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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

2011/087: The Monetary Transmission in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies: The Cases of Chile, New Zealand, Peru and Uruguay

Santiago Acosta Ormaechea and David Coble

2011/086: Identifying the Linkages between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China’s Economic Growth—Implications for Latin America

Yongzhen Yu

2011/085: Corporate and Household Debt Distress in Latvia: Strengthening the Incentives for Market-Based Approach to Debt Resolution

Magnus Saxegaard, Michaela Erbenova and Yan Liu

2011/084: The Dynamics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates in the United States in Light of the Financial Crisis of 2007–10

Marco Rodriguez Waldo and Carlos Medeiros

2011/083: Next Generation Balance Sheet Stress Testing

Christian Schmieder, Maher Hasan and Claus Puhr

2011/082: Fat-Tails and their (Un)Happy Endings: Correlation Bias and its Implications for Systemic Risk and Prudential Regulation

International Monetary Fund

2011/081: Towards Inflation Targeting in Sri Lanka

Ding Ding, Rahul Anand and Shanaka Peiris

2011/080: Feeling The Elephant’s Weight: The Impact of Côte d’Ivoire’s Crisis on WAEMU Trade

Philippe Egoume Bossogo and Ankouvi Nayo

2011/079: Mongolia: Measuring the Output Gap

Julia Bersch and Tara Sinclair

2011/078: Deposit Formation in Georgia

Robert Tchaidze and Salome Tvalodze

2011/077: Evidence on Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Networks in the Export Performance of Firms

Luca Ricci and Federico Trionfetti

2011/076: Financial Cycles: What? How? When?

Marco Terrones, Ayhan Kose and Stijn Claessens

2011/075: Probabilities of Default and the Market Price of Risk in a Distressed Economy

Miguel Segoviano and Raphael Espinoza

2011/074: A network analysis of global banking: 1978–2009

Javier Reyes and Camelia Minoiu

2011/073: ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth: Evidence from African Countries

Kangni Kpodar and Mihasonirina Andrianaivo

2011/072: An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: Who Will Pay and How?

Nicoletta Batini, Julia Guerreiro and Giovanni Callegari

2011/071: Reconsidering the Role of Food Prices in Inflation

James Walsh

2011/070: Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk

Leonardo Martinez, Juan Hatchondo and Cesar Sosa Padilla

2011/069: Fiscal sustainability and the fiscal reaction function for South Africa

Charl Jooste, Alfredo Cuevas, Ian Stuart and Philippe Burger

2011/068: Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers: Evidence from the European Debt Crisis

Bertrand Candelon, Amadou Sy and Rabah Arezki

2011/067: Capital Flows to EU New Member States: Does Sector Destination Matter?

Pritha Mitra

2011/066: Making OTC Derivatives Safe—A Fresh Look

Manmohan Singh

2011/065: Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the Czech Republic

Stephen Snudden and Vladimir Klyuev

2011/064: Reviving the Competitive Storage Model: A Holistic Approach to Food Commodity Prices

Norbert Funke, Weifeng Wu and Yanliang Miao

2011/063: Leadership Contestability, Monopolistic Rents and Growth

Roberto Piazza

2011/062: Food Prices and Political Instability

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

2011/061: How Strong are Fiscal Multipliers in the GCC?

Raphael Espinoza and Abdelhak Senhadji

2011/060: Imperfect Information and Saving in a Small Open Economy

Agustin Roitman and Christian Daude

2011/059: Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Variability in WAEMU Countries

Kerstin Gerling and Carlos Fernandez Valdovinos

2011/058: Creditless Recoveries

Abdul Abiad, Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Grace Li

2011/057: Modeling Inflation in Chad

Tidiane Kinda

2011/056: Fiscal Rules in a Volatile World: A Welfare-Based Approach

Jorge Restrepo, Carlos García and Evan Tanner

2011/055: The Impact of Legislation on Credit Risk—Comparative Evidence From the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany

Philipp Schmieder and Christian Schmieder

2011/054: Taxing Financial Transactions: Issues and Evidence

Thornton Matheson

2011/053: Evaluating GDP Forecasting Models for Korea

Li Zeng

2011/052: How Big (Small?) are Fiscal Multipliers?

Ethan Ilzetzki, Enrique Mendoza and Carlos Végh Gramont

2011/051: Determinants of Bank Credit in Emerging Market Economies

Vahram Stepanyan and Kai Guo

2011/050: Bank Ownership and the Effects of Financial Liberalization: Evidence from India

Poonam Gupta, Kalpana Kochhar and Sanjaya Panth

2011/049: Dollarization in Cambodia: Causes and Policy Implications

Nombulelo Braiton

2011/048: Fiscal Expectations Under the Stability and Growth Pact: Evidence from Survey Data

Marcos Poplawski Ribeiro and Jan-Christoph Rülke

2011/047: Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World

Yishay Yafeh and Stijn Claessens