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2017/255: Corruption, Taxes and Compliance

Anja Baum, Sanjeev Gupta, Elijah Kimani and Sampawende Tapsoba

2017/254: How Should Shale Gas Extraction Be Taxed?

Philip Daniel, Alan Krupnick, Thornton Matheson, Peter Mullins, Ian Parry and Artur Swistak

2017/253: Does Import Competition Induce R&D Reallocation? Evidence from the U.S

Rui Xu and Kaiji Gong

2017/252: Bank Capital and Lending: An Extended Framework and Evidence of Nonlinearity

Mario Catalan, Alexander Hoffmaister and Cicilia Harun

2017/251: LAO P.D.R.: Assessing the Quality of Trade Statistics

Geoffrey Bannister, Manuk Ghazanchyan and Theodore Bikoi

2017/250: Booms, Crises, and Recoveries: A New Paradigm of the Business Cycle and its Policy Implications

Valerie Cerra and Sweta Saxena

2017/249: The Sectoral Effects of Real Depreciations in Latin America

Sergi Lanau

2017/248: Assessing China’s Residential Real Estate Market

Ding Ding, Xiaoyu Huang, Tao Jin and Waikei Lam

2017/247: Taxing Telecommunications in Developing Countries

Thornton Matheson and Patrick Petit

2017/246: Assessing Loss of Market Access: Conceptual and Operational Issues

Anastasia Guscina, Sheheryar Malik and Michael Papaioannou

2017/245: Basel III and Bank-Lending: Evidence from the United States and Europe

Sami Ben Naceur, Jérémy Pépy and Caroline Roulet

2017/244: Hollowing Out: The Channels of Income Polarization in the United States

Ali Alichi, Rodrigo Mariscal and Daniela Muhaj

2017/243: Enforcing Public-Private Partnership Contract: How do Fiscal Institutions Matter?

Manabu Nose

2017/242: The Slowdown in Global Trade: A Symptom of A Weak Recovery

Aqib Aslam, Emine Boz, Eugenio Cerutti, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro and Petia Topalova

2017/241: Fiscal Spillovers in the Euro Area: Letting the Data Speak

Era Dabla-Norris, Pietro Dallari and Tigran Poghosyan

2017/240: Fear Thy Neighbor: Spillovers from Economic Policy Uncertainty

Nina Biljanovska, Francesco Grigoli and Martina Hengge

2017/239: Global Trade and the Dollar

Emine Boz, Gita Gopinath and Mikkel Plagborg-Moller

2017/238: Potential Growth in Colombia

Sergi Lanau, Jorge Roldos and Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado

2017/237: Unconventional Policies and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Gustavo Adler, Ruy Lama and Juan Medina

2017/236: Inequality in Financial Inclusion and Income Inequality

Goksu Aslan, Corinne Delechat, Monique Newiak and Fan Yang

2017/235: The Macro-Fiscal Aftermath of Weather-Related Disasters: Do Loss Dimensions Matter?

Kerstin Gerling

2017/234: Bank Lending in the Knowledge Economy

Giovanni Dell'ariccia, Dalida Kadyrzhanova, Camelia Minoiu and Lev Ratnovski

2017/233: Trends and Challenges in Infrastructure Investment in Low-Income Developing Countries

Daniel Gurara, Vladimir Klyuev, Nkunde Mwase, Andrea Presbitero, Xin Xu and Geoffrey Bannister

2017/232: The Global Banking Network in the Aftermath of the Crisis: Is There Evidence of De-globalization?

Eugenio Cerutti and Haonan Zhou

2017/231: Trade and Income in the Long Run: Are There Really Gains, and Are They Widely Shared?

Diego Cerdeiro and András Komáromi

2017/230: Problem Loans in the Caribbean: Determinants, Impact and Strategies for Resolution

Kimberly Beaton, Thomas Dowling, Dmitriy Kovtun, Franz Loyola, Alla Myrvoda, Joel Chiedu Okwuokei, Inci Ötker-Robe and Jarkko Turunen

2017/229: The Granular Origins of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Europe

Christian Ebeke and Kodjovi Eklou

2017/228: A Generalized Framework for the Assessment of Household Financial Vulnerability

Mindaugas Leika and Daniela Marchettini

2017/227: Nowcashing: Using Daily Fiscal Data for Real-Time Macroeconomic Analysis

Florian Misch, Brian Olden, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro and Lamya Kejji

2017/226: Liquidity Stress Tests for Investment Funds: A Practical Guide

Antoine Bouveret

2017/225: Inequality in Brazil: A Regional Perspective

Carlos Góes and Izabela Karpowicz

2017/224: International Financial Integration and Funding Risks: Bank-Level Evidence from Latin America

Luis Catão, Valeriya Dinger and Daniel te Kaat

2017/223: Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: An Application to Small Developing States

Ricardo Marto, Chris Papageorgiou and Vladimir Klyuev

2017/222: Global Liquidity Transmission to Emerging Market Economies, and Their Policy Responses

Woon Gyu Choi, Taesu Kang, Geun-Young Kim and Byongju Lee

2017/221: State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging Europe: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Uwe Böwer

2017/220: Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance

Henry Mooney and Constance de Soyres

2017/219: Measuring Global and Country-Specific Uncertainty

Ezgi O. Ozturk and Xuguang Simon Sheng

2017/218: How Financial Conditions Matter Differently across Latin America

Luis Brandão-Marques and Esther Perez Ruiz

2017/217: The Macroeconomic (and Distributional) Effects of Public Investment in Developing Economies

Davide Furceri and Grace Li

2017/216: Understanding Correspondent Banking Trends: A Monitoring Framework

Dirk Grolleman and David Jutrsa

2017/215: Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound

Matteo Cacciatore, Romain Duval, Giuseppe Fiori and Fabio Ghironi

2017/214: Lessons from the Old Masters on Assessing Equity and Efficiency: A Primer for Fiscal Policymakers

Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro and Tigran Poghosyan

2017/213: Settling the Inflation Targeting Debate: Lights from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Hippolyte Balima, Eric Kilama and René Tapsoba

2017/212: Quantitative Easing and Long-Term Yields in Small Open Economies

Antonio Diez de los Rios and Maral Shamloo

2017/211: Uncertainty, Financial Frictions and Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi and Emilio Fernández Corugedo

2017/210: Interconnectedness of Global Systemically-Important Banks and Insurers

Sheheryar Malik and TengTeng Xu

2017/209: Loss of Correspondent Banking Relationships in the Caribbean: Trends, Impact, and Policy Options

Trevor Alleyne, Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe, Thomas Dowling, Dmitriy Kovtun, Alla Myrvoda, Joel Chiedu Okwuokei and Jarkko Turunen

2017/208: The Adjustment to Commodity Price Shocks in Chile, Colombia, and Peru

Francisco Roch

2017/207: FX Intervention in the New Keynesian Model

Zineddine Alla, Raphael Espinoza and Atish Ghosh

2017/206: Did the Exchange Rate Floor Prevent Deflation in the Czech Republic?

Francesca Caselli

2017/205: Indexing Structural Distortion: Sectoral Productivity, Structural Change and Growth

Sakai Ando and Koffie Ben Nassar

2017/204: Policy Mix and the US Trade Balance

Carolina Osorio-Buitron and Gustavo Adler

2017/203: Medium-Term Budget Frameworks in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Richard Allen, Taz Chaponda, Lesley Fisher and Rohini Ray

2017/202: Growth Breaks and Growth Spells in Sub-Saharan Africa

Francisco Arizala, Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia, Charalambos Tsangarides and Mustafa Yenice

2017/201: What Prevents a Real Business Cycle Model from Matching the U.S. Data? Decomposing the Labor Wedge

Dmitry Plotnikov

2017/200: The Effect of Leverage on Asset Sales Between Financial Institutions

Sonali Das

2017/199: Banking on Women Leaders: A Case for More?

Ratna Sahay, Martin Cihak, Papa N'Diaye, Adolfo Barajas, Annette Kyobe, Srobona Mitra, Yen Mooi and Seyed Reza Yousefi

2017/198: Fiscal Stabilization and Growth: Evidence from Industry-level Data for Advanced and Developing Economies

Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri and Joao Jalles

2017/197: Benchmarking Social Spending Using Efficiency Frontiers

Javier Kapsoli and Iulia Ruxandra Teodoru

2017/196: Oil Prices and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from Advanced and Developing Economies

Sangyup Choi, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Saurabh Mishra and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro

2017/195: The Political Economy of Fiscal Transparency and Independent Fiscal Councils

Roel Beetsma, Xavier Debrun and Randolph Sloof

2017/194: Western Balkans: Increasing Women's Role in the Economy

Ruben Atoyan and Jesmin Rahman

2017/193: How Important is the Global Financial Cycle? Evidence from Capital Flows

Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens and Andrew Rose

2017/192: Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Personal Income Tax Reforms: A Heterogenous Agent Model Approach for the U.S

Sandra Lizarazo, Adrian Peralta-Alva and Damien Puy

2017/191: Emissions and Growth: Trends and Cycles in a Globalized World

Gail Cohen, Joao Jalles, Prakash Loungani and Ricardo Marto

2017/190: Housing Finance and Real Estate Markets in Colombia

Francisco Roch

2017/189: Finance and Employment in Developing Countries: The Working Capital Channel

Mai Dao and Lucy Qian Liu

2017/188: Bankruptcy Technology, Finance, and Entrepreneurship

Nelson Sobrinho

2017/187: Taxation and the Peer-to-Peer Economy

Aqib Aslam and Alpa Shah

2017/186: Stabilizing the System of Mortgage Finance in the United States

Richard Koss

2017/185: Cyber Risk, Market Failures, and Financial Stability

Emanuel Kopp, Lincoln Kaffenberger and Christopher Wilson

2017/184: The Nonlinear Interaction Between Monetary Policy and Financial Stress

Martin Saldias

2017/183: Corporate Investment and the Real Exchange Rate

Mai Dao, Camelia Minoiu and Jonathan Ostry

2017/182: Structural Reforms and External Rebalancing

Alexander Culiuc and Annette Kyobe

2017/181: Back to the Future: The Nature of Regulatory Capital Requirements

Ralph Chami, Thomas Cosimano, Emanuel Kopp and Celine Rochon

2017/180: When Gambling for Resurrection is Too Risky

Divya Kirti

2017/179: Leaning Against Windy Bank Lending

Giovanni Melina and Stefania Villa

2017/178: Calculating Trade in Value Added

Aqib Aslam, Natalija Novta and Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos

2017/177: Mining Spillovers in Chile

Esther Perez Ruiz

2017/176: The Financing of Ideas and the Great Deviation

Daniel Garcia-Macia

2017/175: Bank Consolidation, Efficiency, and Profitability in Italy

Anke Weber

2017/174: Uphill Capital Flows and the International Monetary System

Balázs Csontó and Camilo Tovar

2017/173: Government Financial Assets and Debt Sustainability

Camila Henao Arbelaez and Nelson Sobrinho

2017/172: Central Bank Balance Sheet Policies and Spillovers to Emerging Markets

Manmohan Singh and Haobin Wang

2017/171: Sovereign Debt Restructurings in Grenada: Causes, Processes, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned

Tamon Asonuma, Xin Li, Michael Papaioannou, Saji Thomas and Eriko Togo

2017/170: Macroprudential Policy Spillovers: A Quantitative Analysis

Heedon Kang, Francis Vitek, Rina Bhattacharya, Phakawa Jeasakul, Sònia Muñoz, Naixi Wang and Rasool Zandvakil

2017/169: Why Is Labor Receiving a Smaller Share of Global Income? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Mai Dao, Mitali Das, Zsoka Koczan and Weicheng Lian

2017/168: Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital, Capital Grants, and Growth

Ernesto Crivelli

2017/167: What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data

Yasser Abdih and Stephan Danninger

2017/166: Women Are Key for Future Growth: Evidence from Canada

Bengt Petersson, Rodrigo Mariscal and Kotaro Ishi

2017/165: Smooth Operator: Remittances and Fiscal Shocks

Kimberly Beaton, Serhan Cevik and Seyed Reza Yousefi

2017/164: Designing a Simple Loss Function for Central Banks: Does a Dual Mandate Make Sense?

Davide Debortoli, Jinill Kim, Jesper Lindé and Ricardo Nunes

2017/163: Financial Resource Curse in Resource-Rich Countries

Montfort Mlachila and Rasmane Ouedraogo

2017/162: The Re-Emerging Privilege of Euro Area Membership

Johannes Wiegand

2017/161: Basel Compliance and Financial Stability: Evidence from Islamic Banks

Mohammad Bitar, Sami Ben Naceur, Rym Ayadi and Thomas Walker

2017/160: A Crude Shock: Explaining the Impact of the 2014-16 Oil Price Decline Across Exporters

Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman and Andrew Swiston

2017/159: On Swing Pricing and Systemic Risk Mitigation

Sheheryar Malik and Peter Lindner

2017/158: The Evolution of Potential VAT Revenues and C-Efficiency in Advanced Economies

Junji Ueda

2017/157: A License to Issue (Anywhere): Patterns and Drivers of Corporate Bonds in Latin America

Svetlana Vtyurina, Adrian Robles and Bennett Sutton

2017/156: The Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Size and Determinants

Leandro Medina, Andrew Jonelis and Mehmet Cangul