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2018/179: Size Dependent Policies, Informality and Misallocation

Era Dabla-Norris, Laura Jaramillo, Frederico Lima and Alexandre Sollaci

2018/178: A Behavioral Approach to Financial Supervision, Regulation, and Central Banking

Ashraf Khan

2018/177: Inflation Expectations Anchoring Across Different Types of Agents: the Case of South Africa

Ken Miyajima and James Yetman

2018/176: Legal Protection: Liability and Immunity Arrangements of Central Banks and Financial Supervisors

Ashraf Khan

2018/175: Using Administrative Data to Enhance Policymaking in Developing Countries: Tax Data and the National Accounts

Lisbeth Rivas and Joe Crowley

2018/174: Universal Basic Income in Developing Countries: Issues, Options, and Illustration for India

David Coady and Delphine Prady

2018/173: Monetary Policy Credibility and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in South Africa

Alain Kabundi and Montfort Mlachila

2018/172: Demographics and Interest Rates in Asia

Serkan Arslanalp, Jaewoo Lee and Umang Rawat

2018/171: Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth

Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso, Davide Malacrino and Luigi Pistaferri

2018/170: Twin Deficits in Developing Economies

Davide Furceri and Aleksandra Zdzienicka

2018/169: Is Unemployment on Steroids in Advanced Economies?

C. Di Bella, Francesco Grigoli and Francisco Ramirez

2018/168: International Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Review of the Channels, Magnitudes, and Blind Spots

Sebastian Beer, Ruud de Mooij and Li Liu

2018/167: Inflation News and Euro Area Inflation Expectations

Juan Angel Garcia and Sebastian Werner

2018/166: Tax Spillovers from US Corporate Income Tax Reform

Sebastian Beer, Alexander Klemm and Thornton Matheson

2018/165: Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions

Benjamin Hilgenstock and Zsoka Koczan

2018/164: Fundamental Drivers of House Prices in Advanced Economies

Nan Geng

2018/163: Is the Cycle the Trend? Evidence From the Views of International Forecasters

John Bluedorn and Daniel Leigh

2018/162: Bank Network Analysis in the ECCU

Balázs Csontó, Alejandro Guerson, Alla Myrvoda and Emefa Sewordor

2018/161: Investment Slowdown in Denmark: Diagnosis and Policy Options

Tigran Poghosyan

2018/160: Housing Price, Credit, and Output Cycles: How Domestic and External Shocks Impact Lithuania's Credit

Iacovos Ioannou

2018/159: Losing to Blackouts: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Daniel Gurara and Dawit Tessema

2018/158: Who Pays for Financial Crises? Price and Quantity Rationing of Different Borrowers by Domestic and Foreign Banks

Allen Berger, Tanakorn Makaew and Rima Turk Ariss

2018/157: Bank Competition, Risk Taking, and their Consequences: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage and Labor Markets

Alan Xiaochen Feng

2018/156: Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy Surprises in Chile

Andrea Pescatori

2018/155: Self-insurance Against Natural Disasters: The Use of Pension Funds in Pacific Island Countries

Si Guo and Futoshi Narita

2018/154: Trend Inflation and Inflation Compensation

Juan Angel Garcia and Aubrey Poon

2018/153: Commodity Price Movements and Banking Crises

Markus Eberhardt and Andrea Presbitero

2018/152: Estimates of Potential Output and the Neutral Rate for the U.S. Economy

Ali Alichi, Rania Al-Mashat, Hayk Avetisyan, Jaromir Benes, Olivier Bizimana, Aram Butavyan, Robert Ford, Narek Ghazaryan, Vahagn Grigoryan, Mane Harutyunyan, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Edgar Hovhannisyan, Hayk Karapetyan, Mariam Kharaishvili, Douglas Laxton, Akaki Liqokeli, Karolina Matikyan, Gevorg Minasyan, Shalva Mkhatrishvili, Armen Nurbekyan, Andrei Orlov, Babken Pashinyan, Garik Petrosyan, Yekaterina Rezepina, Aleksandr Shirkhanyan, Tamta Sopromadze, Lusine Torosyan, Erik Vardanyan, Hou Wang and Jiaxiong Yao

2018/151: Evaluating IMF Training: What Can We Learn?

Hali Edison, Dimitre Milkov and Josephat Koima

2018/150: Drivers of Labor Force Participation in Advanced Economies: Macro and Micro Evidence

Francesco Grigoli, Zsoka Koczan and Petia Topalova

2018/149: An Open Economy Quarterly Projection Model for Sri Lanka

Chandranath Amarasekara, Rahul Anand, Kithsiri Ehelepola, Hemantha Ekanayake, Vishuddhi Jayawickrema, Sujeetha Jegajeevan, Csaba Kober, Tharindi Nugawela, Sergey Plotnikov, Adam Remo, Poongothai Venuganan and Rasika Yatigammana

2018/148: Storm Clouds Ahead? Migration and Labor Force Participation Rates in Europe

Benjamin Hilgenstock and Zsoka Koczan

2018/147: Monetary Policy and Inflation Dynamics in ASEAN Economies

Geraldine Dany-Knedlik and Juan Angel Garcia

2018/146: The Macroeconomic and Distributional Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries

Adrian Peralta, Marina Tavares, Xuan Tam and Xin Tang

2018/145: The Globalization of Farmland: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Rabah Arezki, Christian Bogmans and Harris Selod

2018/144: The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact?

Sebastian Acevedo, Mico Mrkaic, Natalija Novta, Evgenia Pugacheva and Petia Topalova

2018/143: Cyber Risk for the Financial Sector: A Framework for Quantitative Assessment

Antoine Bouveret

2018/142: The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America

Yan Carrière-Swallow, Antonio David and Daniel Leigh

2018/141: Bailing Out the People? When Private Debt Becomes Public

Samba Mbaye, Marialuz Moreno Badia and Kyungla Chae

2018/140: A Macroeconomic Approach to the Term Premium

Emanuel Kopp and Peter Williams

2018/139: Determinants of U.S. Business Investment

Emanuel Kopp

2018/138: Understanding U.S. Wage Dynamics

Yasser Abdih and Stephan Danninger

2018/137: Global Market Power and its Macroeconomic Implications

Federico Diez, Daniel Leigh and Suchanan Tambunlertchai

2018/136: How Do Migration and Remittances Affect Inequality? A Case Study of Mexico

Zsoka Koczan and Franz Loyola

2018/135: The Exposure to Routinization: Labor Market Implications for Developed and Developing Economies

Mitali Das and Benjamin Hilgenstock

2018/134: Short Term Inflation Determinants in Barbados

Gregorio Impavido

2018/133: Fiscal Adjustment in the Gulf Countries: Less Costly than Previously Thought

Armand Fouejieu, Sergio Rodriguez and Sohaib Shahid

2018/132: Are Elasticities of Taxable Income Rising?

Alexander Klemm, Li Liu, Victor Mylonas and Philippe Wingender

2018/131: Pushed Past the Limit? How Japanese Banks Reacted to Negative Interest Rates

Gee Hee Hong and John Kandrac

2018/130: Progressive Taxation of Extractive Resources as Second-Best Optimal Policy

Jean-Francois Wen

2018/129: How Public Investment Could Help Strengthen Iran’s Growth Potential: Issues and Options

Amir Sadeghi

2018/128: The U.S. Personal Saving Rate

Sam Ouliaris and Celine Rochon

2018/127: Inequality in China – Trends, Drivers and Policy Remedies

Sonali Jain-Chandra, Niny Khor, Rui Mano, Johanna Schauer, Philippe Wingender and Juzhong Zhuang

2018/126: Labor Market Duality in Korea

Johanna Schauer

2018/125: Effectiveness of Internal Audit and Oversight at Central Banks: Safeguards Findings - Trends and Observations

Elie Chamoun and Riaan van Greuning

2018/124: Empirical Estimation of Fiscal Multipliers in MENA Oil-Exporting Countries with an Application to Algeria

Maria Elkhdari, Moez Souissi and Andrew Jewell

2018/123: Does Financial Tranquility Call for Stringent Regulation?

Deepal Basak and Yunhui Zhao

2018/122: On the Macroeconomic Consequences of Over-Optimism

Paul Beaudry and Tim Willems

2018/121: Belize's 2016-17 Sovereign Debt Restructuring - Third Time Lucky?

Tamon Asonuma, Michael Papaioannou, Eriko Togo and Bert van Selm

2018/120: A Cohort-Based Analysis of Labor Force Participation for Advanced Economies

Francesco Grigoli, Zsoka Koczan and Petia Topalova

2018/119: Australia's Linkages with China: Prospects and Ramifications of China's Economic Transition

Philippe Karam and Dirk Muir

2018/118: Permanently Displaced? Increasingly Disconnected? Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas

Benjamin Hilgenstock and Zsoka Koczan

2018/117: Sharp Instrument: A Stab at Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth

Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov and Lichen Wang

2018/116: Should We Fear the Robot Revolution? (The Correct Answer is Yes)

Andrew Berg, Edward Buffie and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2018/115: Employment Time and the Cyclicality of Earnings Growth

Eran Hoffmann and Davide Malacrino

2018/114: International Spillovers of Forward Guidance Shocks

Callum Jones, Mariano Kulish and Daniel Rees

2018/113: Evolution of the Global Financial Network and Contagion: A New Approach

Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Manasa Patnam, Rita Maria del Rio-Chanon and Mason Porter

2018/112: Resource Misallocation and Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Florian Misch and Christian Saborowski

2018/111: Global Debt Database: Methodology and Sources

Samba Mbaye, Marialuz Moreno Badia and Kyungla Chae

2018/110: Tax Policy Measures in Advanced and Emerging Economies: A Novel Database

David Amaglobeli, Valerio Crispolti, Era Dabla-Norris, Pooja Karnane and Florian Misch

2018/109: Peeling Away the Layers: Impacts of Durable Tariff Elimination

Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan and Christian Henn

2018/108: The Economic Impact of Natural Disasters in Pacific Island Countries: Adaptation and Preparedness

Dongyeol Lee, Huan Zhang and Chau Nguyen

2018/107: Real Exchange Rates, Economic Complexity, and Investment

Steve Brito, Nicolas Magud and Sebastian Sosa

2018/106: Explaining Inflation in Colombia: A Disaggregated Phillips Curve Approach

Sergi Lanau, Adrian Robles and Frederik Toscani

2018/105: Gender Equality: Which Policies Have the Biggest Bang for the Buck?

Sonali Jain-Chandra, Kalpana Kochhar, Monique Newiak, Yang Yang and Edda Zoli

2018/104: Debt Seniority and Sovereign Debt Crises

Anil Ari, Giancarlo Corsetti and Luca Dedola

2018/103: Cross-Border Transmission of Fiscal Shocks: The Role of Monetary Conditions

Patrick Blagrave, Giang Ho, Ksenia Koloskova and Esteban Vesperoni

2018/102: Are Remittances Good for Labor Markets in LICs, MICs and Fragile States?

Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp and Anne Oeking

2018/100: Real Sectoral Spillovers: A Dynamic Factor Analysis of the Great Recession

Nan Li and Vance Martin

2018/099: Where Have All the Profits Gone? European Bank Profitability Over the Financial Cycle

Enrica Detragiache, Thierry Tressel and Rima Turk Ariss

2018/098: Oil Prices and GCC Stock Markets: New Evidence from Smooth Transition Models

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh, Sami Ben Naceur, Oussama Kanaan and Christophe Rault

2018/097: Foreign Currency Bank Funding and Global Factors

Signe Krogstrup and Cédric Tille

2018/096: Scarcity Effects of Quantitative Easing on Market Liquidity: Evidence from the Japanese Government Bond Market

Fei Han and Dulani Seneviratne

2018/095: Instruments, Investor Base, and Recent Developments in the Malaysian Government Bond Market

Yinqiu Lu and Dmitry Yakovlev

2018/094: A New Action-based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Antonio David and Daniel Leigh

2018/093: Financial Crises, Macroeconomic Shocks, and the Government Balance Sheet: A Panel Analysis

Matteo Ruzzante

2018/092: On Bank Consolidation in a Currency Union

Fabio Di Vittorio, Delong Li and Hanlei Yun

2018/091: A New Strategy for Korea’s Fiscal Policy in a Low Growth Environment

Edda Zoli, Hou Wang and Douglas Laxton

2018/090: An Estimated DSGE Model to Analyze Housing Market Policies in Hong Kong SAR

Pau Rabanal

2018/089: Stabilizing China’s Housing Market

Richard Koss and Xinrui Shi

2018/088: Intergovernmental Fiscal Reform in China

Philippe Wingender

2018/087: Thou Shalt Not Breach: The Impact on Sovereign Spreads of Noncomplying with the EU Fiscal Rules

Federico Diaz Kalan, Adina Popescu and Julien Reynaud

2018/086: Economic Benefits of Export Diversification in Small States

Arnold McIntyre, Mike Xin Li, Ke Wang and Hanlei Yun

2018/085: Decoupling of Emissions and GDP: Evidence from Aggregate and Provincial Chinese Data

Gail Cohen, Joao Jalles, Prakash Loungani, Ricardo Marto and Gewei Wang

2018/084: How Do Regulations of Entry and Credit Access Relate to Industry Competition? International Evidence

Deniz Igan, Ali Mirzaei and Tomoe Moore

2018/083: The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Financial Globalization: Evidence from Macro and Sectoral Data

Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani and Jonathan Ostry

2018/082: Interest-Growth Differentials and Debt Limits in Advanced Economies

Philip Barrett

2018/081: The Global Macrofinancial Model

Francis Vitek

2018/080: Relationship Between Short-Term Interest Rates and Excess Reserves: A Logistic Approach

Romain Veyrune, Guido della Valle and Shaoyu Guo

2018/079: The Stabilizing Role of Net Foreign Asset Returns

Gustavo Adler and Daniel Garcia-Macia