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2016/080: Understanding Corporate Vulnerabilities in Latin America

Carlos Caceres and Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos

2016/079: Fiscal Multipliers for Brazil

Troy Matheson and Joana Pereira

2016/078: Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public-Private Partnerships

Edward Buffie, Michele Andreolli, Grace Li and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2016/077: Reassessing the Productivity Gains from Trade Liberalization

JaeBin Ahn, Era Dabla-Norris, Romain Duval, Bingjie Hu and Lamin Njie

2016/076: Credit, Securitization and Monetary Policy: Watch Out for Unintended Consequences

Andrea Pescatori and Juan Sole

2016/075: Trilemma or Dilemma: Inspecting the Heterogeneous Response of Local Currency Interest Rates to Foreign Rates

Luca Ricci and Wei Shi

2016/074: Macroprudential and Monetary Policy Interactions in a DSGE Model for Sweden

Jiaqian Chen and Francesco Columba

2016/073: Financial Stability and Interest-Rate Policy: A Quantitative Assessment of Costs and Benefits

Andrea Pescatori and Stefan Laséen

2016/072: Monetary Policy in the Presence of Islamic Banking

Mariam El Hamiani Khatat

2016/071: Nowcasting Annual National Accounts with Quarterly Indicators: An Assessment of Widely Used Benchmarking Methods

Marco Marini

2016/070: Implications of Food Subsistence for Monetary Policy and Inflation

Rafael Portillo, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Stephen O'Connell and Richard Peck

2016/069: Optimal Fiscal Adjustment under Uncertainty

Rossen Rozenov

2016/068: Tax Administration Reform in China: Achievements, Challenges, and Reform Priorities

John Brondolo and Zhiyong Zhang

2016/067: Foreign Exchange Intervention under Policy Uncertainty

Gustavo Adler, Ruy Lama and Juan Medina

2016/066: Serial Sovereign Defaults and Debt Restructurings

Tamon Asonuma

2016/065: Natural Disasters and Food Crises in Low-Income Countries: Macroeconomic Dimensions

Olumuyiwa Adedeji, Jana Bricco ('Gieck') and Vera Kehayova

2016/064: Bank Solvency and Funding Cost

Christoph Aymanns, Carlos Caceres, Christina Daniel and Liliana Schumacher

2016/063: China's Slowdown and Global Financial Market Volatility: Is World Growth Losing Out?

Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

2016/062: When Do Structural Reforms Work? On the Role of the Business Cycle and Macroeconomic Policies

Anna Bordon, Christian Hubert Ebeke and Kazuko Shirono

2016/061: Winning the Oil Lottery: The Impact of Natural Resource Extraction on Growth

Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata and Frederik Toscani

2016/060: Can Government Demand Stimulate Private Investment? Evidence from U.S. Federal Procurement

Shafik Hebous and Tom Zimmermann

2016/059: Stochastic Trends, Debt Sustainability and Fiscal Policy

Karim Barhoumi, Reda Cherif and Nooman Rebei

2016/058: Unconventional Policy Instruments in the New Keynesian Model

Zineddine Alla, Raphael Espinoza and Atish Ghosh

2016/057: Dynamic Connectedness of Asian Equity Markets

Roberto Guimarães-Filho and Gee Hee Hong

2016/056: Seeing in the Dark: A Machine-Learning Approach to Nowcasting in Lebanon

Andrew Tiffin

2016/055: Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Management In Less Developed Countries

Marco Airaudo, Edward Buffie and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2016/054: Has Globalization Really Increased Business Cycle Synchronization?

Eric Monnet and Damien Puy

2016/053: Caribbean Energy: Macro-Related Challenges

Arnold McIntyre, Ahmed El-Ashram, Márcio Ronci, Julien Reynaud, Natasha Che, Ke Wang, Sebastian Acevedo and Mark Lutz

2016/052: Singapore’s Export Elasticities: A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity

Elif Arbatli Saxegaard and Gee Hee Hong

2016/051: China’s Imports Slowdown: Spillovers, Spillins, and Spillbacks

Alexei Kireyev and Andrei Leonidov

2016/050: Gender Diversity in Senior Positions and Firm Performance: Evidence from Europe

Lone Engbo Christiansen, Huidan Lin, Joana Pereira, Petia Topalova and Rima Turk Ariss

2016/049: Individual Choice or Policies? Drivers of Female Employment in Europe

Lone Engbo Christiansen, Huidan Lin, Joana Pereira, Petia Topalova and Rima Turk Ariss

2016/048: Sharing the Growth Dividend: Analysis of Inequality in Asia

Sonali Jain-Chandra, Tidiane Kinda, Kalpana Kochhar, Shi Piao and Johanna Schauer

2016/047: Macroeconomic Impact of Product and Labor Market Reforms on Informality and Unemployment in India

Rahul Anand and Purva Khera

2016/046: Sustainability and Equity Challenges: Some Arithmetic on Lebanon’s Pension System

Mariusz Jarmuzek and Najla Nakhle

2016/045: A Closer Look at Sectoral Financial Linkages in Brazil I: Corporations’ Financial Statements

Izabela Karpowicz, Fabian Lipinsky and Jongho Park

2016/044: What’s Different about Monetary Policy Transmission in Remittance-Dependent Countries?

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Hubert Ebeke and Anne Oeking

2016/043: G-20 Data Gaps Initiative II: Meeting the Policy Challenge

Robert Heath and Evrim Bese Goksu

2016/042: Islamic Finance and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)

Nadim Kyriakos-Saad, Manuel Vasquez, Chady El Khoury and Arz El Murr

2016/041: How Do Fiscal and Labor Policies in France Affect Inequality?

Raphael Espinoza and Esther Perez Ruiz

2016/040: The Welfare Multiplier of Public Infrastructure Investment

Giovanni Ganelli and Juha Tervala

2016/039: Improving Public Infrastructure in the Philippines

Takuji Komatsuzaki

2016/038: Institutionalizing Countercyclical Investment: A Framework for Long-term Asset Owners

Bradley Jones

2016/037: Sovereign Defaults, External Debt, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Tamon Asonuma

2016/036: Macroeconomic Stability in Resource-Rich Countries: The Role of Fiscal Policy

Elva Bova, Paulo Medas and Tigran Poghosyan

2016/035: Private Sector Activity in Hong Kong SAR and the Fed: Transmission Effects through the Currency Board

Joong Kang

2016/034: Central Bank Governance and the Role of Nonfinancial Risk Management

Ashraf Khan

2016/033: Flying to Paradise: The Role of Airlift in the Caribbean Tourism Industry

Sebastian Acevedo, Lu Han, Marie Kim and Nicole Laframboise

2016/032: Financial Development, Inequality and Poverty: Some International Evidence

Sami Ben Naceur and RuiXin Zhang

2016/031: Being Poor, Feeling Poorer: Inequality, Poverty and Poverty Perceptions in the Western Balkans

Zsoka Koczan

2016/030: Quality and the Great Trade Collapse

Natalie Chen and Luciana Juvenal

2016/029: Macroprudential Policies in Southeastern Europe

Dilyana Dimova, Piyabha Kongsamut and Jerome Vandenbussche

2016/028: Leading Indicators of Fiscal Distress: Evidence from the Extreme Bound Analysis

Martin Bruns and Tigran Poghosyan

2016/027: Trading on Their Terms? Commodity Exporters in the Aftermath of the Commodity Boom

Aqib Aslam, Samya Beidas-Strom, Rudolfs Bems, Oya Celasun and Zsoka Koczan

2016/026: Pilot Project on Concentration and Distribution Measures for a Selected Set of Financial Soundness Indicators

Joe Crowley, Plapa Koukpamou, Elena Loukoianova and André Mialou

2016/025: What’s In a Name? That Which We Call Capital Controls

Atish Ghosh and Mahvash Qureshi

2016/024: South Africa’s Exports Performance: Any Role for Structural Factors?

Rahul Anand, Roberto Perrelli and Boyang Zhang

2016/023: Pass-Through of Imported Input Prices to Domestic Producer Prices: Evidence from Sector-Level Data

JaeBin Ahn, Chang-Gui Park and Chanho Park

2016/022: An Empirical Investigation of Oil-Macro-Financial Linkages in Saudi Arabia

Ken Miyajima

2016/021: Trends in Gender Equality and Women’s Advancement

Janet Stotsky, Sakina Shibuya, Lisa Kolovich and Suhaib Kebhaj

2016/020: Wage-Price Dynamics and Structural Reforms in Japan

Davide Porcellacchia

2016/019: Robust Measures of Core Inflation for Vietnam

Sanjay Kalra and Bui Thi Trang Dzung

2016/018: From Global Savings Glut to Financing Infrastructure: The Advent of Investment Platforms

Rabah Arezki, Patrick Bolton, Sanjay Peters, Frederic Samama and Joseph Stiglitz

2016/017: Unintended Consequences: Spillovers from Nigeria’s Fuel Pricing Policies to Its Neighbor

Montfort Mlachila, Edgardo Ruggiero and David Corvino

2016/016: Macroeconomic Impacts of Gender Inequality and Informality in India

Purva Khera

2016/015: Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Era Dabla-Norris, Giang Ho and Annette Kyobe

2016/014: The Fiscal Costs of Contingent Liabilities: A New Dataset

Elva Bova, Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Frederik Toscani and H. Elif Ture

2016/013: Estimating Fiscal Multipliers with Correlated Heterogeneity

Emmanouil Kitsios and Manasa Patnam

2016/012: Commodity Price Shocks and Financial Sector Fragility

Tidiane Kinda, Montfort Mlachila and Rasmane Ouedraogo

2016/011: The Financial Wealth of Corporations: A First Look at Sectoral Balance Sheet Data

Yuko Hashimoto and Noriaki Kinoshita

2016/010: The Lender of Last Resort Function after the Global Financial Crisis

Marc Dobler, Simon Gray, Diarmuid Murphy and Bozena Radzewicz-Bak

2016/009: Risks of Stagnation in the Euro Area

Huidan Lin

2016/008: Flexible Fiscal Rules and Countercyclical Fiscal Policy

Martine Guerguil, Pierre Mandon and René Tapsoba

2016/007: From Containment to Rationalization: Increasing Public Expenditure Efficiency in France

Jean-Jacques Hallaert and Maximilien Queyranne

2016/006: The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Robert Beyer

2016/005: Introducing a New Broad-based Index of Financial Development

Katsiaryna Svirydzenka

2016/004: Effectiveness and Channels of Macroprudential Instruments: Lessons from the Euro Area

Thierry Tressel and Yuanyan Zhang

2016/003: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Leaning Against the Wind: Are Costs Larger Also with Less Effective Macroprudential Policy?

Lars Svensson

2016/002: Understanding India’s Food Inflation: The Role of Demand and Supply Factors

Rahul Anand, Naresh Kumar and Volodymyr Tulin

2016/001: Non-Linear Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Emerging Markets

Francesca Caselli and Agustin Roitman

2015/402: This is a Dead Working Paper Record That Should Be Deleted

Huidan Lin

2015/288: Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Financial Conditions: Evidence from the United States

Aleksandra Zdzienicka, Sally Chen, Federico Diaz Kalan, Stefan Laséen and Katsiaryna Svirydzenka

2015/287: The Impact of Unconventional Monetary Policy Measures by the Systemic Four on Global Liquidity and Monetary Conditions

Yevgeniya Korniyenko and Elena Loukoianova

2015/286: Government Spending Effects in Low-income Countries

Wenyi Shen, Susan Yang and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2015/285: Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets: Financing vs. Real Options Channel

Delong Li, Nicolas Magud and Fabian Valencia

2015/284: Floating with a Load of FX Debt?

Tatsiana Kliatskova and Uffe Mikkelsen

2015/283: Will Macroprudential Policy Counteract Monetary Policy’s Effects on Financial Stability?

Itai Agur and Maria Demertzis

2015/282: Long-term Gain, Short-Term Pain: Assessing the Potential Impact of Structural Reforms in Chile

Marika Santoro

2015/281: The Game of Anchors: Studying the Causes of Currency Crises in Belarus

Alex Miksjuk, Sam Ouliaris and Mikhail Pranovich

2015/280: Sharing a Ride on the Commodities Roller Coaster: Common Factors in Business Cycles of Emerging Economies

Andrés Fernández Martin, Andres Gonzalez and Diego Rodriguez Guzman

2015/279: Reforming the Legal and Institutional Framework for the Enforcement of Civil and Commercial Claims in Portugal

Sebastiaan Pompe and Wolfgang Bergthaler

2015/278: From Expenditure Consolidation to Expenditure Efficiency: Addressing Public Expenditure Pressures in Lithuania

David Coady and Nan Geng

2015/277: Changes in the Global Investor Base and the Stability of Portfolio Flows to Emerging Markets

Luis Brandão-Marques, R. Gaston Gelos, Hibiki Ichiue and Hiroko Oura

2015/276: Housing Price and Household Debt Interactions in Sweden

Rima Turk Ariss

2015/275: International Sovereign Bonds by Emerging Markets and Developing Economies: Drivers of Issuance and Spreads

Andrea Presbitero, Dhaneshwar Ghura, Olumuyiwa Adedeji and Lamin Njie

2015/274: Financial Distortions in China: A General Equilibrium Approach

Diego Anzoategui, Mali Chivakul and Wojciech Maliszewski

2015/273: A Macro-Model Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis and Forecasting for Vietnam

Allan Dizioli and Jochen M. Schmittmann

2015/272: Some Misconceptions about Public Investment Efficiency and Growth

Andrew Berg, Edward Buffie, Catherine Pattillo, Rafael Portillo, Andrea Presbitero and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2015/271: March Madness in Wall Street: (What) Does the Market Learn from Stress Tests?

Marcelo Fernandes, Deniz Igan and Marcelo Pinheiro

2015/270: Monetary Policy in a Developing Country: Loan Applications and Real Effects

Charles Abuka, Ronnie Alinda, Camelia Minoiu, Jose-Luis Peydro and Andrea Presbitero