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2007: Prospects for the Oil-importing Countries of the Caribbean

Ramón Espinasa

2006: Revisiting Economic Growth in Colombia: A Microeconomic Perspective

Arturo Harker Roa and Marcela Meléndez

2005: Growth Diagnostics: Perú

Ricardo Hausmann and Bailey Klinger

2004: Ecuador: Fiscal Stabilization Funds and Prospects

Simon Cueva

2003: La economía política del proceso presupuestal: El caso de Colombia

Mauricio Cardenas, Carolina Mejía and Mauricio Olivera

2002: The Political Economy of the Budget Process in the Andean Region: The Case of Venezuela

Abelardo Daza, José Manuel Puente, Alesia Rodríguez and Germán Rios

2001: La Economía Política del Proceso Presupuestario: El caso peruano

José Valderrama, Luis Carranza and Jorge Chavez

2000: The Political Economy of the Budget Process: The Case of Ecuador

Andrés Mejía Acosta, M. Caridad Araujo and Vicente Albornoz

1005: Productive Development Policies and Supporting Institutions in Latin America and The Caribbean

Alberto Melo and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

1004: La competitividad de Perú después de la década de reforma: Diagnóstico y propuestas

Alberto Melo

1003: Designing Competitive Wholesale Electricity Markets for Latin American Countries

Frank A. Wolak

1002: Colombia: Los problemas de competitividad de un país en conflicto

Alberto Melo

1001: Regulation and Competition in Mobile Telephony in Latin America

Carlos Lapuerta, Juan Benavides and Sonia Jorge

1000: La competitividad de Ecuador en la era de la dolarización: diagnóstico y propuestas

Alberto Melo

IDB-TN-576: Integrated Template for Debt Sustainability Analysis: Version 2.0, Instruction Manual, Revised Version

Eduardo Borensztein, Eduardo Cavallo, Paula Cifuentes and Oscar Valencia

IDB-TN-541: Development of a Procedure for the Construction of GEI Emission Abatement Curves Incorporating the Uncertainty Associated to the Main Mitigation Variables

Jacques Clerc, Manuel Diaz and Bruno Campos

IDB-TN-508: The Brazilian Electoral Panel Studies (BEPS): Brazilian Public Opinion in the 2010 Presidential Elections

Barry Ames, Fabiana Machado, Lucio Renno, David Samuels, Amy Smith and Cesar Zucco

IDB-WP-487: Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002-2012

Miguel Urrutia, Franz Hamann and Marc Hofstetter

IDB-WP-486: Towards a “New” Inflation Targeting Framework: The Case of Uruguay

Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Martin Sola

IDB-WP-484: Central Bank Liquidity Management and “Unconventional” Monetary Policies

Javier García-Cicco and Enrique Kawamura

IDB-WP-483: Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking

Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, Cemile Yavas and Veronica Frisancho

IDB-WP-481: Long-Term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico

Jorge Agüero

IDB-WP-477: Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru

Julian Cristia, Alejo Czerwonko and Pablo Garofalo

IDB-WP-476: The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students’ Digital Skills in Peru

German Bet, Julian Cristia and Pablo Ibarraran

IDB-WP-473: Inflation Targeting in Latin America

Adolfo Barajas, Roberto Steiner, Leonardo Villar and César Pabón

IDB-WP-472: Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the Pampas: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Lucio Castro and Carlos Scartascini

IDB-WP-471: On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira

IDB-WP-469: Re-estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance

Juan Munoz-Morales

IDB-WP-468: The Effects of Air Pollution on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio Vela

IDB-WP-467: Are Environmentally Related Taxes Effective?

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio Vela

IDB-WP-466: Adapting to Climate Change: Long-Term Effects of Drought on Local Labor Markets

Paulo Bastos, Matias Busso and Sebastian Miller

IDB-WP-463: Preschool Education in Brazil: Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Paulo Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

IDB-WP-462: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? School Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America

Marina Bassi, Matias Busso and Juan Munoz-Morales

IDB-WP-461: Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee

Ricardo Monge-Gonzalez and Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Alvarez

IDB-WP-459: Productive Development Policies and Innovation Spillovers through Labor Force Mobility: The Case of the Brazilian Innovation Support System

Sergio Kannebley, Bruno César Araújo, Alessandro Maffioli and Rodolfo Stucchi

IDB-WP-457: Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy

Diego Focanti, Mark Hallerberg and Carlos Scartascini

IDB-WP-455: Politics under the Weather: Droughts, Parties and Electoral Outcomes

Paulo Bastos and Sebastian Miller

IDB-WP-450: Intensity-Based Permit Quotas and the Business Cycle: Does Flexibility Pay Off?

Olli-Pekka Kuuselaa, Gregory S. Amacher and Kwok Ping Tsang

IDB-WP-445: Bank Linkages and International Trade

Galina Hale, Christopher Candelaria, Julian Caballero and Sergey Borisov

IDB-WP-444: Commodity Price Booms and Breaks: Detection, Magnitude and Implications for Developing Countries

Rodrigo Mariscal and Andrew Powell

IDB-WP-443: Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures` Ideological Positions?

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio Vela

IDB-WP-433: Measuring the Political Economy of Tax Lawmaking: A Methodology and Evidence from Argentina

Javier Alvaredo, Alejandro Bonvecchi, Ernesto Calvo, Maximiliano Castillo and Juan Carlos Gomez

IDB-WP-430: A New Taxonomy of Sudden Stops: Which Sudden Stops Should Countries Be Most Concerned About?

Eduardo Cavallo, Andrew Powell, Mathieu Pedemonte and Pilar Tavella

IDB-WP-428: Can Institutions Cure Clientelism? Assessing the Impact of the Australian Ballot in Brazil

Daniel Gingerich

IDB-WP-427: The Economic Effects of Constitutions: Do Budget Institutions Make Forms of Government More Alike?

Martin Ardanaz and Carlos Scartascini

IDB-WP-426: Economic Consequences of Drug-Trafficking Violence in Mexico

Gabriela Calderón, Gustavo Robles and Beatriz Magaloni

IDB-WP-423: The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Eduardo Lora

IDB-WP-420: The Effects of Punishment of Crime in Colombia on Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Human Capital Formation

Arlen Guarin, Carlos Medina and Jorge Andres Tamayo

IDB-WP-418: Institutions for Effective Business-Government Collaboration: Micro Mechanisms and Macro Politics in Latin America

Ben Ross Schneider

IDB-WP-417: Optimal Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change in Small Environmental Economies

Omar Chisari, Sebastian Galiani and Sebastian Miller

IDB-WP-416: The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner and Marco Manacorda

IDB-WP-415: The Impact of the Sense of Security from Crime on Residential Property Values in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas

David M. Vetter, Kaizô I. Beltrão and Rosa M. R. Massena

IDB-WP-414: Causal Estimates of the Intangible Costs of Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jorge Agüero

IDB-WP-413: Crime, Punishment, and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Colombian Adolescents

Ana Ibáñez, Catherine Rodriguez and David Zarruk

IDB-WP-411: Capital Flows: Issues and Policies

Peter Montiel

IDB-WP-408: The cost of crime in Uruguay

Diego Aboal, Jorge Campanella and Bibiana Lanzilotta

IDB-WP-407: Ideology and Taxation in Latin America

Ernesto Stein and Lorena Caro

IDB-WP-404: Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil

Pablo D`Erasmo

IDB-WP-400: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers, Nominal Rigidities and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

Sergio Ocampo

IDB-WP-398: Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru

Eduardo Moron, Edgar Salgado and Cristhian Seminario

IDB-WP-397: Decentralization and Accountability: The Curse of Local Underdevelopment

Fabiana Machado

IDB-WP-396: Firm Size and Credit in Argentina

Sebastian Auguste, Ricardo Bebczuk and Gabriel Sanchez

IDB-WP-395: Small Is Not Beautiful: Firm-Level Evidence of the Link between Credit, Firm Size and Competitiveness in Colombia

Arturo Galindo and Marcela Meléndez

IDB-WP-394: The Pharmacological Channel Revisited: Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogota

Joao De Mello, Daniel Mejia and Lucia Suarez

IDB-WP-393: Capital Controls or Real Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric Young

IDB-WP-392: Credit Constraints, Sector Informality and Firm Investments: Evidence from a Panel of Uruguayan Firms

Nestor Gandelman and Alejandro Rasteletti

IDB-WP-391: Weather and Welfare: Health and Agricultural Impacts of Climate Extremes, Evidence from Mexico

Roberto Guerrero Compeán

IDB-WP-390: Equilibrium Unemployment during Financial Crises

Andrés Fernández Martin and Juan Herreño

IDB-WP-384: Is Inflation Targeting Still on Target? The Recent Experience of Latin America

Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andres Velasco

IDB-WP-369: The Unemployment Subsidy Program in Colombia: An Assessment

Carlos Medina, Jairo Nunez and Jorge Andres Tamayo

IDB-WP-237: Are We All Playing the Same Game? The Economic Effects of Constitutions Depend on the Degree of Institutionalization

German Caruso, Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

IDB-PB-210: Government Capabilities in Latin America: Why They Are So Important, What We Know about Them, and What to Do Next

Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

IDB-PB-182: How Can Latin America Help the World to Cope with Climate Change?

Sebastian Galiani, Manuel Puente and Federico Weinschelbaum

IDB-BK-124: Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Step Up the Social Ladder?

Eduardo Lora and Francesca Castellani