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2010/043: Current Account Balance Estimates for Emerging Market Economies

Jordi Prat, Leandro Medina and Alun Thomas

2010/042: Informal Labour and Credit Markets: A Survey

Paul Levine, Emanuela Lotti, Nicoletta Batini and Young-Bae Kim

2010/041: Bankruptcy and Firm Dynamics: The Case of the Missing Firms

Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado

2010/040: Risk and the Corporate Structure of Banks

International Monetary Fund

2010/039: Do Currency Fundamentals Matter for Currency Speculators?

Masahiro Nozaki

2010/038: Cross-Border Investment in Small International Financial Centers

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2010/037: Growth and Capital Flows with Risky Entrepreneurship

Damiano Sandri

2010/036: Monetary Policy Transmission in Mauritius Using a VAR Analysis

Charalambos Tsangarides

2010/035: Spillovers to Central America in Light of the Crisis: What a Difference a Year Makes

Andrew Swiston

2010/034: The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model (GIMF) – Theoretical Structure

Douglas Laxton, Susanna Mursula, Michael Kumhof and Dirk Muir

2010/033: Evaluation of the Oil Fiscal Regime in Russia and Proposals for Reform

Brenton Goldsworthy and Daria Zakharova

2010/032: Optimal Monetary Policy with Overlapping Generations of Policymakers

Maral Shamloo

2010/031: Constraints on Trade in the MENA region

Hirut Wolde and Rina Bhattacharya

2010/030: Constraintson Growth in the MENA Region

Rina Bhattacharya and Hirut Wolde

2010/029: Systemic Risks and the Macroeconomy

Marcella Lucchetta and Gianni De Nicolo

2010/028: Fiscal Policy in Oil Producing Countries During the Recent Oil Price Cycle

International Monetary Fund

2010/027: Recovery Determinants of Distressed Banks: Regulators, Market Discipline, or the Environment?

Michael Koetter, Tigran Poghosyan and Thomas Kick

2010/026: International Pricing of Emerging Market Corporate Debt: Does the Corporate Matter?

Sonja Keller and Ashoka Mody

2010/025: A Model for Full-Fledged Inflation Targeting and Application to Ghana

Kevin Clinton, Jihad Dagher, Ondrej Kamenik, Douglas Laxton, Ali Alichi and Marshall Mills

2010/024: The Global Financial Crisis and Workers' Remittances to Africa: What's the Damage?

Ralph Chami, Adolfo Barajas, Anjali Garg and Connel Fullenkamp

2010/023: Financial Shocks and TFP L4318Growth

Tiago Severo and Marcello Estevão

2010/022: The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms

Isabelle Mejean, Thierry Mayer and Benjamin Nefussi

2010/021: An Estimated Model with Macrofinancial Linkages for India

Magnus Saxegaard, Rahul Anand and Shanaka Peiris

2010/020: Dissecting Taylor Rules in a Structural VAR

Woon Gyu Choi and Yi Wen

2010/019: The Outlook for Financing Japan's Public Debt

Kiichi Tokuoka

2010/018: Responding to Banking Crises: Lessons From Cross-Country Evidence

Enrica Detragiache and Giang Ho

2010/017: Inflation in Tajikistan: Forecasting Analysis and Monetary Policy Challenges

Svetlana Vtyurina and Fahad Alturki

2010/016: China: Does Government Health and Education Spending Boost Consumption?

Steven Barnett and R. Brooks

2010/015: Estimating Poland's Potential Output: A Production Function Approach

Natan Epstein and Corrado Macchiarelli

2010/014: Are Financial Crises Alike?

Chrismin Tang, Mardi Dungey, Vance Martin, Brenda Gonzalez-Hermosillo and Renee Fry-McKibbin

2010/013: Canada's Potential Growth: Another Victim of the Crisis?

Marcello Estevão and Evridiki Tsounta

2010/012: Exchange Rate Choices of Microstates

Patrick Imam

2010/011: After the Crisis: Lower Consumption Growth But Narrower Global Imbalances?

Franziska Ohnsorge and Ashoka Mody

2010/010: Sovereign Default Risk and Private Sector Access to Capital in Emerging Markets

Udaibir Das, Michael Papaioannou and Christoph Trebesch

2010/009: Macrofinancial Linkages of the Strategic Asset Allocation of Commodity-Based Sovereign Wealth Funds

Aaron Howard Clifford Brown, Michael Papaioannou and Iva Petrova

2010/008: The Spillover Effects of the Global Crisison Economic Activity in Mena Emerging Market Countries: An Analysis Using the Financial Stress Index

Kenji Moriyama

2010/007: What Level of Public Debt Could India Target?

Petia Topalova and Dan Nyberg

2010/006: Correlations in Emerging Market Bonds: The Role of Local and Global Factors

A. Javier Hamann, Irina Bunda and Subir Lall

2010/005: The Impact of the Global Crisis on Canada—What Do Macro-Financial Linkages Tell Us?

Rupa Duttagupta and N. Barrera

2010/004: Inherited or Earned? Performance of Foreign Banks in Central and Eastern Europe

Emilia Jurzyk and Olena Havrylchyk

2010/003: Investment by Large Firms in Argentina

Alvaro Piris Chavarri

2010/002: Public Debt Sustainability and Management in a Compound Option Framework

Jorge Chan-Lau and Andre Santos

2010/001: Post-Crisis Bank Behavior: Lessons From Mercosur

Sarah Sanya and Montfort Mlachila

2009/288: The Housing Cycle in Emerging Middle Eastern Economies and its Macroeconomic Policy Implications

Samya Beidas-Strom, Weicheng Lian and Ashwaq Maseeh

2009/287: A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis

Deniz Igan, Thierry Tressel and Prachi Mishra

2009/286: Jointly Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy Rules under Borrowing Constraints

Michael Kumhof and Huixin Bi

2009/285: On the Sources of Oil Price Fluctuations

Deren Ünalmış, Ibrahim Unalmis and Filiz Unsal

2009/284: Growth and Structural Reforms: A New Assessment

Lone Engbo Christiansen, Thierry Tressel and Martin Schindler

2009/283: Trade and Thy Neighbor’s War

Mahvash Qureshi

2009/282: “Lost Decade” in Translation - What Japan’s Crisis could Portend about Recovery from the Great Recession

Kiichi Tokuoka, Murtaza Syed and Kenneth Kang

2009/281: Exchange Rate Assessments: Methodologies for Oil Exporting Countries

Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Rudolfs Bems

2009/280: The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact

R. Gaston Gelos, Robert Rennhack, James Walsh and Pelin Berkmen

2009/279: Elasticity Optimism

International Monetary Fund

2009/278: The General Data Dissemination System (GDDS)—A Reflection on its First 12 Years and Plans for Taking it Forward

Robin Kibuka and Charles Enoch

2009/277: How Russia Affects the Neighborhood - Trade, Financial, and Remittance Channels

Jaime Espinosa-Bowen, Nadeem Ilahi and Fahad Alturki

2009/276: Accounting for Global Dispersion of Current Accounts

Jaewoo Lee, Yongsung Chang and Sun-Bin Kim

2009/275: The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment

Jaewoo Lee, Fabio Ghironi and Alessandro Rebucci

2009/274: Cyclical Patterns of Government Expenditures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Facts and Factors

Irene Yackovlev, Victor Lledo and Lucie Gadenne

2009/273: Being a Foreigner Among Domestic Banks: Asset or Liability?

Neeltje Van Horen and Stijn Claessens

2009/272: Who Disciplines Bank Managers?

Andrea Maechler, Klaus Schaeck, Martin Cihak and Stéphanie Marie Stolz

2009/271: The Hedonic Country Product Dummy Method and Quality Adjustments for Purchasing Power Parity Calculations

Mick Silver

2009/270: Foreign Bank Entry and Credit Allocation in Emerging Markets

Sylwester Kozak, Emilia Jurzyk, Hans Degryse and Olena Havrylchyk

2009/269: A Framework to Assess the Effectiveness of IMF Technical Assistance in National Accounts

Gonzalo Pastor Campos

2009/268: Growth Determinants Revisited

Charalambos Tsangarides and Alin Mirestean

2009/267: Oil Rents, Corruption, and State Stability - Evidence From Panel Data Regressions

International Monetary Fund

2009/266: How Does Public External Debt Affect Corporate Borrowing Costs In Emerging Markets?

Oya Celasun and Senay Agca

2009/265: Emerging Economy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–09 - An Empirical Analysis of the Liquidity Easing Measures

Etienne Yehoue

2009/264: Investment-Specific Productivity Growth - Chile in a Global Perspective

C. Di Bella and Martin Cerisola

2009/263: Estimating Demand for IMF Financing by Low-Income Countries in Response to Shocks

Yasemin Bal Gündüz

2009/262: Inflation Targeting Pillars - Transparency and Accountability

Douglas Laxton and Charles Freedman

2009/261: Systemic Liquidity Management in the U.A.E.: Issues and Options

Alexandre Chailloux and Dalia Hakura

2009/260: Improving Surveillance Across the CEMAC Region

Plamen Iossifov, Misa Takebe, Zaijin Zhan, Noriaki Kinoshita and Robert York

2009/259: From Lombard Street to Avenida Paulista: Foreign Exchange Liquidity Easing in Brazil in Response to the Global Shock of 2008–09

Mark Stone, W. Christopher Walker and Yosuke Yasui

2009/258: Institutional Factors and Financial Sector Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Hovhannes Toroyan and George Anayiotos

2009/257: Countercyclical Macro Prudential Policies in a Supporting Role to Monetary Policy

Papa N'Diaye

2009/256: Macroeconomic Implications for Hong Kong SAR of Accommodative U.S. Monetary Policy

Papa N'Diaye

2009/255: Fiscal Stimulus to the Rescue? Short-Run Benefits and Potential Long-Run Costs of Fiscal Deficits

Douglas Laxton, Dirk Muir, Michael Kumhof, Susanna Mursula and Charles Freedman

2009/254: Credit Derivatives: Systemic Risks and Policy Options?

John Kiff, Jennifer Elliott, Elias Kazarian, Jodi Scarlata and Carolyne Spackman

2009/253: Adding Indonesia to the Global Projection Model

Roberto Garcia-Saltos, Douglas Laxton, Michal Andrle, Haris Munandar, Charles Freedman and Danny Hermawan

2009/252: Macroeconomic Patterns and Monetary Policy in the Run-up to Asset Price Busts

Alasdair Scott, Pau Rabanal and Prakash Kannan

2009/251: Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Rules in a Model with House Price Booms

Alasdair Scott, Pau Rabanal and Prakash Kannan

2009/250: The Stock of Intangible Capital in Canada: Evidence from the Aggregate Value of Securities

Nazim Belhocine

2009/249: Countering the Cycle—The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Korea

Leif Eskesen

2009/248: Today versus Tomorrow - The Sensitivity of the Non-Oil Current Account Balance to Permanent and Current Income

Alun Thomas and Tamim Bayoumi

2009/247: Financial Sector Surveillance and the IMF

Carlo Gola and Francesco Spadafora

2009/246: Governance and Fund Management in the Chinese Pension System

Yu-Wei Hu, Gregorio Impavido and Xiaohong Li

2009/245: What’s the Damage? Medium-term Output Dynamics After Banking Crises

Abdul Abiad, Petya Brooks, Irina Tytell, Daniel Leigh and Ravi Balakrishnan

2009/244: A Rule-Based Medium-Term Fiscal Policy Framework for Tanzania

Daehaeng Kim and Mika Saito

2009/243: Top-Down Budgeting—An Instrument to Strengthen Budget Management

Gösta Ljungman

2009/242: Valuation of Unlisted Direct Investment Equity

Thomas Elkjaer, Jannick Damgaard and Emmanuel Kumah

2009/241: The Role of Financial Variables in Predicting Economic Activity in the Euro Area

Marco Lombardi, Raphael Espinoza and Fabio Fornari

2009/240: Treating Intangible Inputs as Investment Goods: The Impact on Canadian GDP

Nazim Belhocine

2009/239: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Financial Stability—An Event Study Analysis

Heiko Hesse and Tao Sun

2009/238: Monetary Policy Analysis and Forecasting in the World Economy: A Panel Unobserved Components Approach

Francis Vitek

2009/237: Fiscal Deficits and Current Account Deficits

Michael Kumhof and Douglas Laxton

2009/236: Inflation Targeting at 20 - Achievements and Challenges

Scott Roger

2009/235: Is the Canadian Housing Market Overvalued? A Post-crisis Assessment

Evridiki Tsounta

2009/234: Hybrid Inflation Targeting Regimes

Carlos García, Jorge Restrepo and Scott Roger

2009/233: Excessive Lending, Leverage, and Risk-Taking in the Presence of Bailout Expectations

Andréas Georgiou

2009/232: Monetary Policy and the Lost Decade: Lessons from Japan

Daniel Leigh