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2011/046: Current Account Rebalancing and Real Exchange Rate Adjustment Between the U.S. and Emerging Asia

Damiano Sandri, Pau Rabanal and Isabelle Mejean

2011/045: The Real Effects of Financial Sector Interventions During Crises

Fabian Valencia and Luc Laeven

2011/044: Sovereign Credit Ratings and Spreads in Emerging Markets: Does Investment Grade Matter?

Laura Jaramillo and Michelle Tejada

2011/043: New Indicators for Tracking Growth in Real Time

Troy Matheson

2011/042: Limits of Floating Exchange Rates: the Role of Foreign Currency Debt and Import Structure

Pascal Towbin and Sebastian Weber

2011/041: Fiscal Policy During Absorption Cycles

Ferhan Salman and Gabriela Dobrescu

2011/040: Growth in Africa Under Peace and Market Reforms

Olessia Korbut, Gonzalo Salinas and Cheikh Gueye

2011/039: Measuring Energy Security: Trends in the Diversification of Oil and Natural Gas Supplies

Prakash Loungani, Fred Joutz and Gail Cohen

2011/038: The Demographic Dividend: Evidence from the Indian States

Ashoka Mody and Shekhar Aiyar

2011/037: Investing in Public Investment: An Index of Public Investment Efficiency

Zac Mills, Annette Kyobe, Jim Brumby, Chris Papageorgiou and Era Dabla-Norris

2011/036: Central Bank Balances and Reserve Requirements

Simon Gray

2011/035: The Great Rebalancing Act: Can Investment Be a Lever in Asia?

Malhar Nabar and Murtaza Syed

2011/034: What Drives the Performance of Selected MENA Banks? A Meta-Frontier Analysis

Sami Ben Naceur, Barbara Casu and Hichem Ben-Khedhiri

2011/033: Conformism and Public News

Celine Rochon and Gabriel Desgranges

2011/032: Recession and Policy Transmission to Latin American Tourism: Does Expanded Travel to Cuba Offset Crisis Spillovers?

Andy Wolfe and Rafael Romeu

2011/031: Classifications of Countries Basedon their Level of Development: How it is Done and How it Could Be Done

Lynge Nielsen

2011/030: The Electricity Sector in FYR Macedonia

Alexander Tieman

2011/029: Stress Tests for Defined Benefit Pension Plans – A Primer

Gregorio Impavido

2011/028: An Estimated Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model of the Jordanian Economy

Tigran Poghosyan and Samya Beidas-Strom

2011/027: Global Shocks and their Impacton Low-Income Countries: Lessons From theglobal Financial Crisis

Chris Papageorgiou, Hans Weisfeld, Catherine Pattillo, Martin Schindler, Nikola Spatafora and Andrew Berg

2011/026: Reversing the Financial Accelerator: Credit Conditions and Macro-Financial Linkages

Tamim Bayoumi and Reginald Darius

2011/025: Globalization, the Business Cycle, and Macroeconomic Monitoring

S. Boragan Aruoba, Marco Terrones, Ayhan Kose and Francis Diebold

2011/024: Overborrowing, Financial Crises and ‘Macro-prudential’ Policy

Enrique Mendoza and Javier Bianchi

2011/023: Consolidated Regulation and Supervision in the United States

Ashok Bhatia

2011/022: Exploration of the Brazilian Term Structure in a Hidden Markov Framework

Richard Munclinger

2011/021: Government Debt Issuance in the Euro Area: The Impact of the Financial Crisis

International Monetary Fund

2011/020: Armenia: An Assessment of the Real Exchange Rate and Competitiveness

Anke Weber and Chunfang Yang

2011/019: Investment Objectives of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A Shifting Paradigm

Iva Petrova, Jukka Pihlman, Peter Kunzel and Yinqiu Lu

2011/018: Determinants of Remittances: Evidence From tonga

Huidan Lin

2011/017: Strengthening Chile's Rule-Based Fiscal Framework

Teresa Daban Sanchez

2011/016: Trade and Trade Finance in the 2008-09 Financial Crisis

Thomas Dorsey, Mika Saito, Armine Khachatryan, Irena Asmundson and Ioana Niculcea

2011/015: To Fire or to Hoard? Explaining Japan’s Labor Market Response in the Great Recession

Chad Steinberg and Masato Nakane

2011/014: Interpreting Currency Movements During the Crisis: What's the Role of Interest Rate Differentials?

Thomas Dowling and Nicoletta Batini

2011/013: The Impact of Fiscal Consolidation and Structural Reformson Growth in Japan

Pelin Berkmen

2011/012: How Does Political Instability Affect Economic Growth?

Ari Aisen and Francisco Veiga

2011/011: The Spanish Labor Market in a Cross-Country Perspective

Florence Jaumotte

2011/010: What is Driving Financial De-Dollarization in Latin America?

Mercedes Garcia-Escribano and Sebastian Sosa

2011/009: Capital Flows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and the Real Exchange Rate

Jean-Louis Combes, Patrick Plane and Tidiane Kinda

2011/008: Sources of Corporate Profits in India: Business Dynamism or Advantages of Entrenchment?

Michael Walton, Anusha Nath and Ashoka Mody

2011/007: India's Financial Globalisation

Ila Patnaik and Ajay Shah

2011/006: The Effects of Housing Prices and Monetary Policy in a Currency Union

Pau Rabanal and Oriol Aspachs-Bracons

2011/005: Monetary Policy Transmission in an Emerging Market Setting

Ila Patnaik, Ajay Shah and Rudrani Bhattacharya

2011/004: Asian Financial Integration: Trends and Interruptions

Eduardo Borensztein and Prakash Loungani

2011/003: How Does Trade Evolve in the Aftermath of Financial Crises?

Abdul Abiad, Petia Topalova and Prachi Mishra

2011/002: The Chilean Output Gap

Leandro Medina and Nicolas Magud

2011/001: A Barrel of Oil or a Bottle of Wine: How Do Global Growth Dynamics Affect Commodity Prices?

Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Serhan Cevik

2010/297: Macroeconomic Effects of Public Pension Reforms

Joana Pereira, Philippe Karam, Dirk Muir and Anita Tuladhar

2010/296: Learning About Inflation Measures for Interest Rate Rules

Luis-Felipe Zanna and Marco Airaudo

2010/295: European Financial Linkages: A New Look At Imbalances

International Monetary Fund

2010/294: Japan’s Quest for Growth: Exploring the Role of Capital and innovation

Murtaza Syed and Jinsook Lee

2010/293: Rebalancing in Japan: The Role of Private Consumption

Kiichi Tokuoka

2010/292: Weathering the Global Storm: The Benefits of Monetary Policy Reform in the LA5 Countries

International Monetary Fund

2010/291: What Drives House Prices in Australia? A+L4584 Cross-Country Approach

Shengzu Wang and Patrizia Tumbarello

2010/290: Export Versus FDI in Services

International Monetary Fund

2010/289: Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China

Kai Liu, Marcos Chamon and Eswar Prasad

2010/288: Estimating a Structural Model of Herd Behavior in Financial Markets

Antonio Guarino and Marco Cipriani

2010/287: Workers’ Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Evidence

Ralph Chami, Adolfo Barajas, Peter Montiel and Dalia Hakura

2010/286: Bank Capital: Lessons From the Financial Crisis

Ouarda Merrouche, Enrica Detragiache and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

2010/285: Estimating Potential Output with a Multivariate Filter

International Monetary Fund

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