IMF Working Papers
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- 2015/212: Credit Expansion in Emerging Markets: Propeller of Growth?

- Mercedes Garcia-Escribano and Fei Han
- 2015/211: The Impact of Global Liquidity on Financial Landscapes and Risks in the ASEAN-5 Countries

- Tao Sun
- 2015/210: How Does Bank Competition Affect Solvency, Liquidity and Credit Risk? Evidence from the MENA Countries

- Raja Almarzoqi, Sami Ben Naceur and Alessandro Scopelliti
- 2015/209: News Shocks in Open Economies: Evidence from Giant Oil Discoveries

- Rabah Arezki, Valerie Ramey and Liugang Sheng
- 2015/208: Getting the Dog to Bark: Disclosing Fiscal Risks from the Financial Sector

- Timothy Irwin
- 2015/207: Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Asia: The Role of Banks and the Effects of Financial Globalization

- Nasha Ananchotikul and Dulani Seneviratne
- 2015/206: Financial Inclusion: Zooming in on Latin America

- Era Dabla-Norris, Yixi Deng, Anna Ivanova, Izabela Karpowicz, Filiz Unsal, Eva VanLeemput and Joyce Wong
- 2015/205: What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?

- Rahul Anand, Eswar Prasad and Boyang Zhang
- 2015/204: Reaping the Benefits from Global Value Chains

- Kevin Cheng, Sidra Rehman, Dulani Seneviratne and Shiny Zhang
- 2015/203: How to De-Dollarize Financial Systems in the Caucasus and Central Asia?

- Sami Ben Naceur, Amr Hosny and Gregory Hadjian
- 2015/202: Managing the Fed’s Liftoff and Transmission of Monetary Policy

- Manmohan Singh
- 2015/201: Building a Better Union: Incentivizing Structural Reforms in the Euro Area

- Angana Banerji, Bergljot Barkbu, James John, Tidiane Kinda, Sergejs Saksonovs, Hanni Schoelermann and Tao Wu
- 2015/200: “But we are different!”: 12 Common Weaknesses in Banking Laws, and What to Do About Them

- Wouter Bossu and Dawn Chew
- 2015/199: Demand for Value Added and Value-Added Exchange Rates

- Rudolfs Bems and Robert Johnson
- 2015/198: Delegated Portfolio Management, Benchmarking, and the Effects on Financial Markets

- Deniz Igan and Marcelo Pinheiro
- 2015/197: Is There a Debt-threshold Effect on Output Growth?

- Alexander Chudik, Kamiar Mohaddes, Mohammad Pesaran and Mehdi Raissi
- 2015/196: Aid and Growth at the Regional Level

- Axel Dreher and Steffen Lohmann
- 2015/195: A New Look at the Determinants of Growth in Asian Countries

- Manuk Ghazanchyan, Janet Stotsky and Qianqian Zhang
- 2015/194: Normalization of Global Financial Conditions: The Implications for Brazil

- Troy Matheson
- 2015/193: Capital Inflows, Credit Growth, and Financial Systems

- Deniz Igan and Zhibo Tan
- 2015/192: Innovation, Deregulation, and the Life Cycle of a Financial Service Industry

- Fumiko Hayashi, Grace Li and Zhu Wang
- 2015/191: Comparing the Employment-Output Elasticities of Expatriates and Nationals in the Gulf Cooperation Council

- Alberto Behar
- 2015/190: Systemic Risk Assessment in Low Income Countries: Balancing Financial Stability and Development

- Daniela Marchettini and Rodolfo Maino
- 2015/189: On the Drivers of Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa

- Anh Nguyen, Jemma Dridi, Filiz Unsal and Oral Williams
- 2015/188: Trends in Fiscal Transparency: Evidence from a New Database of the Coverage of Fiscal Reporting

- Rachel Wang, Timothy Irwin and Lewis Murara
- 2015/187: Exports in a Tariff-Free Environment: What Structural Reforms Matter? Evidence from the European Union Single Market

- Jesmin Rahman, Ara Stepanyan, Jessie Yang and Li Zeng
- 2015/186: Portfolio Rebalancing in Japan: Constraints and Implications for Quantitative Easing

- Serkan Arslanalp and Dennis Botman
- 2015/185: Sub-Saharan Employment Developments: The Important Role of Household Enterprises with an Application to Rwanda

- Alun Thomas
- 2015/184: Integrated Ownership and Control in the GCC Corporate Sector

- Andre Santos
- 2015/183: Production Offshoring and Investment by Japanese Firms

- Joong Kang and Shi Piao
- 2015/182: Price Expectations and the U.S. Housing Boom

- Pascal Towbin and Sebastian Weber
- 2015/181: Foreign Help Wanted: Easing Japan’s Labor Shortages

- Giovanni Ganelli and Naoko Miake
- 2015/180: Filling the Gap: Infrastructure Investment in Brazil

- Mercedes Garcia-Escribano, Carlos Góes and Izabela Karpowicz
- 2015/179: Collateral Damage: Dollar Strength and Emerging Markets’ Growth

- Pablo Druck, Nicolas Magud and Rodrigo Mariscal
- 2015/178: Estimation of Drivers of Public Education Expenditure: Baumol’s Effect Revisited

- Manabu Nose
- 2015/177: Does A Regional Trade Agreement Lessen or Exacerbate Growth Volatility? An Empirical Investigation

- Kangni Kpodar and Patrick Imam
- 2015/176: Deflation and Public Finances: Evidence from the Historical Records

- Nicolas End, Sampawende Tapsoba, G. Terrier and Renaud Duplay
- 2015/175: Now or Later? The Political Economy of Public Investment in Democracies

- Sanjeev Gupta, Estelle Liu and Carlos Mulas-Granados
- 2015/174: Institutions and Growth: a GMM/IV Panel VAR Approach

- Carlos Góes
- 2015/173: What Matters for Financial Development and Stability?

- Raja Almarzoqi, Sami Ben Naceur and Akshay Kotak
- 2015/172: Fiscal Deficit and Public Debt in the Western Balkans: 15 Years of Economic Transition

- Zsoka Koczan
- 2015/171: Transforming Non-Renewable Resource Economies (NREs)

- Bill Battaile and Saurabh Mishra
- 2015/170: A Model for Monetary Policy Analysis in Uruguay

- Rafael Portillo and Yulia Ustyugova
- 2015/169: Household Financial Access and Risk Sharing in Nigeria

- Stacy Carlson, Era Dabla-Norris, Mika Saito and Yu Shi
- 2015/168: Does Public Sector Inefficiency Constrain Firm Productivity: Evidence from Italian Provinces

- Raffaela Giordano, Sergi Lanau, Pietro Tommasino and Petia Topalova
- 2015/167: Default Premium

- Luis Catão and Rui Mano
- 2015/166: From Systemic Banking Crises to Fiscal Costs: Risk Factors

- David Amaglobeli, Nicolas End, Mariusz Jarmuzek and Geremia Palomba
- 2015/165: Systemic Risk, Aggregate Demand, and Commodity Prices

- Javier Gómez-Pineda, Dominique Guillaume and Kadir Tanyeri
- 2015/164: Macroeconomic Challenges of Structural Transformation: Public Investment, Growth and Debt Sustainability in Sierra Leone

- Lacina Balma and Mthuli Ncube
- 2015/163: Joining the Club? Procyclicality of Private Capital Inflows in Low Income Developing Countries

- Juliana Araujo, Antonio David, Carlos Eduardo van Hombeeck and Chris Papageorgiou
- 2015/162: The German Labor Market Reforms and Post-Unemployment Earnings

- Niklas Engbom, Enrica Detragiache and Faezeh Raei
- 2015/161: Price and Income Elasticity of Indian Exports—The Role of Supply-Side Bottlenecks

- Mehdi Raissi and Volodymyr Tulin
- 2015/160: Drivers of Financial Integration – Implications for Asia

- Nasha Ananchotikul, Shi Piao and Edda Zoli
- 2015/159: Can Foreign Exchange Intervention Stem Exchange Rate Pressures from Global Capital Flow Shocks?

- Olivier Blanchard, Gustavo Adler and Irineu de Carvalho Filho
- 2015/158: Should Korea Worry about a Permanently Weak Yen?

- Jack Ree, Gee Hee Hong and Seoeun Choi
- 2015/157: The Impact of IMF-Supported Programs on FDI in Low-income Countries

- Ali Al-Sadiq
- 2015/156: The Dog That Didn’t Bark: The Strange Case of Domestic Policy Cooperation in the “New Normal”

- Tamim Bayoumi
- 2015/155: Emerging Market Heterogeneity: Insights from Cluster and Taxonomy Analysis

- Zhongxia Zhang and Yuan Gao
- 2015/154: LTV and DTI Limits—Going Granular

- Luis Jácome and Srobona Mitra
- 2015/153: Financial Factors: Implications for Output Gaps

- Pau Rabanal and Marzie Taheri Sanjani
- 2015/152: The Quest for the Holy Grail: Efficient and Equitable Fiscal Consolidation in India

- Chadi Abdallah, David Coady, Sanjeev Gupta and Emine Hanedar
- 2015/151: China’s Labor Market in the “New Normal”

- Waikei Lam, Xiaoguang Liu and Alfred Schipke
- 2015/150: Banks in The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model

- Michal Andrle, Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton and Dirk Muir
- 2015/149: Network Effects of International Shocks and Spillovers

- Alexei Kireyev and Andrei Leonidov
- 2015/148: What Slice of the Pie? The Corporate Bond Market Boom in Emerging Economies

- Diana Ayala Pena, Milan Nedeljkovic and Christian Saborowski
- 2015/147: Designing Legal Frameworks for Public Debt Management

- Elsie Addo Awadzi
- 2015/146: Designing Effective Macroprudential Stress Tests: Progress So Far and the Way Forward

- Dimitri Demekas
- 2015/145: How Does Post-Crisis Bank Capital Adequacy Affect Firm Investment?

- Yangfan Sun and Hui Tong
- 2015/144: A New Methodology for Estimating the Output Gap in the United States

- Ali Alichi
- 2015/143: The Macroeconomic Relevance of Credit Flows: An Exploration of U.S. Data

- Alexander Herman, Deniz Igan and Juan Sole
- 2015/142: Systemic Risk: A New Trade-off for Monetary Policy?

- Stefan Laséen, Andrea Pescatori and Jarkko Turunen
- 2015/141: Global Financial Spillovers to Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Markets

- Christian Ebeke and Annette Kyobe
- 2015/140: Assessing Default Risks for Chinese Firms: A Lost Cause?

- Daniel Law and Shaun Roache
- 2015/139: Does Easing Monetary Policy Increase Financial Instability?

- Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi and Alessandro Rebucci
- 2015/138: Estimation and out-of-sample Prediction of Sudden Stops: Do Regions of Emerging Markets Behave Differently from Each Other?

- Fabio Comelli
- 2015/137: What Really Drives Public Debt: A Holistic Approach

- Pablo Anaya Longaric and Alex Pienkowski
- 2015/136: The Journey to Inflation Targeting: Easier Said than Done The Case for Transitional Arrangements along the Road

- Bernard Laurens, Kelly Eckhold, Darryl King, Nils Maehle, Abdul Naseer and Alain Durré
- 2015/135: Lower for Longer: Neutral Rates in the United States

- Andrea Pescatori and Jarkko Turunen
- 2015/134: Avoiding Dark Corners: A Robust Monetary Policy Framework for the United States

- Ali Alichi, Kevin Clinton, Charles Freedman, Ondrej Kamenik, Michel Juillard, Douglas Laxton, Jarkko Turunen and Hou Wang
- 2015/133: Global Food Prices and Domestic Inflation: Some Cross-Country Evidence

- Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, John Simon and Susan Wachter
- 2015/132: Inflation-Forecast Targeting: Applying the Principle of Transparency

- Kevin Clinton, Charles Freedman, Michel Juillard, Ondrej Kamenik, Douglas Laxton and Hou Wang
- 2015/131: The Leap of the Tiger: How Malaysia Can Escape the Middle-Income Trap

- Reda Cherif and Fuad Hasanov
- 2015/130: Unveiling the Effects of Foreign Exchange Intervention: A Panel Approach

- Gustavo Adler, Noëmie Lisack and Rui Mano
- 2015/129: Monetary Policy in India: Transmission to Bank Interest Rates

- Sonali Das
- 2015/128: Gauging Housing Supply in Canada: A Stock Approach

- Julien Reynaud
- 2015/127: Push Factors and Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: Why Knowing Your Lender Matters More Than Fundamentals

- Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens and Damien Puy
- 2015/126: Pension Reforms in Mauritius: Fair and Fast—Balancing Social Protection and Fiscal Sustainability

- Mauricio Soto, Vimal Thakoor and Martin Petri
- 2015/125: Enhancing Macroeconomic Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Small States of the Pacific

- Ezequiel Cabezon, Leni Hunter, Patrizia Tumbarello, Kazuaki Washimi and Yiqun Wu
- 2015/124: Strengthening Fiscal Frameworks and Improving the Spending Mix in Small States

- Ezequiel Cabezon, Patrizia Tumbarello and Yiqun Wu
- 2015/123: Experiences with Macroprudential Policy—Five Case Studies

- Salim Darbar and Xiaoyong Wu
- 2015/122: Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Did the Walk Match the Talk under the PRSP Approach?

- Daouda Sembene
- 2015/121: Crime and the Economy in Mexican States: Heterogeneous Panel Estimates (1993-2012)

- Concha Verdugo Yepes, Peter Pedroni and Xingwei Hu
- 2015/120: An Overview of Islamic Finance

- Mumtaz Hussain, Asghar Shahmoradi and Rima Turk Ariss
- 2015/119: Make in India: Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth?

- Rahul Anand, Kalpana Kochhar and Saurabh Mishra
- 2015/118: Base Erosion, Profit Shifting and Developing Countries

- Ernesto Crivelli, Ruud de Mooij and Michael Keen
- 2015/117: Sub-National Government’s Risk Premia: Does Fiscal Performance Matter?

- Sergio Sola and Geremia Palomba
- 2015/116: U.S. Total Factor Productivity Slowdown: Evidence from the U.S. States

- Roberto Cardarelli and Lusine Lusinyan
- 2015/115: New Energy Sources for Jordan: Macroeconomic Impact and Policy Considerations

- Andrea Gamba
- 2015/114: (Not) Dancing Together: Monetary Policy Stance and the Government Spending Multiplier

- Vincent Belinga and Constant Lonkeng Ngouana
- 2015/113: China’s Growth: Can Goldilocks Outgrow Bears?

- Wojciech Maliszewski and Longmei Zhang
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