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519: Central bank independence, inflation and growth in transition economies

Prakash Loungani and Nathan Sheets

518: Alternative approaches to real exchange rates and real interest rates: three up and three down

Hali Edison and Will Melick

517: Product market competition and the impact of price uncertainty on investment: some evidence from U.S. manufacturing industries

Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani

516: Block distributed methods for solving multi-country econometric models

Jon Faust and Ralph W. Tryon

515: Supply-side sources of inflation: evidence from OECD countries

Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel

514: Capital flight from the countries in transition: some theory and empirical evidence

Nathan Sheets

513: Bank lending and economic activity in Japan: did \"financial factors\" contribute to the recent downturn?

Allan Brunner and Steven B. Kamin

512: Evidence on nominal wage rigidity from a panel of U.S. manufacturing industries

Vivek Ghosal and Prakash Loungani

511: Do taxes matter for long-run growth?: Harberger's superneutrality conjecture

Patrick K. Asea, Enrique Mendoza and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferreti

510: Options, sunspots, and the creation of uncertainty

David Bowman and Jon Faust

509: Hysteresis in a simple model of currency substitution

Martín Uribe

508: Import prices and the competing goods effect

Phillip Swagel

507: Supply-side economics in a global economy

Enrique Mendoza and Linda Tesar

506: The Lucas critique in practice: theory without measurement

Neil Ericsson and John Irons

505: Real exchange rate targeting and macroeconomic instability

Martín Uribe

504: Inferences from parametric and non-parametric covariance matrix estimation procedures

Wouter J. Den Haan and Andrew Levin

503: Exchange-rate based inflation stabilization: the initial real effects of credible plans

Martín Uribe

502: Strategic returns to international diversification: an application to the equity markets of Europe, Japan, and North America

John Ammer and Jianping Mei

501: Real exchange rate movements in high inflation countries

John Rogers and Ping Wang

500: Political competition, causal relationships between taxes and spending, and their influence on government size: evidence from state-level data

Diane Lim and John Rogers

499: International stock price spillovers and market liberalization: evidence from Korea, Japan, and the United States

Sang W. Kim and John Rogers

498: How wide is the border?

Charles Engel and John Rogers

497: Constrained suboptimality in economies with limited communication

David Bowman

496: Saving-investment associations and capital mobility on the evidence from Japanese regional data

Robert Dekle

495: Convertibility risk, default risk, and the Mexdollar anomaly

John Rogers

494: Government budget deficits and trade deficits: are present value constraints satisfied in long-term data?

Shaghil Ahmed and John Rogers

493: Real shocks and real exchange rates in really long-term data

John Rogers

492: Loss aversion in a consumption/savings model

David Bowman, Deborah Minehart and Matthew Rabin

491: Terms-of-trade uncertainty and economic growth: are risk indicators significant in growth regressions?

Enrique Mendoza

490: Politics, economics and investment: explaining plant and equipment spending by U.S. direct investors in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Guy V. G. Stevens

489: On the dynamic properties of asymmetric models of real GNP

Allan Brunner

488: A distributed block approach to solving near-block-diagonal systems with an application to a large macroeconometric model

Jon Faust and Ralph W. Tryon

487: Conditional and structural error correction models

Neil Ericsson

486: Bank positions and forecasts of exchange rate movements

Michael P. Leahy

485: Technological progress and endogenous capital depreciation: evidence from the U.S. and Japan

Robert Dekle

484: Are banks market timers or market makers? Explaining foreign exchange trading profits

John Ammer and Allan Brunner

483: Constant returns and small markups in U.S. manufacturing

Susanto Basu and John Fernald

482: The real exchange rate and fiscal policy during the gold standard period: evidence from the United States and Great Britain

Graciela Kaminsky and Michael Klein

481: The debt crisis: lessons of the 1980's for the 1990's

Graciela Kaminsky and Alfredo Pereira

480: Who will join EMU? Impact of the Maastricht convergence criteria on economic policy choice and performance

R. Sean Craig

479: Determinants of the 1991-93 Japanese recession: evidence from a structural model of the Japanese economy

Allan Brunner and Steven B. Kamin

478: On risk, rational expectations, and efficient asset markets

Dara Akbarian and Guy V. G. Stevens

477: Finance and growth: a synthesis and interpretation of the evidence

Alexander Galetovic

476: Trade barriers and trade flows across countries and industries

Jong-Wha Lee and Phillip Swagel

475: The constancy of illusions or the illusion of constancies: income and price elasticities for U.S. imports, 1890-1992

Jaime R. Marquez

474: The dollar as an official reserve currency under EMU

Michael P. Leahy

473: Inflation targeting in the 1990s: the experiences of New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom

John Ammer and Richard T. Freeman

472: International capital mobility in the 1990s

Maurice Obstfeld

471: The effect of changes in reserve requirements on investment and GNP

Prakash Loungani and Mark Rush

470: International economic implications of the end of the Soviet Union

William L. Helkie, David H. Howard and Jaime R. Marquez