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2012/287: Issues in Extractive Resource Taxation: A Review of Research Methods and Models

James Smith

2012/286: Fiscal Multipliers and the State of the Economy

Anja Baum, Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro and Anke Weber

2012/285: Pension Reforms in Japan

Kenichiro Kashiwase, Masahiro Nozaki and Kiichi Tokuoka

2012/284: Tracking Global Demand for Advanced Economy Sovereign Debt

Serkan Arslanalp and Takahiro Tsuda

2012/283: A Tradeoff between the Output and Current Account Effects of Pension Reform

Mario Catalan and Nicolas Magud

2012/282: Systemic Risk from Global Financial Derivatives: A Network Analysis of Contagion and Its Mitigation with Super-Spreader Tax

Sheri Markose

2012/281: Taxation and Leverage in International Banking

Grace Weishi Gu, Ruud de Mooij and Tigran Poghosyan

2012/280: Striking an Appropriate Balance Among Public Investment, Growth, and Debt Sustainability in Cape Verde

Yibin Mu

2012/279: Nonfinancial Firms in Latin America: A Source of Vulnerability?

Maria Gonzalez

2012/278: Modeling the Impact of Taxes on Petroleum Exploration and Development

James Smith

2012/277: Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter?

Il Lee, Murtaza Syed and Liu Xueyan

2012/276: The Challenges of Fiscal Consolidation and Debt Reduction in the Caribbean

Charles Amo Yartey, Machiko Narita, Shelton Nicholls and Joel Chiedu Okwuokei

2012/275: Effects of Capital Flow Liberalization: What is the Evidence from Recent Experiences of Emerging Market Economies?

Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Tao Sun

2012/274: Public Investment in Resource-Abundant Developing Countries

Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, Susan Yang and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2012/273: Fiscal Rules at a Glance: Country Details from a New Dataset

Nina Budina, Tidiane Kinda, Andrea Schaechter and Anke Weber

2012/272: The East African Community: Prospects for Sustained Growth

Catherine McAuliffe, Sweta Saxena and Masafumi Yabara

2012/271: Long-Run and Short-Run Determinants of Sovereign Bond Yields in Advanced Economies

Tigran Poghosyan

2012/270: On the Sources and Consequences of Oil Price Shocks: The Role of Storage

Deren Ünalmış, Ibrahim Unalmis and Filiz Unsal

2012/269: Shock Therapy! What Role for Thai Monetary Policy?

Harun Alp and Selim Elekdag

2012/268: FX Funding Risks and Exchange Rate Volatility–Korea’s Case

Jack Ree, Kyoungsoo Yoon and Hail Park

2012/267: Investment-Led Growth in China: Global Spillovers

Ashvin Ahuja and Malhar Nabar

2012/266: The Spillover Effects of a Downturn in China’s Real Estate Investment

Ashvin Ahuja and Alla Myrvoda

2012/265: The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Transmission Under Capital Inflows: Evidence from Asia

Sonali Jain-Chandra and Filiz Unsal

2012/264: Exogenous Shocks and Growth Crises in Low-Income Countries: A Vulnerability Index

Era Dabla-Norris and Yasemin Bal Gündüz

2012/263: Allocating Business Income between Capital and Labor under a Dual Income Tax: The Case of Iceland

Thornton Matheson and Pall Kollbeins

2012/262: The Evolution of Asian Financial Linkages: Key Determinants and the Role of Policy

Selim Elekdag, Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul and Yiqun Wu

2012/261: Performance of Publicly Listed Chilean Firms During the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis

Yi Wu

2012/260: Measures of Fiscal Risk in Hydrocarbon-Exporting Countries

Carlos Caceres and Leandro Medina

2012/259: Customs Administration Reform and Modernization in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1995–2010

Gilles Montagnat-Rentier and Gilles Parent

2012/258: The Domestic Credit Supply Response to International Bank Deleveraging: Is Asia Different?

Shekhar Aiyar and Sonali Jain-Chandra

2012/257: Tax Composition and Growth: A Broad Cross-Country Perspective

Santiago Acosta Ormaechea

2012/256: Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures

Michael Kumhof and Dirk Muir

2012/255: The Global Impact of the Systemic Economies and MENA Business Cycles

Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

2012/254: Financial Spillovers to Chile

Jiri Podpiera

2012/253: The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy

Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes, Mehdi Raissi and Maziar Raissi

2012/252: Globalization and Corporate Taxation

Manmohan Kumar and Dennis Quinn

2012/251: Workers’ Remittances: An Overlooked Channel of International Business Cycle Transmission?

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Ebeke and Sampawende Tapsoba

2012/250: Social Spending in Korea: Can it Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth?

Selim Elekdag

2012/249: Financing Growth in the WAEMU Through the Regional Securities Market: Past Successes and Current Challenges

Mame Astou Diouf and François Boutin-Dufresne

2012/248: Can Women Save Japan?

Chad Steinberg and Masato Nakane

2012/247: Ukraine Gas Pricing Policy: Distributional Consequences of Tariff Increases

Pritha Mitra and Ruben Atoyan

2012/246: Exploring the Dynamics of Global Liquidity

Sally Chen, Philip Liu, Andrea Maechler, Chris Marsh, Sergejs Saksonovs and Hyun Song Shin

2012/245: Natural Disasters: Mitigating Impact, Managing Risks

Nicole Laframboise and Boileau Loko

2012/244: Jamaica Debt Exchange

David Grigorian, Trevor Alleyne and Alejandro Guerson

2012/243: To Cut or Not to Cut? That is the (Central Bank’s) Question In Search of the Neutral Interest Rate in Latin America

Nicolas Magud and Evridiki Tsounta

2012/242: The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows: New Evidence from the SDDS

Yuko Hashimoto and Konstantin Wacker

2012/241: Sovereign Risk and Asset and Liability Management: Conceptual Issues

Udaibir Das, Yinqiu Lu, Michael Papaioannou and Iva Petrova

2012/240: Deciding to Enter a Monetary Union: TheRole of Trade and Financial Linkages

Ruy Lama and Pau Rabanal

2012/239: Tests of German Resilience

Fabian Bornhorst and Ashoka Mody

2012/238: Banking and Trading

Arnoud Boot and Lev Ratnovski

2012/237: Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Role of Labor Market Frictions

Emine Boz, C. Bora Durdu and Nan Li

2012/236: External Imbalances in the Euro Area

Ruo Chen, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Thierry Tressel

2012/235: Caribbean Growth in an International Perspective: The Role of Tourism and Size

Nita Thacker, Sebastian Acevedo and Roberto Perrelli

2012/234: Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic: Trade Integration and Economic Performance

Stephanie Medina Cas, Andrew Swiston and Luis-Diego Barrot

2012/233: Assessing the Cost of Financial Regulation

Douglas Elliott and Andre Santos

2012/232: Structural Reforms, IMF Programs and Capacity Building: An Empirical Investigation

Rabah Arezki, Marc Quintyn and Frederik Toscani

2012/231: Education Attainment in Public Administration Around the World: Evidence from a New Dataset

Rabah Arezki, Herbert Lui, Marc Quintyn and Frederik Toscani

2012/230: Public Debt Dynamics: The Effects of Austerity, Inflation, and Growth Shocks

Fuad Hasanov and Reda Cherif

2012/229: Puts in the Shadow

Manmohan Singh

2012/228: Some Algebra of Fiscal Transparency: How Accounting Devices Work and How to Reveal Them

Timothy Irwin

2012/227: Determinants of Growth Spells: Is Africa Different?

Charalambos Tsangarides

2012/226: The Exchange Rate Pass -Through to Import and Export Prices: The Role of Nominal Rigidities and Currency Choice

Ehsan Choudhri and Dalia Hakura

2012/225: Inflation Responses to Commodity Price Shocks: How and Why Do Countries Differ?

R. Gaston Gelos and Yulia Ustyugova

2012/224: Brazil’s Capital Market: Current Status and Issues for Further Development

Joonkyu Park

2012/223: Small Island States in the Pacific: the Tyranny of Distance

Chris Becker

2012/222: The Pre-Crisis Capital Flow Surge to Emerging Europe: Did Countercyclical Fiscal Policy Make a Difference?

Ruben Atoyan, Dustin Smith and Albert Jaeger

2012/221: The Trade Impact of China on EMU: Is It Even Across Members?

Esther Perez Ruiz and Uffe Mikkelsen

2012/220: Taxation and Development: Again

Michael Keen

2012/219: Dissecting Saving Dynamics: Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects

Christopher Carroll, Martin Sommer and Jiri Slacalek

2012/218: Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis

Davide Furceri, Ernesto Crivelli and Joël Toujas-Bernate

2012/217: Global Housing Cycles

Deniz Igan and Prakash Loungani

2012/216: A New Heuristic Measure of Fragility and Tail Risks: Application to Stress Testing

Christian Schmieder, Tidiane Kinda, Nassim Taleb, Elena Loukoianova and Elie Canetti

2012/215: What Drives the POLONIA Spread in Poland?

Yinqiu Lu

2012/214: Exchange Rate Fluctuations and International Portfolio Rebalancing in Thailand

Jacob Gyntelberg, Subhanij Tientip and Mico Loretan

2012/213: Private Information, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates

Jacob Gyntelberg, Subhanij Tientip and Mico Loretan

2012/212: Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: Estimation and Back-testing

Fabio Comelli

2012/211: What (Really) Accounts for the Fall in Hours After a Technology Shock?

Nooman Rebei

2012/210: Effects of Culture on Firm Risk-Taking: A Cross-Country and Cross-Industry Analysis

Roxana Mihet

2012/209: Measuring Systemic Risk-Adjusted Liquidity (SRL): A Model Approach

Andreas Jobst

2012/208: Exchange Rate and Foreign Interest Rate Linkages for Sub-Saharan Africa Floaters

Alun Thomas

2012/207: The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications

Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gee Hee Hong

2012/206: Household Production, Services and Monetary Policy

Constant Lonkeng Ngouana

2012/205: How much should I hold? Reserve Adequacy in Emerging Markets and Small Islands

Nkunde Mwase

2012/204: Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation

Kurt Annen and Luc Moers

2012/203: Sovereign Debt Restructurings 1950-2010: Literature Survey, Data, and Stylized Facts

Christoph Trebesch, Michael Papaioannou and Udaibir Das

2012/202: The Chicago Plan Revisited

Michael Kumhof and Jaromir Benes

2012/201: Reforming the Public Pension System in the Russian Federation

Frank Eich, Mauricio Soto and Charleen Gust

2012/200: Resource Windfalls, Optimal Public Investment and Redistribution: The Role of Total Factor Productivity and Administrative Capacity

Alan Gelb, Arnaud Dupuy and Rabah Arezki

2012/199: Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S

John Silvia, Lorenz Kueng, Olivier Coibion and Yuriy Gorodnichenko

2012/198: Bond Yields in Emerging Economies: It Matters What State You Are In

Laura Jaramillo and Anke Weber

2012/197: Intergenerational Implications of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan

Kiichi Tokuoka

2012/196: A Financial Conditions Index for South Africa

Nombulelo Gumata, Eliphas Ndou and Nir Klein

2012/195: Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Robert Townsend, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Tobacman, Xavier Gine, James Vickery and Petia Topalova

2012/194: Measuring Systemic Liquidity Risk and the Cost of Liquidity Insurance

Tiago Severo

2012/193: Latin America: Vulnerabilities Under Construction?

Luis Cubeddu, Camilo Tovar and Evridiki Tsounta

2012/192: Inflation Dynamics in Mongolia: Understanding the Roller Coaster

Julia Bersch, Steven Barnett and Yasuhisa Ojima

2012/191: Lost in Transmission? The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Transmission Channels in the GCC Countries

Serhan Cevik and Katerina Teksoz

2012/190: Successful Austerity in the United States, Europe and Japan

Giovanni Callegari, Giovanni Melina and Nicoletta Batini

2012/189: On Price Stability and Welfare

Etienne Yehoue

2012/188: Riding Global Financial Waves: The Economic Impact of Global Financial Shocks on Emerging Market Economies

Gustavo Adler and Camilo Tovar