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2011/187: Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II

International Monetary Fund

2011/186: The Bright and the Dark Side of Cross-Border Banking Linkages

Sònia Muñoz, Ryan Scuzzarella and Martin Cihak

2011/185: Taxing Financial Transactions: An Assessment of Administrative Feasibility

John Brondolo

2011/184: Customs Administration Reform and Modernization in anglophone Africa: Early 1990's to Mid-2010

Justin Zake

2011/183: Unforeseen Events Wait Lurking: Estimating Policy Spillovers From U.S. to Foreign Asset Prices

Tamim Bayoumi and Trung Bui

2011/182: The Relationship Between Illicit Coca Production and Formal Economic Activity in Peru

Peter Pedroni and Concha Verdugo Yepes

2011/181: Financing Infrastructure in India: Macroeconomic Lessons and Emerging Market Case Studies

James Walsh, Jiangyan Yu and Chanho Park

2011/180: Is there a Role for Funding in Explaining Recent U.S. Banks' Failures?

Pierluigi Bologna

2011/179: A Newton's Method for Benchmarking Time Series According to a Growth Rates Preservation Principle

Marco Marini and Tommaso Di Fonzo

2011/178: FDI from BRICs to LICs: Emerging Growth Driver?

Montfort Mlachila and Misa Takebe

2011/177: Compliance with the AM+L4776L/CFT International Standard: Lessons from a Cross-Country Analysis

Concha Verdugo Yepes

2011/176: Determinants of Interest Rate Pass-Through: Do Macroeconomic Conditions and Financial Market Structure Matter?

Nikoloz Gigineishvili

2011/175: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisison Microfinance and Policy Implications

C. Di Bella

2011/174: The Quest for Higher Growth in the WAEMU Region: The Role of Accelerations and Decelerations

Montfort Mlachila and Tidiane Kinda

2011/173: Democratic Accountability, Deficit Bias, and Independent Fiscal Agencies

Xavier Debrun

2011/172: Fiscal Policy Implementation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Victor Lledo and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro

2011/171: Is Fiscal Policy Procyclical in Developing Oil-Producing Countries?

Nese Erbil

2011/170: A Quantitative Assessment of Financial Conditions in Asia

Carolina Osorio-Buitron, Filiz Unsal and Runchana Pongsaparn

2011/169: Country Insurance Using Financial Instruments

Luca Ricci, Marcos Chamon and Yuanyan Zhang

2011/168: International Fuel Tax Assessment: An Application to Chile

Ian Parry and Jon Strand

2011/167: Iran: The Chronicles of the Subsidy Reform

Dominique Guillaume, Roman Zytek and Mohammad Reza Farzin

2011/166: A General Equilibrium Model of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles

Zhanwei Yue and Enrique Mendoza

2011/165: Foreign Exchange Intervention: A Shield Against Appreciation Winds?

Gustavo Adler and Camilo Tovar

2011/164: Modeling Optimal Fiscal Consolidation Paths in a Selection of European Countries

Daniel Kanda

2011/163: J-Curve of Productivity and Growth: Indian Manufacturing Post-Liberalization

Arvind Virmani and Danish Hashim

2011/162: Revenue Administration Reforms in anglophone Africa Since the Early 1990's

David Kloeden

2011/161: Nonperforming Loans and Macrofinancial Vulnerabilities in Advanced Economies

Mwanza Nkusu

2011/160: Inflation Inertia in Egypt and its Policy Implications

Kenji Moriyama

2011/159: Policy Instruments to Lean Against the Wind in Latin America

G. Terrier, Rodrigo Valdés, Camilo Tovar, Jorge Chan-Lau, Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos, Mercedes Garcia-Escribano, Carlos Medeiros, Man-Keung Tang, Mercedes Vera Martin and W. Christopher Walker

2011/158: Expansionary Austerity New International Evidence

Daniel Leigh, Andrea Pescatori and Jaime Guajardo

2011/157: The Dynamic Implications of Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries

Ales Bulir, Alma Romero-Barrutieta and Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado

2011/156: The Behavior of Conventional and Islamic Bank Deposit Returns in Malaysia and Turkey

Joshua Charap and Serhan Cevik

2011/155: The External Impact of China'S Exchange Rate Policy: Evidence From Firm Level Data

Barry Eichengreen and Hui Tong

2011/154: Labor Market Regulations in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A New Panel Database

Martin Schindler and Mariya Aleksynska

2011/153: Rainfall, Financial Development, and Remittances: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

2011/152: Towards a Best Practice of Modeling Unit of Measure and Related Statistical Metadata

Wilfried Grossmann and Michaela Denk

2011/151: Avoid Filling Swiss Cheese with Whipped Cream: Imputation Techniques and Evaluation Procedures for Cross-Country Time Series

Michael Weber and Michaela Denk

2011/150: The Role of Monetary Policy in Turkey During the Global Financial Crisis

Selim Elekdag and Harun Alp

2011/149: Post-Conflict Recovery: Institutions, Aid, or Luck?

Antonio David, Fabiano Rodrigues Bastos and Marshall Mills

2011/148: The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China

Mai Dao and Ruo Chen

2011/147: Policy Coordination in Fiscal Federalism: Drawing Lessons From the Dubai Debt Crisis

Serhan Cevik

2011/146: Recent Developments in European Bank Competition

Yu Sun

2011/145: Should Unconventional Balance Sheet Policies Be Added to the Central Bank toolkit? a Review of the Experience so Far

Kotaro Ishi, Kenji Fujita and Mark Stone

2011/144: International Reserve Adequacy in Central America

Kristin Magnusson Bernard

2011/143: Will Natural Gas Prices Decouple From Oil Prices Across the Pond?

Reinout De Bock and Jose Gijon

2011/142: Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth: The Role of Political Institutions

Kazim Kazimov, Kirk Hamilton and Rabah Arezki

2011/141: Exchange Rate Pass-Through Over the Business Cycle in Singapore

Siang Tan, Joey Chew and Sam Ouliaris

2011/140: Euro Area Export Performance and Competitiveness

Jarkko Turunen, Richard Harmsen and Tamim Bayoumi

2011/139: Protectionist Responses to the Crisis: Damage Observed in Product-Level Trade

Brad McDonald and Christian Henn

2011/138: Global and Regional Spillovers to GCC Equity Markets

Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Oral Williams

2011/137: Asean Bond Market Development: Where Does it Stand? Where is it Going?

Mahmood Pradhan, Shanaka Peiris, Mangal Goswami, Dulani Seneviratne, Joshua Felman, Andreas Jobst and Simon Gray

2011/136: Global Liquidity: Availability of Funds for Safe and Risky Assets

Akito Matsumoto

2011/135: Developing Asean5 Bond Markets: What Still Needs to Be Done?

Simon Gray, Andreas Jobst, Joshua Felman and Ana Carvajal

2011/134: Sovereign Spreads and Contagion Risks in Asia

Filiz Unsal and Carlos Caceres

2011/133: Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: The Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions

International Monetary Fund

2011/132: The Development of Local Debt Markets in Asia

Mangal Goswami and Sunil Sharma

2011/131: The Distributive Effects of Land Titleon Labor Supply: Evidence From Brazil

Mauricio Moura, Caio Piza and Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro

2011/130: Risky Bank Lending and Optimal Capital Adequacy Regulation

Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof

2011/129: Official Dollarization As a Monetary Regime: Its Effectson El Salvador

Andrew Swiston

2011/128: A New Action-Based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation

Andrea Pescatori, Daniel Leigh, Jaime Guajardo and Pete Devries

2011/127: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Yearbook: Maps of Government for 74 Countries

International Monetary Fund

2011/126: Measuring Fiscal Decentralization: Exploring the IMF’s Databases

International Monetary Fund

2011/125: Information Rigidity in Growth Forecasts: Some Cross-Country Evidence

Natalia Tamirisa, Prakash Loungani and Herman Stekler

2011/124: Reforming the Tax System to Promote Environmental Objectives: An Application to Mauritius

Ian Parry

2011/123: Sectoral Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and External Vulnerability in Eastern Europe

Yuko Kinoshita

2011/122: Precautionary Savings and Global Imbalances in World General Equilibrium

Damiano Sandri

2011/121: Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession

Sandeep Mazumder and Laurence Ball

2011/120: From West to East: Estimating External Spillovers to Australia and New Zealand

Yan Sun

2011/119: Bank Behavior in Response to Basel Iii: A Cross-Country Analysis

Thomas Cosimano and Dalia Hakura

2011/118: Credit Market Imperfection and Sectoral Asymmetry of Chinese Business Cycle

Yuanyan Zhang

2011/117: Search Frictions and the Labor Wedge

Murat Tasci and Andrea Pescatori

2011/116: In Which Exchange Rate Models Do Forecasters Trust?

Jaewoo Lee, H. Takizawa and David Hauner

2011/115: Impact of the Global Crisison Banking Sector Soundness in Asian Low-Income Countries

International Monetary Fund

2011/114: Causes of Asset Shortages in Emerging Markets

Jiaqian Chen and Patrick Imam

2011/113: On Brazil’s Term Structure: Stylized Facts and Analysis of Macroeconomic Interactions

Rodrigo Cabral, Richard Munclinger, Luiz Alves and Marco Rodriguez Waldo

2011/112: Words vs. Deeds: What Really Matters?

Mahvash Qureshi, Atish Ghosh and Charalambos Tsangarides

2011/111: Identifying Vulnerabilities in Systemically-Important Financial Institutions in a Macro-Financial Linkages Framework

Tao Sun

2011/110: New Shocks and Asset Price Volatility in General Equilibrium

Alessandro Rebucci, Akito Matsumoto, Pietro Cova and Massimiliano Pisani

2011/109: Real Unit Labor Costs Differentials in EMU+L4700: How Big, How Benign and How Reversible?

Igor Lebrun and Esther Perez Ruiz

2011/108: Estimating a Small Open-Economy Model for Egypt: Spillovers, Inflation Dynamics, and Implications for Monetary Policy

Elif Arbatli Saxegaard and Kenji Moriyama

2011/107: Identifying Fiscal Policy Transmission in Stochastic Debt Forecasts

Kei Kawakami and Rafael Romeu

2011/106: New Evidenceon Cyclical and Structural Sources of Unemployment

Jinzhu Chen, Bharat Trehan, Prakash Kannan and Prakash Loungani

2011/105: Has the Great Recession Raised U.S. Structural Unemployment?

Marcello Estevão and Evridiki Tsounta

2011/104: Ghana: Will it Be Gifted or Will it Be Cursed?

Burcu Aydin

2011/103: Macroeconomic Costs of Higher Bank Capital and Liquidity Requirements

Scott Roger and Jan Vlcek

2011/102: Oil Spill(over)s: Linkages in Petroleum Product Pricing Policies in West African Countries

Mohamed El Harrak, Antonio David, Lorraine Ocampos and Marshall Mills

2011/101: Development of Financial Markets in Central Europe: the Case of the CE4 Countries

Amat Adarov and Robert Tchaidze

2011/100: Assessing Fiscal Stress

Gabriela Dobrescu, Iva Petrova, Nazim Belhocine and Emanuele Baldacci

2011/099: Did Export Diversification Soften the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis?

Rafael Romeu and Nelson Costa Neto

2011/098: Real-time Forecasts of Economic Activity for Latin American Economies

Philip Liu, Rafael Romeu and Troy Matheson

2011/097: Lessons for Monetary Policy: What Should the Consensus Be?

Otmar Issing

2011/096: Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms in Pacific Island Countries

Jonathan Dunn, Matt Davies, Yongzheng Yang, Yiqun Wu and Shengzu Wang

2011/095: The Tax Elasticity of Corporate Debt: A Synthesis of Size and Variations

Ruud de Mooij

2011/094: Measuring Fiscal Vulnerability and Fiscal Stress: A Proposed Set of Indicators

James McHugh, Iva Petrova and Emanuele Baldacci

2011/093: Financial Conditions Indexes for the United States and Euro Area

Troy Matheson

2011/092: International Mutual Funds, Capital Flow Volatility, and Contagion – A Survey

R. Gaston Gelos

2011/091: How to Deal with Real Estate Booms: Lessons from Country Experiences

Pau Rabanal, Christopher Crowe, Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Deniz Igan

2011/090: Growth from International Capital Flows: The Role of Volatility Regimes

Antu Murshid and Ashoka Mody

2011/089: France: Lessons from Past Fiscal Consolidation Plans

Edouard Martin, Irina Yakadina and Irina Tytell

2011/088: How Do Business and Financial Cycles Interact?

Marco Terrones, Ayhan Kose and Stijn Claessens