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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

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