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2010/284: Transforming China: Insights from the Japanese Experience of the 1980s

Papa N'Diaye

2010/283: The Cost of Private Debt Over the Credit Cycle

Eugen Tereanu, Johanna Francis and Dilek Aykut

2010/282: Into the Great Unknown: Stress Testing with Weak Data

Li Ong, Rodolfo Maino and Nombulelo Braiton

2010/281: Determinants of Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: Fundamentals vs Financial Stress

Iva Petrova, Michael Papaioannou and Dimitri Bellas

2010/280: Managing Public Debt and Its Financial Stability Implications

Udaibir Das, Jay Surti, Faisal Ahmed, Michael Papaioannou and Guilherme Pedras

2010/279: A Noteon Terms of Trade Shocks and the Wage Gap

International Monetary Fund

2010/278: U.S. Monetary Shocks and Global Stock Prices

Luc Laeven and Hui Tong

2010/277: Can Covered Bonds Resuscitate Residential Mortgage Finance in the United States?

Jay Surti

2010/276: Monetary Policy, Leverage, and Bank Risk Taking

Giovanni Dell'ariccia, Robert Marquez and Luc Laeven

2010/275: The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle: A Firm-level Cross-country Perspective

Hui Tong, Shang-Jin Wei and Tamim Bayoumi

2010/274: Are House Prices Rising Too Fast in China?

Ashvin Ahuja, Lillian Cheung, Gaofeng Han, Nathan Porter and Wenlang Zhang

2010/273: Are House Prices Rising too Fast in Hong Kong SAR?

International Monetary Fund

2010/272: A Status Update on Fiscal Exit Strategies

International Monetary Fund

2010/271: When and Why Worry About Real Exchange Rate Appreciation? The Missing Link Between Dutch Disease and Growth

International Monetary Fund

2010/270: The Transmission Mechanism in Armenia: New Evidence from a Regime Switching VAR Analysis

International Monetary Fund

2010/269: Export Tax and Pricing Power: Two Hypotheses on the Cocoa Market in Côte d’Ivoire

Alexei Kireyev

2010/268: Inequality, Leverage and Crises

Romain Ranciere and Michael Kumhof

2010/267: Growth and Crisis, Unavoidable Connection?

Roberto Piazza

2010/266: Financial Innovation and Risk, the Role of Information

Roberto Piazza

2010/265: What Caused the Global Financial Crisis: Evidenceon the Drivers of Financial Imbalances 1999: 2007

Ouarda Merrouche and Erlend Nier

2010/264: Private Sector Consumption and Government Consumption and Debt in Advanced Economies: An Empirical Study

Sanchita Mukherjee and Rina Bhattacharya

2010/263: A New Index of Currency Mismatch and Systemic Risk

Romain Ranciere, Aaron Tornell and Athanasios Vamvakidis

2010/262: Emerging Asia’s Impact on Australian Growth: Some Insights From GEM

Benjamin Hunt

2010/261: Do Credit Shocks Matter? A Global Perspective

Thomas Helbling, Ayhan Kose, Christopher Otrok and Raju Huidrom

2010/260: Government Involvement in Corporate Debt Restructuring: Case Studies from the Great Recession

David Grigorian and Faezeh Raei

2010/259: Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run: the Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

Paolo Surico, Luca Ricci and Pierpaolo Benigno

2010/258: On the Estimation of Term Structure Models and An Application to the United States

International Monetary Fund

2010/257: Bilateral Financial Linkages and Global Imbalances: a View on The Eve of the Financial Crisis

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Natalia Tamirisa and Francesco Strobbe

2010/256: Slowdown of Credit Flows in Jordan in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis: Supply or Demand Driven?

Tigran Poghosyan

2010/255: Determinants of the Foreign Exchange Risk Premium in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Tigran Poghosyan

2010/254: Should Advanced Countries Adopt a Fiscal Responsibility Law?

Ian Lienert

2010/253: IMF Applications of Purchasing Power Parity Estimates

Mick Silver

2010/252: Post-Crisis Fiscal Policy Priorities for the ASEAN-5

International Monetary Fund

2010/251: Riding the Roller Coaster: Fiscal Policies of Nonrenewable Resource Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pablo Lopez Murphy, Mauricio Villafuerte and Rolando Ossowski

2010/250: Assessing the Risk of Private Sector Debt Overhang in the Baltic Countries

Valerie Herzberg

2010/249: Asset Prices in Affine Real Business Cycle Models

Maral Shamloo and Aytek Malkhozov

2010/248: Structural Breaks in Fiscal Performance: Did Fiscal Responsibility Laws Have Anything to Do with Them?

Leandro Medina, Carlos Caceres and Ana Corbacho

2010/247: Bankers Without Borders? Implications of Ring-Fencing for European Cross-Border Banks

Yuliya Makarova, Anna Ilyina, Christian Schmieder and Eugenio Cerutti

2010/246: Forecasting U.S. Investment

Pau Rabanal and Jaewoo Lee

2010/245: A Historical Public Debt Database

International Monetary Fund

2010/244: After the Crisis: Assessing the Damage in Italy

Silvia Sgherri and Hanan Morsy

2010/243: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions in the Post-war U.S

Susan Yang and Nora Traum

2010/242: Crisis and Recovery: Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging Market Countries

Charalambos Tsangarides

2010/241: On the Distributive Effects of Terms of Trade Shocks: The Role of Non-tradable Goods

International Monetary Fund

2010/240: Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Shocks, and Development Aid: New Evidence

Era Dabla-Norris, Camelia Minoiu and Luis-Felipe Zanna

2010/239: Deconstructing the International Business Cycle: Why does a U.S. sneeze give the rest of the world a cold?

International Monetary Fund

2010/238: Spillovers From Europe Into Morocco and Tunisia

Daniel Florea, Joël Toujas-Bernate and Reinout De Bock

2010/237: The Impact of the Great Recession on Emerging Markets

Ferhan Salman, Mali Chivakul and Ricardo Llaudes

2010/236: Financial Contagion Through Bank Deleveraging: Stylized Facts and Simulations Applied to the Financial Crisis

Thierry Tressel

2010/235: International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters

Luca Ricci, Thierry Tressel and Dennis Reinhardt

2010/234: Is Social Spending Procyclical?

Sanjeev Gupta, Alejandro Hajdenberg and Javier Arze del Granado

2010/233: Bank Lending in Turkey: Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policies

Burcu Aydin and Deniz Igan

2010/232: Restoring Debt Sustainability After Crises: Implications for the Fiscal Mix

Emanuele Baldacci, Sanjeev Gupta and Carlos Mulas-Granados

2010/231: Financial Frictions, Investment, and Institutions

Yishay Yafeh, Kenichi Ueda and Stijn Claessens

2010/230: Monetary Policy Matters: New Evidence Basedon a New Shock Measure

Christopher Crowe and S. Mahdi Barakchian

2010/229: Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus

Susan Yang, Todd Walker and Eric Leeper

2010/228: Australian Banking System Resilience: What Should Be Expected Looking Forward? An International Perspective

Pierluigi Bologna

2010/227: A Perspectiveon Predicting Currency Crises

Robert Flood, Juan Yepez and Nancy Marion

2010/226: The Euro’s Effecton Trade Imbalances

Helge Berger and Volker Nitsch

2010/225: What Can International Cricket Teach Us About the Role of Luck in Labor Markets?

Shekhar Aiyar and Rodney Ramcharan

2010/224: Nonperforming Loans in the GCC Banking System and their Macroeconomic Effects

Raphael Espinoza and Ananthakrishnan Prasad

2010/223: Monetary Transmission in Low Income Countries

Peter Montiel, Antonio Spilimbergo and Prachi Mishra

2010/222: How Commodity Price Curves and Inventories React to a Short-Run Scarcity Shock

Nese Erbil and Shaun Roache

2010/221: Price Dynamics in China

International Monetary Fund

2010/220: Macroprudential Regulation Under Repo Funding

Laura Valderrama

2010/219: Recent Credit Stagnation in the Mena Region: What to Expect? What Can Be Done?

Ralph Chami, Raphael Espinoza, Adolfo Barajas and Heiko Hesse

2010/218: Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization Evidenceon Poverty From India

Petia Topalova

2010/217: Performance of Fiscal Accounts in South Africa in a Cross-Country Setting

Burcu Aydin

2010/216: Cyclicality of Revenue and Structural Balances in South Africa

Burcu Aydin

2010/215: International Reserve Adequacy in the Gambia

Eugen Tereanu

2010/214: Monetary Transmission of Global Imbalances in Asian Countries

Il Lee and Woon Gyu Choi

2010/213: Adjustment Under a Currency Peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania During the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09

Catriona Purfield and Christoph Rosenberg

2010/212: Cyclical Behavior of Inventories and Growth Projections Recent Evidence From Europe and the United States

Alexander Hoffmaister and Jens Clausen

2010/211: Protection for Free? the Political Economy of U.S. Tariff suspensions

Prachi Mishra, Rodney Ludema and Anna Maria Mayda

2010/210: Mother, Can I Trust the Government? Sustained Financial Deepening: A Political Institutionsview

Marc Quintyn and Genevieve Verdier

2010/209: Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidenceon the Voracity Effect

Markus Brückner and Rabah Arezki

2010/208: Bank Capital and Uncertainty

Fabian Valencia

2010/207: Investment: Specific Technology Shocks and International Business Cycles: An Empirical Assessment

International Monetary Fund

2010/206: Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?

Ana Fostel and John Geanakoplos

2010/205: The End of An Era? the Medium- and Long-Term Effects of the Global Crisison Growth in Low-Income Countries

Chris Papageorgiou, Andrew Berg, Catherine Pattillo and Nikola Spatafora

2010/204: Information Content of DQAF Indicators: Empirical Entropy Analysis

Mico Mrkaic

2010/203: Data Dissemination Standards and the Statistical Quality of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook Forecasts

Mico Mrkaic

2010/202: The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies: A Review of Evidence for Developing Countries

David Coady and Javier Arze del Granado

2010/201: The Effects of the Global Crisison Islamic and Conventional Banks: A Comparative Study

Jemma Dridi and Maher Hasan

2010/200: Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets

Rahul Anand and Eswar Prasad

2010/199: To Starve or Not to Starve the Beast?

Michael Kumhof, Daniel Leigh and Douglas Laxton

2010/198: Sustainable Real Exchange Rates in the New Eu Member States: What Did the Great Recession Change?

Katerina Smidkova, Jan Babecký and Ales Bulir

2010/197: Estimates of the Output Gap in Armenia with Applications to Monetary and Fiscal Policy

International Monetary Fund

2010/196: Can Global Liquidity Forecast Asset Prices?

Reginald Darius

2010/195: Islamic Banking: How Has it Diffused?

Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar

2010/194: Measuring Financial Barriers Among East African Community Countries

Yi David Wang

2010/193: The Effectiveness of Macroeconomic Commitment in Weak(er) Institutional Environments

Marc Quintyn and Sophia Gollwitzer

2010/192: The Dynamic Effects of Commodity Prices on Fiscal Performance in Latin America

Leandro Medina

2010/191: A Macro Model of the Credit Channel in a Currency Union Member: The Case of Benin

Issouf Samaké

2010/190: Price of Risk: Recent Evidence From Large Financials

Manmohan Singh and Karim Youssef

2010/189: Still Minding the Gap—Inflation Dynamics during Episodes of Persistent Large Output Gaps

Andre Meier

2010/188: Dedollarization

Annamaria Kokenyne, Jeremy Ley and Romain Veyrune

2010/187: Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: A Sectoral and Institutional Approach

Jiangyan Yu and James Walsh

2010/186: Peaks, Spikes, and Barrels: Modeling Sharp Movements in Oil Prices

Malika Pant, Martin Mühleisen and Alun Thomas

2010/185: Output and Unemployment Dynamics during the Great Recession: A Panel Unobserved Components Analysis

Francis Vitek