effect: theory and evidence from Argentina

Martín Uribe

551: The accumulation of human capital: alternative methods and why they matter

Murat Iyigun and Ann Owen

550: Alternatives in human capital accumulation: implications for economic growth

Murat Iyigun and Ann Owen

549: More evidence on the link between bank health and investment in Japan

Michael S. Gibson

548: The syndrome of exchange-rate-based stabilizations and the uncertain duration of currency pegs

Enrique Mendoza and Martín Uribe

547: German unification: what have we learned from multi-country models?

Joseph Gagnon, Paul Masson and Warwick McKibbin

546: Returns to scale in U.S. production: estimates and implications

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

545: Mexico's balance-of-payments crisis: a chronicle of death foretold

Guillermo Calvo and Enrique Mendoza

544: The twin crises: the causes of banking and balance-of-payments problems

Graciela Kaminsky and Carmen Reinhart

543: High real interest rates in the aftermath of disinflation: is it a lack of credibility?

Graciela Kaminsky and Leonardo Leiderman

542: Precautionary portfolio behavior from a life-cycle perspective

Carol C. Bertaut and Michael Haliassos

541: Using options prices to infer PDF'S for asset prices: an application to oil prices during the Gulf crisis

Will Melick and Charles Thomas

540: Monetary policy in the end-game to exchange-rate based stabilizations: the case of Mexico

Steven B. Kamin and John Rogers

539: Comparing the welfare costs and the initial dynamics of alternative temporary stabilization policies

Martín Uribe

538: Long memory in inflation expectations: evidence from international expectations

Joseph Gagnon

537: Using measures of expectations to identify the effects of a monetary policy shock

Allan Brunner

536: Regime switching in the dynamic relationship between the federal funds rate and innovations in nonborrowed reserves

Chan Guk Huh

535: The risks and implications of external financial shocks: lessons from Mexico

Edwin Truman

534: Currency crashes in emerging markets: an empirical treatment

Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose

533: Regional patterns in the law of one price: the roles of geography vs. currencies

Charles Engel and John Rogers

532: Aggregate productivity and the productivity of aggregates

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

531: A century of trade elasticities for Canada, Japan, and the United States

Jaime R. Marquez

530: Modelling inflation in Australia

Gordon De Brouwer and Neil Ericsson

529: Hyperinflation and stabilization: Cagan revisited

Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang

528: On the inverse of the covariance matrix in portfolio analysis

Guy V. G. Stevens

527: International comparisons of the levels of unit labor costs in manufacturing

Peter Hooper and Elizabeth Vranlovich

526: Uncertainty, instrument choice, and the uniqueness of Nash equilibrium: microeconomic and macroeconomic examples

Dale Henderson and Ning Zhu

525: Targeting inflation in the 1990s: recent challenges

Richard T. Freeman and Jonathan Willis

524: Economic development and intergenerational economic mobility

Murat Iyigun

523: Human capital accumulation, fertility and growth: a re-analysis

Murat Iyigun