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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

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