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2014/111: Financial Plumbing and Monetary Policy

Manmohan Singh

2014/110: Tax Buoyancy in OECD Countries

Vincent Belinga, Dora Benedek, Ruud de Mooij and John Norregaard

2014/109: Impact of Fed Tapering Announcements on Emerging Markets

Prachi Mishra, Kenji Moriyama, Papa N'Diaye and Lam Nguyen

2014/108: Monetary Policy in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Kazakhstan

Natan Epstein and Rafael Portillo

2014/107: Structural Balance Targeting and Output Gap Uncertainty

Eugen Tereanu, Anita Tuladhar and Alejandro Simone

2014/106: The Net Stable Funding Ratio: Impact and Issues for Consideration

Jeanne Gobat, Mamoru Yanase and Joseph Maloney

2014/105: Determinants of Interest Rate Spreads in Solomon Islands

Nooman Rebei

2014/104: The Tax-adjusted Q Model with Intangible Assets: Theory and Evidence from Temporary Investment Tax Incentives

Sophia Chen and Estelle Dauchy

2014/103: How to Capture Macro-Financial Spillover Effects in Stress Tests?

Heiko Hesse, Ferhan Salman and Christian Schmieder

2014/102: An Application of the "Fan-Chart Approach" to Debt Sustainability in Post-HIPC Low-Income Countries

Maximilien Kaffo Melou, Mariusz Sumlinski and Chris Geiregat

2014/101: National Income and Its Distribution

Markus Brückner, Era Dabla-Norris and Mark Gradstein

2014/100: Economic Impact of Selected Conflicts in the Middle East: What Can We Learn from the Past?

Randa Sab

2014/099: Ms. Muffet, the Spider(gram) and the Web of Macro-Financial Linkages

Ricardo Cervantes, Phakawa Jeasakul, Joseph Maloney and Li Ong

2014/098: Small and Medium Size Enterprises, Credit Supply Shocks, and Economic Recovery in Europe

Nir Klein

2014/097: After the Fall: Lessons for Policy Cooperation from the Global Crisis

Tamim Bayoumi

2014/096: Inflation and Public Debt Reversals in the G7 Countries

Bernardin Akitoby, Takuji Komatsuzaki and Ariel Binder

2014/095: Managing Credit Bubbles

Alberto Martin and Jaume Ventura

2014/094: Does Openness Matter for Financial Development in Africa?

Antonio David, Montfort Mlachila and Ashwin Moheeput

2014/093: A Simple Method to Compute Fiscal Multipliers

Nicoletta Batini, Luc Eyraud and Anke Weber

2014/092: The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent

Laurence Ball

2014/091: Inflation Reports and Models: How Well Do Central Banks Really Write?

Ales Bulir, Jaromír Hurník and Katerina Smidkova

2014/090: Optimal Prudential Regulation of Banks and the Political Economy of Supervision

Thierry Tressel and Thierry Verdier

2014/089: Inflation Targeting and Fiscal Rules: Do Interactions and Sequencing Matter?

Jean-Louis Combes, Xavier Debrun, Alexandru Minea and René Tapsoba

2014/088: Financial Constraints, Intangible Assets, and Firm Dynamics: Theory and Evidence

Sophia Chen

2014/087: Central Bank Financial Strength in Central America and the Dominican Republic

Andrew Swiston, Florencia Frantischek, Przemek Gajdeczka and Alexander Herman

2014/086: Are Banks Really Lazy? Evidence from Middle East and North Africa

Simon Gray, Philippe Karam and Rima Turk Ariss

2014/085: Fiscal Adjustment and Income Inequality: Sub-national Evidence from Brazil

João Pedro Azevedo, Antonio David, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos and Emilio Pineda

2014/084: Time-Varying Neutral Interest Rate—The Case of Brazil

Roberto Perrelli and Shaun Roache

2014/083: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Macroprudential Tools at Work in Canada

Ivo Krznar and James Morsink

2014/082: Determinants of International Tourism

Alexander Culiuc

2014/081: Safe Havens, Feedback Loops, and Shock Propagation in Global Asset Prices

Franziska Ohnsorge, Marcin Wolski and Yuanyan Zhang

2014/080: Export Spillovers from Global Shocks for the Middle East and Central Asia

Alberto Behar and Jaime Espinosa-Bowen

2014/079: European Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness: The Case of Italy

Andrew Tiffin

2014/078: SMEs’ Access to Finance in the Euro Area: What Helps or Hampers?

Bahar Öztürk and Mico Mrkaic

2014/077: Hysteresis in Unemployment and Jobless Recoveries

Dmitry Plotnikov

2014/076: Transmission of Financial Stress in Europe: The Pivotal Role of Italy and Spain, but not Greece

Brenda Gonzalez-Hermosillo and Christian Johnson

2014/075: China’s Monetary Policy and Interest Rate Liberalization: Lessons from International Experiences

Wei Liao and Sampawende Tapsoba

2014/074: The Role of Country Concentration in the International Portfolio Investment Positions for the European Union Members

Iuliia Brushko and Yuko Hashimoto

2014/073: Public Investment, Public Finance, and Growth: The Impact of Distortionary Taxation, Recurrent Costs, and Incomplete Appropriability

Christopher Adam and David Bevan

2014/072: Commercial Property Price Indexes: Problems of Sparse Data, Spatial Spillovers, and Weighting

Mick Silver and Brian Graf

2014/071: Bank Funding Costs for International Banks

Rita Babihuga and Marco Spaltro

2014/070: Monetary Policy Coordination and the Role of Central Banks

Rakesh Mohan and Muneesh Kapur

2014/069: Global Liquidity and Drivers of Cross-Border Bank Flows

Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens and Lev Ratnovski

2014/068: India’s Recent Macroeconomic Performance: An Assessment and Way Forward

Muneesh Kapur and Rakesh Mohan

2014/067: Does Demand Volatility Lower Growth and Raise Inflation? Evidence from the Caribbean

Magda Kandil

2014/066: Official Demand for U.S. Debt: Implications for U.S. Real Interest Rates

Iryna Kaminska and Gabriele Zinna

2014/065: Comparing the Performance of Logit and Probit Early Warning Systems for Currency Crises in Emerging Market Economies

Fabio Comelli

2014/064: Income Inequality, Fiscal Decentralization and Transfer Dependency

Caroline-Antonia Goerl and Mike Seiferling

2014/063: India: Defining and Explaining Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction

Rahul Anand, Volodymyr Tulin and Naresh Kumar

2014/062: Cross-Country Experience in Reducing Net Foreign Liabilities: Lessons for New Zealand

Ding Ding, Werner Schule and Yan Sun

2014/061: Exchange Rate Flexibility and Credit during Capital Inflow Reversals: Purgatory…not Paradise

Nicolas Magud and Esteban Vesperoni

2014/060: Global Financial Shocks and Foreign Asset Repatriation: Do Local Investors Play a Stabilizing Role?

Gustavo Adler, Marie-Louise Djigbenou and Sebastian Sosa

2014/059: Fiscal Policy in Latin America over the Cycle

Alexander Klemm

2014/058: Strengthening Post-Crisis Fiscal Credibility: Fiscal Councils on the Rise — A New Dataset

Xavier Debrun and Tidiane Kinda

2014/057: Financial Crises in DSGE Models: A Prototype Model

Jaromir Benes, Michael Kumhof and Douglas Laxton

2014/056: Financial Crises in DSGE Models: Selected Applications of MAPMOD

Jaromir Benes, Michael Kumhof and Douglas Laxton

2014/055: Inflation Persistence in Brazil - A Cross Country Comparison

Shaun Roache

2014/054: How can Korea Boost Potential Output to Ensure Continued Income Convergence?

Sonali Jain-Chandra and Longmei Zhang

2014/053: Safe-Haven Korea? - Spillover Effects from UMPs

Jack Ree and Seoeun Choi

2014/052: Trade Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization: A Reappraisal with Focus on Asia

Romain Duval, Kevin Cheng, Kum Hwa Oh and Richa Saraf

2014/051: Surging Investment and Declining Aid: Evaluating Debt Sustainability in Rwanda

John Clark JR and Birgir Arnason

2014/050: Debt Sustainability, Public Investment, and Natural Resources in Developing Countries: the DIGNAR Model

Giovanni Melina, Susan Yang and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2014/049: Fiscal Limits, External Debt, and Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries

Huixin Bi, Wenyi Shen and Susan Yang

2014/048: Assessing Bias and Accuracy in the World Bank-IMF's Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries

Andrew Berg, Enrico Berkes, Catherine Pattillo, Andrea Presbitero and Yorbol Yakhshilikov

2014/047: Disentangling India’s Investment Slowdown

Rahul Anand and Volodymyr Tulin

2014/046: The Regulatory Responses to the Global Financial Crisis: Some Uncomfortable Questions

Stijn Claessens and Laura Kodres

2014/045: Deep Roots of Fiscal Behavior

Serhan Cevik and Katerina Teksoz

2014/044: Efficient Energy Investment and Fiscal Adjustment in Senegal

Salifou Issoufou, Edward Buffie, Mouhamadou Bamba Diop and Kalidou Thiaw

2014/043: From Volatility to Stability in Expenditure: Stabilization Funds in Resource-Rich Countries

Naotaka Sugawara

2014/042: Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Natalie Chen and Luciana Juvenal

2014/041: Managing Income Tax Compliance through Self-Assessment

Andrew Okello

2014/040: Estimating Sri Lanka’s Potential Output

Ding Ding, John Nelmes, Roshan Perera and Volodymyr Tulin

2014/039: Tracking Global Demand for Emerging Market Sovereign Debt

Serkan Arslanalp and Takahiro Tsuda

2014/038: Why Was Asia Resilient? Lessons from the Past and for the Future

Phakawa Jeasakul, Cheng Lim and Erik Lundback

2014/037: Asia’s Stock Markets: Are There Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons?

Fabian Lipinsky and Li Ong

2014/036: Assessing Countries’ Financial Inclusion Standing - A New Composite Index

Alexander Massara and André Mialou

2014/035: Rising BRICs and Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa’s Business Cycle Patterns

Oumar Diallo and Sampawende Tapsoba

2014/034: Debt and Growth: Is There a Magic Threshold?

Andrea Pescatori, Damiano Sandri and John Simon

2014/033: Commodity Price Shocks and Imperfectly Credible Macroeconomic Policies in Commodity-Exporting Small Open Economies

Juan Medina and Claudia Soto

2014/032: Judicial System Reform in Italy - A Key to Growth

Gianluca Esposito, Sergi Lanau and Sebastiaan Pompe

2014/031: Information Rigidities: Comparing Average and Individual Forecasts for a Large International Panel

Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, Prakash Loungani and Natalia Tamirisa

2014/030: Monetary and Macroprudential Policies to Manage Capital Flows

Juan Medina and Jorge Roldos

2014/029: Emerging Market Local Currency Bond Yields and Foreign Holdings in the Post-Lehman Period - a Fortune or Misfortune?

Christian Hubert Ebeke and Yinqiu Lu

2014/028: The U.S. Manufacturing Recovery: Uptick or Renaissance?

Oya Celasun, C. Di Bella, Tim Mahedy and Chris Papageorgiou

2014/027: Foreign Investor Flows and Sovereign Bond Yields in Advanced Economies

Serkan Arslanalp and Tigran Poghosyan

2014/026: Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States and Europe

Mai Dao, Davide Furceri and Prakash Loungani

2014/025: What is Shadow Banking?

Stijn Claessens and Lev Ratnovski

2014/024: Do Forecasters Believe in Okun’s Law? An Assessment of Unemployment and Output Forecasts

Laurence Ball, Joao Jalles and Prakash Loungani

2014/023: Aggregate Stability and Balanced-Budget Rules

Matteo Ghilardi and Raffaele Rossi

2014/022: Leaning Against the Wind: Macroprudential Policy in Asia

Longmei Zhang and Edda Zoli

2014/021: Bulgaria’s EU Funds Absorption: Maximizing the Potential!

Iana Paliova and Tonny Lybek

2014/020: Sub-National Credit Risk and Sovereign Bailouts: Who Pays the Premium?

Eva Jenkner and Zhongjin Lu

2014/019: A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Efficiency of Public Spending on Education in Emerging and Developing Economies

Francesco Grigoli

2014/018: Policy Responses to Aid Surges in Countries with Limited International Capital Mobility: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime

Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2014/017: Sovereign CDS Spreads in Europe: The Role of Global Risk Aversion, Economic Fundamentals, Liquidity, and Spillovers

Frigyes Heinz and Yan Sun

2014/016: Boosting Job Growth in the Western Balkans

Dmitriy Kovtun, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, Zuzana Murgasova, Dustin Smith and Suchanan Tambunlertchai

2014/015: The Quest for Non-Resource-Based FDI: Do Taxes Matter?

Tidiane Kinda

2014/014: Financial Soundness Indicators and the Characteristics of Financial Cycles

Natasha Che and Yoko Shinagawa

2014/013: Remittances and Vulnerability in Developing Countries

Giulia Bettin, Andrea Presbitero and Nikola Spatafora

2014/012: Thin Capitalization Rules and Multinational Firm Capital Structure

Jennifer Blouin, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven and Gaëtan Nicodème