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2025/003: Drivers of Inflation in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Maria Atamanchuk, Alejandro Hajdenberg, Dalia Kadissi, Giulio Lisi and Nasir Rao

2025/002: The Scalability of Credit-Enhanced EM Climate Debt: What Role Can Guarantees, Collateralization, Securitizations, and Investment Funds Play?

Peter Lindner, Ananthakrishnan Prasad and Jean-Marie Masse

2025/001: Market Power in the Middle East

Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Ahmed Tohamy and Weining Xin

2024/264: Chinese Housing Market Sentiment Index: A Generative AI Approach and An Application to Monetary Policy Transmission

Kaiji Chen and Yunhui Zhao

2024/263: Trade Policy and Jobs in Vietnam: The Unintended Consequences of US-China Trade Tensions

Lorenzo Rotunno, Sanchari Roy, Anri Sakakibara and Pierre-Louis Vézina

2024/262: Industrial Policy and State Ownership: How Do Commercial Banks Allocate Credit in China?

Ying Xu

2024/261: On Cross-Border Crypto Flows: Measurement Drivers and Policy Implications

Pamela Cardozo, Andrés Fernández, Jerzy Jiang and Felipe Rojas

2024/260: Monetary Policy and Inflation Scares

Christopher Erceg, Jesper Lindé and Mathias Trabandt

2024/259: Industrialization and the Big Push: Theory and Evidence from South Korea

Jaedo Choi and Younghun Shim

2024/258: Chasing the Dream: Industry-Level Productivity Developments in Europe

Serhan Cevik, Sadhna Naik and Keyra Primus

2024/257: A Confidence-Financial Inclusion Nexus in the Caucasus and Central Asia?

Kalin Tintchev and Kady Keita

2024/256: The Urgency of Conflict Prevention – A Macroeconomic Perspective

Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh, Benjamin Seimon and Raphael Espinoza

2024/255: Size and Resilience of the Blue Economy in Pacific Island Economies

Fabien Gonguet and Junting Zhou

2024/254: G3MOD: A Multi-Country Global Forecasting Model

Iaroslav Miller, Daniel Baksa, Philippe Karam and Tugrul Vehbi

2024/253: The Dynamics of Trade Integration and Fragmentation in LAC

Rafael Machado Parente and Flavien Moreau

2024/252: Reconciling Random Walks and Predictability: A Dual- Component Model of Exchange Rate Dynamics

Bas Bakker

2024/251: Output Gap Uncertainty and Fiscal Policy Adjustment in Real-Time in Emerging Economies

Giacomo Cattelan and Boaz Nandwa

2024/250: A Bitter Aftertaste: How State Aid Affects Recipient Firms and Their Competitors in Europe

Luis Brandão-Marques and Hasan Toprak

2024/249: Industrial Policy in Europe: A Single Market Perspective

Andrew Hodge, Roberto Piazza, Fuad Hasanov, Xun Li, Maryam Vaziri, Atticus Weller and Yu Ching Wong

2024/248: The Heterogeneous Impacts of Firm Upgrading on Energy Intensity

Povilas Lastauskas, Ziran Ding and Mustapha Douch

2024/247: Effects of IMF-Supported Programs on Gender Inequality

Theo Eicher, Reina Kawai Eskimez and Monique Newiak

2024/246: Riding Unicorns: Startups and Venture Capital in Japan

Salih Fendoglu and TengTeng Xu

2024/245: The Role of Corporate Cash Holdings in the Transmission of Monetary Policy Tightening

JaeBin Ahn, Euihyun Bae and Jing Zhou

2024/244: Remittances in Times of Uncertainty: Understanding the Dynamics and Implications

Patrick Imam, Kangni Kpodar, Djoulassi Oloufade and Vigninou Gammadigbe

2024/243: Global Contagion of Financial Reforms

Nan Li, Chris Papageorgiou, Tong Xu and Tao Zha

2024/242: Bilateral Trade in Services and Exchange Rates: Evidence of Dominant Currency Pricing

Nan Li and Sergii Meleshchuk

2024/241: New Evidence on the US Excess Return on Foreign Portfolios

Carol C. Bertaut, Stephanie Curcuru, Ester Faia and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

2024/240: Implementing Risk-Based Solvency for Insurers—Lessons from Kenya, Mexico, and South Africa

Peter Windsor, Suzette Vogelsang, Christiaan Henning, Kerwin Martin, Elias Omondi, Gerardo Rubio and Jooste Steynberg

2024/239: Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Indian States

Monique Newiak, Ratna Sahay and Navya Srivastava

2024/238: China’s Path to Sustainable and Balanced Growth

Dirk Muir, Natalija Novta and Anne Oeking

2024/237: Quarterly Projection Model for the Bank of Ghana: Extensions and Applications

Philip Abradu-Otoo, Joseph Acquah, James Attuquaye, Simon Harvey, Francis Loloh, Shalva Mkhatrishvili, Valeriu Nalban, Daniel Ngoh, Victor Osei and Michael Quansah

2024/236: Foreign Exchange Intervention Under the Integrated Policy Framework: The Case of India

Jesper Lindé, Patrick Schneider, Nujin Suphaphiphat and Hou Wang

2024/235: Growth Convergence and Public Finances of India and its States

Rajan Govil and Khyati Chauhan

2024/234: Citizens' Perceptions of Tax Authorities and Tax Efficiency in Africa

Telma Yamou, Alun Thomas and Kaihao Cai

2024/233: Identifying Determinants of FX Stability in Mozambique

Samuel Mann and Alexis Meyer-Cirkel

2024/232: Public Investment Management Bottlenecks in Low-income Countries

Khaled Eltokhy, Nicoletta Feruglio, Kezhou Miao, Arturo Navarro and Eivind Tandberg

2024/231: Demand for Ethanol Considering Spatially Differentiated Fuel Retailers

Simone Cuiabano

2024/230: The Political Economy of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Removal: Evidence from Bolivia and Mexico

Mariza Montes de Oca Leon, Achim Hagen and Franziska Holz

2024/229: Dynamic Development Accounting and Relative Income Traps

Patrick Imam and Jonathan Temple

2024/228: Following the Money: Who is Keeping Coal Alive?

Gregor Schwerhoff and Mouhamadou Sy

2024/227: Inelastic Demand Meets Optimal Supply of Risky Sovereign Bonds

Matías Moretti, Lorenzo Pandolfi, German Villegas Bauer, Sergio Schmukler and Tomas Williams

2024/226: Central Bank Digital Currencies and Financial Stability: Balance Sheet Analysis and Policy Choices

Romain Bouis, R. Gaston Gelos, Fumitaka Nakamura, Paavo Miettinen, Erlend Nier and Gabriel Soderberg

2024/225: Reported Social Unrest Index: September 2024 Update

Philip Barrett

2024/224: A New Dataset of High-Frequency Monetary Policy Shocks

Marijn Bolhuis, Sonali Das and Bella Yao

2024/223: Parametric Pension Reform Options in Korea

Daniel Baksa, Boele Bonthuis, Si Guo and Zsuzsa Munkacsi

2024/222: Divergence in Post-Pandemic Earnings Growth: Evidence from Micro Data

Sophia Chen and Do Lee

2024/221: IMF-Supported Programs in Low-Income Countries: Fragile versus Non-Fragile States

Kaihao Cai, Edouard Martin and Felix Vardy

2024/220: Inflation and Labor Markets: A Bottom-Up View

Sophia Chen, Deniz Igan, Do Lee and Prachi Mishra

2024/219: What Can Artificial Intelligence Do for Stagnant Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Bas Bakker, Sophia Chen, Dmitry Vasilyev, Olga Bespalova, Moya Chin, Daria Kolpakova, Archit Singhal and Yuanchen Yang

2024/218: Europe’s Shift to EVs Amid Intensifying Global Competition

Philippe Wingender, Jiaxiong Yao, Robert Zymek, Benjamin Carton, Diego Cerdeiro and Anke Weber

2024/217: Shifting Perceptions: Unpacking Public Support for Immigrant Workers Integration in the Labor Market

Silvia Albrizio, Hippolyte Balima, Bertrand Gruss, Eric Huang and Colombe Ladreit

2024/216: Private Participation and its Discontents: Insights from Large-Scale Surveys

Silvia Albrizio, Hippolyte Balima, Bertrand Gruss, Eric Huang and Colombe Ladreit

2024/215: Beyond Energy: Inflationary Effects of Metals Price Shocks in Production Networks

Jorge Miranda-Pinto, Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer and Xueliang Wang

2024/214: Global Shocks Unfolding: Lessons from Fragile and Conflict-affected States

Jocelyn Boussard, Chiara Castrovillari, Tomohide Mineyama, Marta Spinella, Bilal Tabti and Maxwell Tuuli

2024/213: The Economics of Decarbonizing Electricity Production

Gregor Schwerhoff

2024/212: Measuring Soft Power: A New Global Index

Serhan Cevik and Tales Padilha

2024/211: Migration into the EU: Stocktaking of Recent Developments and Macroeconomic Implications

Francesca Caselli, Huidan Lin, Frederik Toscani and Jiaxiong Yao

2024/210: An Updated Action-based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation

Gustavo Adler, Cian Allen, Giovanni Ganelli and Daniel Leigh

2024/209: The Economic Impact of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from a New Cross-Country Database

Gee Hee Hong, Shikun (Barry) Ke and Anh Nguyen

2024/208: Transfers, Excess Savings, and Large Fiscal Multipliers

Gene Kindberg-Hanlon

2024/207: Committing to Grow: The Full Impact of WTO Accessions

André Brotto, Adam Jakubik, Roberta Piermartini and Fulvio Silvy

2024/206: Mending the Crystal Ball: Enhanced Inflation Forecasts with Machine Learning

Yang Liu, Ran Pan and Rui Xu

2024/205: Chinese Banks and Their EMDE Borrowers: Have Their Relationships Changed in Times of Geoeconomic Fragmentation?

Catherine Casanova, Eugenio Cerutti and Swapan-Kumar Pradhan

2024/204: Satellite-Based Census of Residential Buildings: Application for Climate Risk Assessment

Andinet Woldemichael and Iyke Maduako

2024/203: Systemic Implications of Financial Inclusion

Sami Ben Naceur, Bertrand Candelon and Farah Mugrabi

2024/202: Rising Temperature, Nuanced Effects: Evidence from Seasonal and Sectoral Data

Ha Nguyen and Samuel Pienknagura

2024/201: Navigating Minefields and Headwinds: National Security, Demographic Shifts, Climate Change and Fiscal Policy in Lithuania

Serhan Cevik

2024/200: Fiscal Risk Sharing in China: Is It Significant and How to Further Improve It?

Fei Han, Grace Li Bin and Chenqi Zhou

2024/199: The Labor Market Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from US Regions

Yueling Huang

2024/198: Climate Policy Diffusion Across US States

Mitali Das, Manuel Linsenmeier and Gregor Schwerhoff

2024/197: Beyond the Dikes: Flood Scenarios for Financial Stability Risk Analysis

Caterina Lepore and Junghwan Mok

2024/196: A Gravity Model of Geopolitics and Financial Fragmentation

Mario Catalan, Salih Fendoglu and Tomohiro Tsuruga

2024/195: Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs

Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo

2024/194: Fiscal Discourse and Fiscal Policy

Yongquan Cao, Era Dabla-Norris and Enrico Di Gregorio

2024/193: Banking Law and Climate Change: Key Legal Issues

Mario Tamez, Ender Emre and Alessandro Gullo

2024/192: Central Banks and Climate Change: Key Legal Issues

Mario Tamez, Hans Weenink and Akihiro Yoshinaga

2024/191: Managing Remittances Inflows with Foreign Exchange Intervention

Maria-Angels Oliva and Nika Khinashvili

2024/190: Regime-Switching Factor Models and Nowcasting with Big Data

Omer Faruk Akbal

2024/189: Geopolitical Proximity and the Use of Global Currencies

Jakree Koosakul, Longmei Zhang and Maryam Zia

2024/188: How do Economic Growth and Food Inflation Affect Food Insecurity?

Christian Bogmans, Andrea Pescatori and Ervin Prifti

2024/187: Overview of the New Calibrated DSGE Model of the Economy of North Macedonia

Tibor Hlédik, Joana Madjoska, Mite Miteski and Jan Vlcek

2024/186: Currencies in Turbulence: Exploring the Impact of Natural Disasters on Exchange Rates

Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen and Ha Nguyen

2024/185: Changing Climate in Brazil: Key Vulnerabilities and Opportunities

Chen Chen, Koralai Kirabaeva, Christina Kolerus, Ian Parry and Nate Vernon-Lin

2024/184: Investing in Climate Adaptation under Trade and Financing Constraints: Balanced Strategies for Food Security

Chen Chen, Koralai Kirabaeva and Danchen Zhao

2024/183: Advancing Labor Market Reforms in Korea

Stella Tam and Xin Xu

2024/182: Financial and Business Cycles: Shall We Dance?: An Application to Kazakhstan

Gregorio Impavido

2024/181: Taming Public Debt in Europe: Outlook, Challenges, and Policy Response

Saioa Armendariz, Ezequiel Cabezon, Larry Cui, Silvia Domit, Alina Iancu, Giacomo Magistretti, Rohan Srinivas and Yu Ching Wong

2024/180: Trade Implications of China's Subsidies

Lorenzo Rotunno and Michele Ruta

2024/179: How Widespread is FDI Fragmentation?

Joanne Tan

2024/178: Shedding Light on the Local Impact of Temperature

Da Hoang, Duong Trung Le, Ha Nguyen and Nikola Spatafora

2024/177: Programmability in Payment and Settlement

Xavier Lavayssière and Nicolas Zhang

2024/176: Industrial Policies for Innovation: A Cost-Benefit Framework

Daniel Garcia-Macia and Alexandre Sollaci

2024/175: The Joint Effect of Emigration and Remittances on Economic Growth and Labor Force Participation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Alina Carare, Alejandro Fiorito Baratas, Jessie Kilembe, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov and Wenzhang Zhang

2024/174: Fiscal R-Star: Fiscal-Monetary Tensions and Implications for Policy

Marijn Bolhuis, Jakree Koosakul and Neil Shenai

2024/173: The Role of IMF Arrangements in Restoring Access to International Capital Markets

Joseph Kogan, Romina Kazandjian, Shijia Luo, Moustapha Mbohou and Hui Miao

2024/172: Okun in the Euro: New Evidence from Structural Okun Law’s Estimates for the Euro Area, 1979-2019

Nauro Campos, Corrado Macchiarelli and Fotios Mitropoulos

2024/171: Labor Market Gender Gaps in Türkiye: A Bird’s Eye View

Silvia Domit and Damla Kesimal

2024/170: ECB Spillovers to Emerging Europe: The Past and Current Experience

Philipp Engler, Gianluigi Ferrucci, Pawel Zabczyk and Tianxiao Zheng

2024/169: Productive Capacities, Economic Vulnerability and Growth Volatility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aminou Yaya

2024/168: Whose Asset Sales Matter?

Rhys Bidder, Jamie Coen, Caterina Lepore and Laura Silvetri