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2013/084: Italian Sovereign Spreads: Their Determinants and Pass-through to Bank Funding Costs and Lending Conditions

Edda Zoli

2013/083: China’s Path to Consumer-Based Growth: Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency

Il Lee, Murtaza Syed and Liu Xueyan

2013/082: China’s Demography and its Implications

Il Lee, Xu Qingjun and Murtaza Syed

2013/081: Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe

Adolfo Barajas, Thorsten Beck, Era Dabla-Norris and Seyed Reza Yousefi

2013/080: Current Account Norms in Natural Resource Rich and Capital Scarce Economies

Juliana Araujo, Grace Li, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2013/079: The Day After Tomorrow: Designing an Optimal Fiscal Strategy for Libya

Carlos Caceres, Serhan Cevik, Marco Committeri and Borja Gracia

2013/078: Hitchhiker’s Guide to Inflation in Libya

Serhan Cevik and Katerina Teksoz

2013/077: Measuring and Mending Monetary Policy Effectiveness Under Capital Account Restrictions: Lessons from Mauritania

Robert Blotevogel

2013/076: The Global Financial Crisis: An Anatomy of Global Growth

Troy Matheson

2013/075: How Effective are Macroprudential Policies in China?

Bin Wang and Tao Sun

2013/074: Rebalancing: Evidence from Current Account Adjustment in Europe

Ruben Atoyan, Jonathan Manning and Jesmin Rahman

2013/073: Aid, Exports, and Growth: A Time-Series Perspective on the Dutch Disease Hypothesis

Joong Kang, Alessandro Prati and Alessandro Rebucci

2013/072: Non-Performing Loans in CESEE: Determinants and Impact on Macroeconomic Performance

Nir Klein

2013/071: Growth Slowdowns and the Middle-Income Trap

Shekhar Aiyar, Romain Duval, Damien Puy, Yiqun Wu and Longmei Zhang

2013/070: Factors Influencing Emerging Market Central Banks’ Decision to Intervene in Foreign Exchange Markets

Matthew Malloy

2013/069: The Economics of Political Transitions: Implications for the Arab Spring

Padamja Khandelwal and Agustin Roitman

2013/068: A Framework for Macroprudential Bank Solvency Stress Testing: Application to S-25 and Other G-20 Country FSAPs

Andreas Jobst, Li Ong and Christian Schmieder

2013/067: The Challenge of Debt Reduction during Fiscal Consolidation

Luc Eyraud and Anke Weber

2013/066: The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks on the UK Economy

Stephanie Denis and Prakash Kannan

2013/065: Rules, Discretion, and Macro-Prudential Policy

Itai Agur and Sunil Sharma

2013/064: Rating Through-the-Cycle: What does the Concept Imply for Rating Stability and Accuracy?

John Kiff, Michael Kisser and Liliana Schumacher

2013/063: Stock-Flow Adjustments, Government’s Integrated Balance Sheet and Fiscal Transparency

Mike Seiferling

2013/062: Export Performance in Europe: What Do We Know from Supply Links?

Jesmin Rahman and Tianli Zhao

2013/061: Forecasting and Monetary Policy Analysis in Low-Income Countries: Food and non-Food Inflation in Kenya

Michal Andrle, Andrew Berg, Rogelio Morales, Rafael Portillo and Jan Vlcek

2013/060: Quarterly GDP Revisions in G-20 Countries: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis

Manik Shrestha and Marco Marini

2013/059: External Linkages and Policy Constraints in Saudi Arabia

Niklas Westelius

2013/058: A Framework for Efficient Government Investment

Andrew Warner

2013/057: Targeting, Cascading, and Indirect Tax Design

Michael Keen

2013/056: Information Rigidities in Economic Growth Forecasts: Evidence from a Large International Panel

Jonas Dovern, Ulrich Fritsche, Prakash Loungani and Natalia Tamirisa

2013/055: Getting to Know GIMF: The Simulation Properties of the Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model

Derek Anderson, Benjamin Hunt, Mika Kortelainen, Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir, Susanna Mursula and Stephen Snudden

2013/054: Systemic Contingent Claims Analysis: Estimating Market-Implied Systemic Risk

Andreas Jobst and Dale Gray

2013/053: The Quality of the Recent High-Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa

Marcelo Martinez and Montfort Mlachila

2013/052: Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment: The Case of Developing Countries

Ali Al-Sadiq

2013/051: Benchmarking Banking Sector Efficiency Across Regional Blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Room for Policy?

François Boutin-Dufresne, Santiago Peña, Oral Williams and Tomasz A. Zawisza

2013/050: The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries

Alberto Behar

2013/049: Fiscal Multipliers in Bulgaria: Low But Still Relevant

Dirk Muir and Anke Weber

2013/048: Taxation, Bank Leverage, and Financial Crises

Ruud de Mooij, Michael Keen and Masanori Orihara

2013/047: Financial Stability In An Evolving Regulatory And Supervisory Landscape

Yingbin Xiao

2013/046: Too Small to Fail? Subnational Spending Pressures in Europe

Luc Eyraud and Marialuz Moreno Badia

2013/045: Asset Price Bubbles: A Selective Survey

Anna Scherbina

2013/044: Dealing with Private Debt Distress in the Wake of the European Financial Crisis A Review of the Economics and Legal Toolbox

Yan Liu and Christoph Rosenberg

2013/043: Structural Transformation and the Volatility of Aggregate Output in OECD Countries

Constant Lonkeng Ngouana

2013/042: Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany

Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel

2013/041: Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5: What are the Links?

Dulani Seneviratne and Yan Sun

2013/040: Growth and Employment in the Dominican Republic: Options for a Job-Rich Growth

Umidjon Abdullaev and Marcello Estevão

2013/039: Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the East African Community: An Empirical Investigation

Hamid Davoodi, S. V. S. Dixit and Gabor Pinter

2013/038: Global House Price Fluctuations: Synchronization and Determinants

Hideaki Hirata, Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok and Marco Terrones

2013/037: Competition among Exchanges and Enforcement Policy

Cecilia Caglio and Andrea Pescatori

2013/036: Fiscal Consolidation and the Cost of Credit: Evidence from Syndicated Loans

Senay Agca and Deniz Igan

2013/035: Boosting Competitiveness to Grow Out of Debt: Can Ireland Find a Way Back to Its Future?

Mwanza Nkusu

2013/034: Determinants of Bank Interest Margins in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calixte Ahokpossi

2013/033: International Reserves and Rollover Risk

Javier Bianchi, Juan Hatchondo and Leonardo Martinez

2013/032: Exchange Rate Liberalization in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries Successes, Failures, and Lessons

Nils Maehle, Haimanot Teferra and Armine Khachatryan

2013/031: Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area

Jorge Canales Kriljenko, Farayi Gwenhamo and Saji Thomas

2013/030: Wholesale Bank Funding, Capital Requirements and Credit Rationing

Itai Agur

2013/029: Revisiting the Link Between Finance and Macroeconomic Volatility

Era Dabla-Norris and Narapong Srivisal

2013/028: Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications

Stijn Claessens and Ayhan Kose

2013/027: External Conditions and Debt Sustainability in Latin America

Gustavo Adler and Sebastian Sosa

2013/026: Chronicle of a Decline Foretold: Has China Reached the Lewis Turning Point?

Mitali Das and Papa N'Diaye

2013/025: The Changing Collateral Space

Manmohan Singh

2013/024: Income Mobility and Welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

2013/023: Assessing the Determinants of Interest Rate Transmission Through Conditional Impulse Response Functions

Christian Saborowski and Sebastian Weber

2013/022: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms The Case of Italy

Lusine Lusinyan and Dirk Muir

2013/021: Inflation Targeting and Country Risk: An Empirical Investigation

Armand Fouejieu and Scott Roger

2013/020: You Never Give Me Your Money? Sovereign Debt Crises, Collective Action Problems, and IMF Lending

Marco Committeri and Francesco Spadafora

2013/019: Regionalization vs. Globalization

Hideaki Hirata, Ayhan Kose and Christopher Otrok

2013/018: Macroprudential Policies for a Resource Rich Economy The Case of Mongolia

Rodolfo Maino, Patrick Imam and Yasuhisa Ojima

2013/017: A Fiscal Stimulus and Jobless Recovery

Cristiano Cantore, Paul Levine and Giovanni Melina

2013/016: Liquidity and Transparency in Bank Risk Management

Lev Ratnovski

2013/015: Recent Improvements to the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook Database in Response to Analytical Needs

Mike Seiferling

2013/014: Connected to Whom? International Interbank Borrowing During the Global Crisis

Kalin Tintchev

2013/013: Explaining ASEAN-3’s Investment Puzzle A Tale of Two Sectors

Yong Sarah Zhou

2013/012: Bond Markets in Africa

Yibin Mu, Peter Phelps and Janet Stotsky

2013/011: Modeling Sterilized Interventions and Balance Sheet Effects of Monetary Policy in a New-Keynesian Framework

Jaromir Benes, Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo and David Vavra

2013/010: Okun's Law: Fit at 50?

Laurence Ball, Daniel Leigh and Prakash Loungani

2013/009: Banks’ Foreign Credit Exposures and Borrowers’ Rollover Risks Measurement, Evolution and Determinants

Eugenio Cerutti

2013/008: The Behavior of Currencies during Risk-off Episodes

Reinout De Bock and Irineu de Carvalho Filho

2013/007: New Zealand Banks’ Vulnerabilities and Capital Adequacy

B. Jang and Masahiko Kataoka

2013/006: Why are the G-20 Data Gaps Initiative and the SDDS Plus Relevant for Financial Stability Analysis?

Robert Heath

2013/005: A Modern History of Fiscal Prudence and Profligacy

Paolo Mauro, Rafael Romeu, Ariel Binder and Asad Zaman

2013/004: Macroeconomic Model Spillovers and Their Discontents

Tamim Bayoumi and Francis Vitek

2013/003: Capital Requirements for Over-the-Counter Derivatives Central Counterparties

Li Lin and Jay Surti

2013/002: Breaking the Curse of Sisyphus: An Empirical Analysis of Post-Conflict Economic Transitions

Serhan Cevik and Mohammad Rahmati

2013/001: Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers

Olivier Blanchard and Daniel Leigh

2012/303: Macroprudential Policies and Housing Price: A New Database and Empirical Evidence for Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe

Jerome Vandenbussche, Ursula Vogel and Enrica Detragiache

2012/302: Accounting for Reserves

Tamim Bayoumi and Christian Saborowski

2012/301: The Determinants of Banks' Liquidity Buffers in Central America

Corinne Delechat, Camila Henao Arbelaez, Priscilla Muthoora and Svetlana Vtyurina

2012/300: The Rising Resilience of Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Abdul Abiad, John Bluedorn, Jaime Guajardo and Petia Topalova

2012/299: Bank Debt in Europe: “Are Funding Models Broken”

Vanessa Le Lesle

2012/298: Global Bonding: Do U.S. Bond and Equity Spillovers Dominate Global Financial Markets?

Tamim Bayoumi and Trung Bui

2012/297: Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Alberto Behar and Benjamin Nelson

2012/296: Information Rigidity and the Expectations Formation Process: A Simple Framework and New Facts

Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

2012/295: Income and Democracy: Lipset's Law Revisited

Anke Hoeffler, Robert Bates and Ghada Fayad

2012/294: Optimal Oil Production and the World Supply of Oil

Nikolay Aleksandrov, Lajos Gyurko and Raphael Espinoza

2012/293: Global Financial Crisis, Financial Contagion, and Emerging Markets

Gulcin Ozkan and Filiz Unsal

2012/292: Spring Forward or Fall Back? The Post-Crisis Recovery of Firms

Leandro Medina

2012/291: What Role Can Financial Policies Play in Revitalizing SMEs in Japan?

Waikei Lam and Jongsoon Shin

2012/290: Inequalities and Growth in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Region

Olivier Basdevant, Dalmacio Benicio and Yorbol Yakhshilikov

2012/289: Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies: Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments

Michael Keen and Christos Kotsogiannis

2012/288: The Need for "Un-consolidating" Consolidated Banks' Stress Tests

Eugenio Cerutti and Christian Schmieder