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2011/287: Inflation Dynamics in FYR Macedonia

Maral Shamloo

2011/286: Desynchronized: The Comovement of Non-Hydrocarbon Business Cycles in the GCC

Serhan Cevik

2011/285: Using Credit Subsidies to Counteract a Credit Bust: Evidence From Serbia

Jiri Podpiera

2011/284: Safeguarding Banks and Containing Property Booms: Cross-Country Evidenceon Macroprudential Policies and Lessons From Hong Kong SAR

Malhar Nabar and Ashvin Ahuja

2011/283: Commodity Price Cycles: The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom

Sebastian Sosa and Gustavo Adler

2011/282: Market Discipline and Conflicts of Interest Between Banks and Pension Funds

Adolfo Barajas and Mario Catalan

2011/281: Effectiveness of Capital Controls in Selected Emerging Markets in the 2000's

Chikako Baba and Annamaria Kokenyne

2011/280: How Costly Are Debt Crises?

Davide Furceri and Aleksandra Zdzienicka

2011/279: The Relative Volatility of Commodity Prices: A Reappraisal

Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman and Hongyan Zhao

2011/278: Credit Growth and Bank Soundness: Fast and Furious?

Deniz Igan and Marcelo Pinheiro

2011/277: Determinants of Property Prices in Hong Kong SAR: Implications for Policy

R. Craig and Changchun Hua

2011/276: What Can Low-Income Countries Expect From Adopting Inflation Targeting?

Alexandra Born, Sarwat Jahan and Edward Gemayel

2011/275: Monetary Policy Transmission in Ghana: Does the Interest Rate Channel Work?

Arto Kovanen

2011/274: Does Money Matter for Inflation in Ghana?

Arto Kovanen

2011/273: On the Stability of Money Demand in Ghana: A Bounds Testing Approach

Arto Kovanen and Jihad Dagher

2011/272: Evaluating Designs for a Fiscal Rule in Bulgaria

Jochen Andritzky

2011/271: Intangible Capital, Relative Asset Shortages and Bubbles

Stefano Giglio and Tiago Severo

2011/270: Assessing the Variability of Tax Elasticities in Lithuania

Tigran Poghosyan

2011/269: The Eurozone Crisis: How Banks and Sovereigns Came to Be Joined At the Hip

Damiano Sandri and Ashoka Mody

2011/268: Oil-Price Boom and Real Exchange Rate Appreciation: Is there Dutch Disease in the Cemac?

Juan Trevino

2011/267: Low-Income Countries' BRIC Linkage: Are there Growth Spillovers?

Issouf Samaké and Yongzheng Yang

2011/266: The Design of Fiscal Adjustment Strategies in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland

Luis-Felipe Zanna, Olivier Basdevant, Susan Yang, Genevieve Verdier, Joannes Mongardini, Borislava Mircheva and Dalmacio Benicio

2011/265: The Problem that Wasn't: Coordination Failures in Sovereign Debt Restructurings

Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Marcos Chamon and Ran Bi

2011/264: Bank of Japan'S Monetary Easing Measures: Are they Powerful and Comprehensive?

Waikei Lam

2011/263: Modeling Correlated Systemic Liquidity and Solvency Risks in a Financial Environment with Incomplete Information

Liliana Schumacher and Theodore Barnhill

2011/262: A Theory of Domestic and International Trade Finance

JaeBin Ahn

2011/261: The Economic Crisis: Did Financial Supervision Matter?

Marc Quintyn, Rosaria Vega Pansini and Donato Masciandaro

2011/260: The Puzzle of Persistently Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials: Financial Repression or Income Catch-Up?

Anna Shabunina, Julio Escolano and Jaejoon Woo

2011/259: Monetary Policy and Risk-Premium Shocks in Hungary: Results from a Large Bayesian VAR

Adina Popescu and Alina Carare

2011/258: Can Emerging Market Central Banks Bail Out Banks? A+L4848 Cautionary Tale From Latin America

Luis Jácome, Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Simon Townsend

2011/257: Inflation Dynamics in Asia: Causes, Changes, and Spillovers From China

Carolina Osorio-Buitron and Filiz Unsal

2011/256: Velocity of Pledged Collateral: Analysis and Implications

Manmohan Singh

2011/255: Determinants of Development Financing Flows From Brazil, Russia, India, and China to Low-Income Countries

Nkunde Mwase

2011/254: Do Commodity Futures Help Forecast Spot Prices?

David Reichsfeld and Shaun Roache

2011/253: Precautionary Savings in a Small Open Economy Revisited

Agustin Roitman

2011/252: Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Laurence Ball, Nicolás de Roux and Marc Hofstetter

2011/251: What Drives the Global Land Rush?

Harris Selod, Klaus Deininger and Rabah Arezki

2011/250: Towards Effective Macroprudential Policy Frameworks: An Assessment of Stylized Institutional Models

Erlend Nier, Luis Jácome, Jacek Osinski and Pamela Madrid

2011/249: Optimal Precautionary Reserves for Low-Income Countries: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Era Dabla-Norris, Jun Kim and Kazuko Shirono

2011/248: The Role of Structural Reforms in Raising Economic Growth in Central America

Andrew Swiston and Luis-Diego Barrot

2011/247: An Assessment of Estimates of Term Structure Models for the United States

Carlos Medeiros and Ying He

2011/246: Do Remittances Reduce Aid Dependency?

Maelan Le Goff and Kangni Kpodar

2011/245: Improving the Monetary Policy Frameworks in Central America

Stephanie Medina Cas, Alejandro Carrion-Menendez and Florencia Frantischek

2011/244: Monetary Policy, Bank Leverage, and Financial Stability

Fabian Valencia

2011/243: Financial Integration and Rebalancing in Asia

Olaf Unteroberdoerster and Runchana Pongsaparn

2011/242: Risk Sharing and Financial Contagion in Asia: An Asset Price Perspective

Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul

2011/241: Rapid Credit Growth: Boon or Boom-Bust?

Selim Elekdag and Yiqun Wu

2011/240: The Policy Interest-Rate Pass-Through in Central America

Stephanie Medina Cas, Alejandro Carrion-Menendez and Florencia Frantischek

2011/239: Global Rebalancing: Implications for Low-Income Countries

Yongzheng Yang

2011/238: Macroprudential Policy: What Instruments and How to Use them? Lessons From Country Experiences

International Monetary Fund

2011/237: Does G-4 Liquidity Spill Over?

L. Psalida and Tao Sun

2011/236: Making Banks Safer: Can Volcker and Vickers Do it?

Julian Chow and Jay Surti

2011/235: Predicting Recessions: A New Approach for Identifying Leading Indicators and Forecast Combinations

Turgut Kisinbay and Chikako Baba

2011/234: Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis

Camelia Minoiu and Shatakshee Dhongde

2011/233: Determinants of Non-oil Growth in the CFA-Zone Oil Producing Countries: How do they Differ?

Alexandra Tabova and Carol Baker

2011/232: Inflation Dynamics in the CEMAC Region

Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro, Darlena Tartari Schwegler and Carlos Caceres

2011/231: How Long Do Housing Cycles Last? a Duration Analysis for 19 OECD Countries

Philippe Bracke

2011/230: Limited Information Bayesian Model Averaging for Dynamic Panels with An Application to a Trade Gravity Model

Huigang Chen, Alin Mirestean and Charalambos Tsangarides

2011/229: Inflation Targeting and Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms in Emerging Market Economies

Sanchita Mukherjee and Rina Bhattacharya

2011/228: Incorporating Financial Sector Risk Into Monetary Policy Models: Application to Chile

Leonardo Luna, Dale Gray, Jorge Restrepo and Carlos García

2011/227: Did the Euro Crisis Affect Non-Financial Firm Stock Prices Through a Financial or Trade Channel?

Stijn Claessens, Hui Tong and Igor Zuccardi Huertas

2011/226: Decentralizing Spending More Than Revenue: Does it Hurt Fiscal Performance?

Luc Eyraud and Lusine Lusinyan

2011/225: Understanding Chinese Bond Yields and their Role in Monetary Policy

Nathan Porter and Nuno Cassola

2011/224: Incorporating Financial Stability in Inflation Targeting Frameworks

Burcu Aydin and Engin Volkan

2011/223: Targets, Interest Rates, and Household Saving in Urban China

Malhar Nabar

2011/222: Systemic Risks in Global Banking: What Available Data Can Tell Us and What More Data Are Needed?

Eugenio Cerutti, Patrick McGuire and Stijn Claessens

2011/221: Spatial Spillovers in Emerging Market Spreads

Salvatore Dell'Erba, Emanuele Baldacci and Tigran Poghosyan

2011/220: A Debt Intolerance Framework Applied to Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic

Geoffrey Bannister and Luis-Diego Barrot

2011/219: Bayesian Dynamic Factor Analysis of a Simple Monetary DSGE Model

Maxym Kryshko

2011/218: Growth Spillover Dynamics From Crisis to Recovery

Hélène Poirson and Sebastian Weber

2011/217: Efficiency-Adjusted Public Capital and Growth

Sanjeev Gupta, Alvar Kangur, Abdoul Wane and Chris Papageorgiou

2011/216: Data-Rich DSGE and Dynamic Factor Models

Maxym Kryshko

2011/215: What Fuels the Boom Drives the Bust: Regulation and the Mortgage Crisis

Jihad Dagher and Ning Fu

2011/214: Assessing Systemic Trade Interconnectedness: An Empirical Approach

Alexander Massara and Luca Errico

2011/213: Market Phoenixes and Banking Ducks Are Recoveries Faster in Market-Based Financial Systems?

Julien Allard and Rodolphe Blavy

2011/212: Apocalypse then: The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis

Trung Bui and Tamim Bayoumi

2011/211: Do Fiscal Spillovers Matter?

Sebastian Weber and Anna Ivanova

2011/210: Public Debt in Advanced Economies and its Spillover Effectson Long-Term Yields

C. Emre Alper and Lorenzo Forni

2011/209: Communication of Central Bank Thinking and Inflation Dynamics

Man-Keung Tang and Xiangrong Yu

2011/208: Global Economic Governance: IMF Quota Reform

Arvind Virmani

2011/207: External Sustainability of Oil-Producing Sub-Saharan African Countries

Robert York and Misa Takebe

2011/206: The Taxation and Regulation of Banks

Michael Keen

2011/205: The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policies in the CEMAC Region

Gaston Mpatswe, Sampawende Tapsoba and Robert York

2011/204: South Africa: The Cyclical Behavior of the Markups and its Implications for Monetary Policy

Nir Klein

2011/203: Public Debt Targeting An Application to the Caribbean

Alejandro Guerson and Giovanni Melina

2011/202: Burkina Faso: Policies to Protect the Poor From the Impact of Food and Energy Price Increases

Isabell Adenauer and Javier Arze del Granado

2011/201: Financial Linkages Across Korean Banks

Burcu Aydin, Myeongsuk Kim and Ho-Seong Moon

2011/200: Remittances in Pakistan: Why have they gone up, and why Aren't they coming down?

Yan Sun and Udo Kock

2011/199: Shocks, Financial Dependence, and Efficiency: Evidence From U.S. and Canadian Industries

Marcello Estevão and Tiago Severo

2011/198: De Jure Versus De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Slavi Slavov

2011/197: External Adjustment and the Global Crisis

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane

2011/196: Financial Deepening, Property Rights and Poverty: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Yifei Huang and Raju Singh

2011/195: Are Middle Eastern Current Account Imbalances Excessive?

Paul Cashin and Samya Beidas-Strom

2011/194: Oil Shocks in a Global Perspective: Are they Really That Bad?

Tobias Rasmussen and Agustin Roitman

2011/193: Systemic Risk and Optimal Regulatory Architecture

Marco Espinosa-Vega, Rafael Matta, Charles Kahn and Juan Sole

2011/192: Economic Policies and FDI Inflows to Emerging Market Economies

Elif Arbatli Saxegaard

2011/191: Home Sweet Home: Government's Role in Reaching the American Dream

Evridiki Tsounta

2011/190: Institutional Cash Pools and the Triffin Dilemma of the U.S. Banking System

Zoltan Pozsar

2011/189: Capital Flows and Financial Stability: Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Responses

Filiz Unsal

2011/188: Capital Regulation and Tail Risk

Enrico Perotti, Lev Ratnovski and Razvan Vlahu