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2012/087: Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes: Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework

Marc Quintyn and Sophia Gollwitzer

2012/086: Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia

International Monetary Fund

2012/085: Fiscal Devaluation and Fiscal Consolidation: The VAT in Troubled Times

Michael Keen and Ruud de Mooij

2012/084: Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility: Evidence From Brazil

Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Marcello Estevão

2012/083: Assessing Dsge Models with Capital Accumulation and Indeterminacy

Vadim Khramov

2012/082: Fiscal Policy Response to External Crises the Case of Moldova 1998-2010

Driton Qehaja

2012/081: Trade and Financial Spilloveron Hong Kong SAR from a Downturn in Europe and Mainland China

Papa N'Diaye and Ashvin Ahuja

2012/080: Determinants of Corporate Investment in China: Evidence From Cross-Country Firm Level Data

Nan Geng and Papa N'Diaye

2012/079: The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change

Julian di Giovanni, Jing Zhang and Andrei Levchenko

2012/078: Macrofinance Model of the Czech Economy: Asset Allocation Perspective

International Monetary Fund

2012/077: CDS Spreads in European Periphery: Some Technical Issues to Consider

Manmohan Singh and Mohsan Bilal

2012/076: Strengthening Russia's Fiscal Framework

Daria Zakharova and Charleen Gust

2012/075: De-Monopolization toward Long-Term Prosperity in China

Ashvin Ahuja

2012/074: BRICs’ Philosophies for Development Financing and their Implications for LICs

Yongzheng Yang and Nkunde Mwase

2012/073: Exchange Rate Volatility Under Peg: Do Trade Patterns Matter?

Constant Lonkeng Ngouana

2012/072: Capital Regulation, Liquidity Requirements and Taxation in a Dynamic Model of Banking

Gianni De Nicolo, Andrea Gamba and Marcella Lucchetta

2012/071: Bank Asset Quality in Emerging Markets: Determinants and Spillovers

Reinout De Bock and Alexander Demyanets

2012/070: Does the Business Environment Affect Corporate Investment in India?

Kiichi Tokuoka

2012/069: How Do Exchange Rate Regimes Affect Firms' Incentives to Hedge Currency Risk? Micro Evidence for Latin America

Herman Kamil

2012/068: Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations

Damiano Sandri and Fabian Valencia

2012/067: Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?

International Monetary Fund

2012/066: Exchange-Rate Dark Matter

Martin Evans

2012/065: Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment

Davide Furceri, Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo and Dominique Guillaume

2012/064: Labor Market Flexibility and Unemployment: New Empirical Evidence of Static and Dynamic Effects

Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo, Davide Furceri and Dominique Guillaume

2012/063: Operative Principles of Islamic Derivatives: Towards a Coherent Theory

Juan Sole and Andreas Jobst

2012/062: The Puzzle of Brazil's High Interest Rates

Alex Segura-Ubiergo

2012/061: Current Account Imbalances: Can Structural Policies Make a Difference?

Anna Ivanova

2012/060: Does Central Bank Capital Matter for Monetary Policy?

Camilo Tovar, Pedro Castro and Gustavo Adler

2012/059: Structural Transformation and the sophistication of Production

Nikola Spatafora, Rahul Anand and Saurabh Mishra

2012/058: Systemic Real and Financial Risks: Measurement, Forecasting, and Stress Testing

Marcella Lucchetta and Gianni De Nicolo

2012/057: An Integrated Framework for Financial Positions and Flowson a From-Whom-To-Whom Basis: Concepts, Status, and Prospects

Segismundo Fassler, Manik Shrestha and Reimund Mink

2012/056: India's Growth Spillovers to South Asia

Iyabo Masha and Ding Ding

2012/055: Coincident Indicators of Capital Flows

Malika Pant and Yanliang Miao

2012/054: Can Institutional Reform Reduce Job Destruction and Unemployment Duration? Yes it Can

Esther Perez Ruiz and Yao Yao

2012/053: From Stress to Costress: Stress Testing Interconnected Banking Systems

Rodolfo Maino and Kalin Tintchev

2012/052: Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate

Santanu Chatterjee and Azer Mursagulov

2012/051: Fiscal Policy and the Current Account: Are Microstates Different?

Yehenew Endegnanew, Therese Turner-Jones and Charles Amo Yartey

2012/050: The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification: Evidence From U.S. Banks

Luc Laeven, Martin Goetz and Ross Levine

2012/049: Spillovers to Low-Income Countries: Importance of Systemic Emerging Markets

Era Dabla-Norris, Raphael Espinoza and Sarwat Jahan

2012/048: Debt, Taxes, and Banks

Michael Keen and Ruud de Mooij

2012/047: Inclusive Growth, Institutions, and the Underground Economy

Adil Mohommad, Anoop Singh and Sonali Jain-Chandra

2012/046: Short-Term Wholesale Funding and Systemic Risk: A Global Covar Approach

International Monetary Fund

2012/045: Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries

Luc Eyraud, Anita Tuladhar, Julio Escolano, Marialuz Moreno Badia and Juliane Sarnes

2012/044: The Global Macroeconomic Costs of Raising Bank Capital Adequacy Requirements

Francis Vitek and Scott Roger

2012/043: What Drives Credit Growth in Emerging Asia?

Fei Han and Selim Elekdag

2012/042: Precautionary Savings in the Great Recession

Ashoka Mody, Damiano Sandri and Franziska Ohnsorge

2012/041: Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and Credit Booms

Nicolas Magud, Esteban Vesperoni and Carmen Reinhart

2012/040: Treasury Bills and/Or Central Bank Bills for Absorbing Surplus Liquidity: The Main Considerations

Obert Nyawata

2012/039: Stock-Flow Adjustments and Fiscal Transparency: A Cross-Country Comparison

Anke Weber

2012/038: Macroeconomic and Welfare Costs of U.S. Fiscal Imbalances

Bertrand Gruss and José Torres

2012/037: Determinants of Inflation in the Euro Area: The Role of Labor and Product Market Institutions

Hanan Morsy and Florence Jaumotte

2012/036: How Risky Are Banks' Risk Weighted Assets? Evidence From the Financial Crisis

Sonali Das and Amadou Sy

2012/035: An Assessment of Malaysian Monetary Policy During the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09

Selim Elekdag, Subir Lall and Harun Alp

2012/034: Shifting Motives: Explaining the Buildup in official Reserves in Emerging Markets Since the 1980's

Atish Ghosh, Jonathan Ostry and Charalambos Tsangarides

2012/033: Sovereign Risk, Fiscal Policy, and Macroeconomic Stability

Keith Kuester, Gernot Mueller, Giancarlo Corsetti and Andre Meier

2012/032: Assessing Bank Competition within the East African Community

Sarah Sanya and Matthew Gaertner

2012/031: Barbados: Sectoral Balance Sheet Mismatches and Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities

Charles Amo Yartey

2012/030: Fiscal Rules and the Sovereign Default Premium

Juan Hatchondo, Francisco Roch and Leonardo Martinez

2012/029: Bank Funding Structures and Risk: Evidence From the Global Financial Crisis

Pablo Federico and Francisco Vazquez

2012/028: A Partial Race to the Bottom: Corporate Tax Developments in Emerging and Developing Economies

Junhyung Park, Sukhmani Bedi, S. M. Ali Abbas and Alexander Klemm

2012/027: Managing Non-Core Liabilities and Leverage of the Banking System: A Building Block for Macroprudential Policy Making in Korea

Ali Alichi, Cheol Hong and Sang Chul Ryoo

2012/026: Mortgage Defaults

Leonardo Martinez, Juan Hatchondo and Juan Sanchez

2012/025: Bank Capital Adequacy in Australia

Niamh Sheridan and B. Jang

2012/024: Pricing of Sovereign Credit Risk: Evidence From Advanced Economies During the Financial Crisis

C. Emre Alper, Lorenzo Forni and Marc Gerard

2012/023: Are Rating Agencies Powerful? An Investigation Into the Impact and Accuracy of Sovereign Ratings

John Kiff, Sylwia Nowak and Liliana Schumacher

2012/022: Surges

Mahvash Qureshi, Atish Ghosh, Juan Zalduendo and Jun Kim

2012/021: Macrofinancial Modeling At Central Banks: Recent Developments and Future Directions

Jan Vlcek and Scott Roger

2012/020: Prudential Liquidity Regulation in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Rwanda

Sarah Sanya, A. E. Wayne Mitchell and Angelique Kantengwa

2012/019: Measuring Oil-Price Shocks Using Market-Based Information

Tao Wu and Michele Cavallo

2012/018: Capital Market Integration: Progress Ahead of the East African Community Monetary Union

Masafumi Yabara

2012/017: The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Would a Fiscal Insurance Mechanism Mitigate National Income Shocks?

Paul Cashin and Antonio Lemus

2012/016: Central Bank Credit to the Government: What Can We Learn From International Practices?

Marcela Matamoros-Indorf, Mrinalini Sharma, Simon Townsend and Luis Jácome

2012/015: Price Subsidies and the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Nooman Rebei and Mohamed Ben Aissa

2012/014: Central Banks Quasi-Fiscal Policies and Inflation

Seok Park

2012/013: Can International Macroeconomic Models Explain Low-Frequency Movements of Real Exchange Rates?

Pau Rabanal and Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

2012/012: Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth

International Monetary Fund

2012/011: A toolkit for Assessing Fiscal Vulnerabilities and Risks in Advanced Economies

Elif Arbatli Saxegaard, C. Emre Alper, Jiri Jonas, Anke Weber, Marc Gerard, Tidiane Kinda, Giovanni Callegari, Anna Shabunina, Andrea Schaechter and Carlos Caceres

2012/010: Foreign Banks: Trends, Impact and Financial Stability

Neeltje Van Horen and Stijn Claessens

2012/009: Clarity of Central Bank Communication About Inflation

Ales Bulir, David-Jan Jansen and Martin Cihak

2012/008: Income Inequality and Current Account Imbalances

Romain Ranciere, Nathaniel Throckmorton, Michael Kumhof, Claire Lebarz and Alexander Richter

2012/007: International Reserves in Low Income Countries: Have they Served As Buffers?

International Monetary Fund

2012/006: Money As Indicator for the Natural Rate of Interest

Helge Berger and Henning Weber

2012/005: Did Korean Monetary Policy Help Soften the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009?

Subir Lall, Selim Elekdag and Harun Alp

2012/004: Oil Exporters' Dilemma: How Much to Save and How Much to Invest

Reda Cherif and Fuad Hasanov

2012/003: Next Generation System-Wide Liquidity Stress Testing

Claus Puhr, Andre Santos, Christian Schmieder, Salih Neftci, Benjamin Neudorfer, Stefan Schmitz and Heiko Hesse

2012/002: Bank of Japan's Quantitative and Credit Easing: Are they Now More Effective

Ugo Fasano-Filho, Qing Wang and Pelin Berkmen

2012/001: Financial Stability Reports: What Are they Good for?

Sònia Muñoz, Samir Jahjah, Martin Cihak, Sharika Sharifuddin and Kalin Tintchev

2011/300: The Impact of the Global Crisison South-Eastern Europe

Francesco Spadafora, Emidio Cocozza and Andrea Colabella

2011/299: Developments in Financial Supervision and the Use of Macroprudential Measures in Central America

Mynor Meza and Fernando Delgado

2011/298: The New Economics of Capital Controls Imposed for Prudential Reasons+L4888

Anton Korinek

2011/297: Do Loan-To-Value and Debt-To-Income Limits Work? Evidence From Korea

Deniz Igan and Heedon Kang

2011/296: Who's Going Green and Why? Trends and Determinants of Green Investment

Luc Eyraud, Changchang Zhang, Abdoul Wane and Benedict Clements

2011/295: Bank Competition and Financial Stability: A General Equilibrium Exposition

Marcella Lucchetta and Gianni De Nicolo

2011/294: Inflation Differentials in the GCC: Does the Oil Cycle Matter?

Oral Williams and Kamiar Mohaddes

2011/293: Employment Protection and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies

Ruy Lama and Carlos Urrutia

2011/292: Assessing the Risks to the Japanese Government Bond (JGB) Market

Waikei Lam and Kiichi Tokuoka

2011/291: Oil Prices, External Income, and Growth: Lessons From Jordan

Mehdi Raissi and Kamiar Mohaddes

2011/290: Are there Spillover Effects From Munis?

Bertrand Candelon, Rabah Arezki and Amadou Sy

2011/289: The Nonbank-Bank Nexus and the Shadow Banking System

Manmohan Singh and Zoltan Pozsar

2011/288: The Determinants of Economic Growth in the Philippines: A New Look

Willa Boots J. Tolo