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2012/114: Bank Capitalization As a Signal

Daniel Hardy

2012/113: Fiscal Consolidation in Southeastern European Countries: The Role of Budget Institutions

Brian Olden, Duncan Last, Sami Yläoutinen and Carla Sateriale

2012/112: Commodity Price Shocks and Fiscal Outcomes

Issouf Samaké and Nikola Spatafora

2012/111: Natural Resources, Volatility, and Inclusive Growth: Perspectives From the Middle East and North Africa

Mustapha Nabli and Rabah Arezki

2012/110: Dynamic Loan Loss Provisioning: Simulationson Effectiveness and Guide to Implementation

Torsten Wezel, Jorge Chan-Lau and Francesco Columba

2012/109: The Future of Oil: Geology Versus Technology

Marcelle Chauvet, Jack Selody, Douglas Laxton, Michael Kumhof, Jaromir Benes, Ondrej Kamenik and Susanna Mursula

2012/108: Mobilizing Revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Norms and Key Determinants

Paulo Drummond, Wendell Daal, Nandini Srivastava and Luiz Oliveira

2012/107: Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs: An Application to Slovakia

International Monetary Fund

2012/106: Structural Reforms and Regional Convergence

Antonio Spilimbergo and Natasha Che

2012/105: Post-Laspeyres: The Case for a New Formula for Compiling Consumer Price Indexes

Paul Armknecht Jr. and Mick Silver

2012/104: Remittances Channel and Fiscal Impact in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia

Yasser Abdih, Ralph Chami, Christian Ebeke and Adolfo Barajas

2012/103: Bank Credit, Asset Prices and Financial Stability: Evidence From French Banks

Cyril Pouvelle

2012/102: Consequences of Asset Shortages in Emerging Markets

Patrick Imam and Jiaqian Chen

2012/101: Central Bank Independence and Macro-Prudential Regulation

Fabian Valencia and Kenichi Ueda

2012/100: An End to China’s Imbalances?

Ashvin Ahuja, Nigel Chalk, Nathan Porter, Papa N'Diaye and Malhar Nabar

2012/099: Unemployment and Labor Market Issues in Algeria

Davide Furceri

2012/098: Financial Regulation and the Current Account

Tomasz Wieladek and Sergi Lanau

2012/097: Asymmetric Effects of the Financial Crisis: Collateral-Based Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Analysis

Vadim Khramov

2012/096: Modeling with Limited Data: Estimating Potential Growth in Cambodia

Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul

2012/095: Money and Collateral

Manmohan Singh and Peter Stella

2012/094: Monetary Policy in Low Income Countries in the Face of the Global Crisis: The Case of Zambia

Jaromir Benes, Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, Mai Dao and Alfredo Baldini

2012/093: Fiscal Policies and Rules in the Face of Revenue Volatility within Southern Africa Customs Union Countries (SACU)

Olivier Basdevant

2012/092: Real Wage, Labor Productivity, and Employment Trends in South Africa: A Closer Look

Nir Klein

2012/091: Narrowing Vertical Fiscal Imbalances in Four European Countries

Izabela Karpowicz

2012/090: Revisiting Risk-Weighted Assets

Sofiya Avramova and Vanessa Le Lesle

2012/089: Commodity Prices and Inflation Expectations in the United States

Oya Celasun, Lev Ratnovski and Roxana Mihet

2012/088: Spillover Effects of Exchange Rates: A Study of the Renminbi

Arvind Subramanian, Prachi Mishra and Aaditya Mattoo

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