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2007/055: Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions

Rabah Arezki and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

2007/054: The Quest for Price Stability in Central America and the Dominican Republic*

Eric Parrado and Luis Jácome

2007/053: Are Regional Trade Agreements in Asia Stumbling or Building Blocks? Implications for the Mekong-3 Countries

Patrizia Tumbarello

2007/052: The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints

Arvind Subramanian, Jonathan Ostry and Simon Johnson

2007/051: Democracy and Foreign Education

Antonio Spilimbergo

2007/050: External Debt and Economic Reform: Does a Pain Reliever Delay the Necessary Treatment?

Athanasios Vamvakidis

2007/049: On The Welfare Benefits of an International Currency

Prakash Kannan

2007/048: The Lending Channel in Emerging Economies: Are Foreign Banks Different?

Francisco Vazquez, Carmen Reinhart and Marco Arena

2007/047: Financial Globalization and the Governance of Domestic Financial Intermediaries

Thierry Tressel and Thierry Verdier

2007/046: Tax Reform and Debt Sustainability in Germany: An Assessment Using the Global Fiscal Model

Dennis Botman and Stephan Danninger

2007/045: Pricing Fund Liquidity Provision

Marco Rossi

2007/044: External Linkages and Contagion Risk in Irish Banks

Srobona Mitra and Elena Duggar

2007/043: Colonial Origins, Institutions and Economic Performance in the Caribbean: Guyana and Barbados

Michael DaCosta

2007/042: Give Trust a Chance—A Model of Trust in the Context of an IMF-Supported Program

Daouda Sembene

2007/041: Inflation in Poland: How Much Can Globalization Explain?

Céline Allard

2007/040: Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA

Anna Maria Mayda and Chad Steinberg

2007/039: Capital Structure and International Debt Shifting

Luc Laeven, Harry Huizinga and Gaëtan Nicodème

2007/038: Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sanjeev Gupta, Catherine Pattillo and Smita Wagh

2007/037: Strategies for Fiscal Consolidation in Japan

Dennis Botman, Papa N'Diaye and Hali Edison

2007/036: Danish for All? Balancing Flexibility with Security: The Flexicurity Model

Jianping Zhou

2007/035: Remittances in the Pacific Region

Aiko Mineshima and Christopher Browne

2007/034: Fixed Exchange Rates and the Autonomy of Monetary Policy: The Franc Zone Case

Romain Veyrune

2007/033: Exchange Rate Policy and Liability Dollarization: An Empirical Study

Pelin Berkmen and Eduardo Cavallo

2007/032: Sources of Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Shanaka Peiris and Régis Barnichon

2007/031: VAT Fraud and Evasion: What Do We Know, and What Can be Done?

Stephen Smith and Michael Keen

2007/030: Precautionary Monetary and Fiscal Policies

Pelin Berkmen

2007/029: Aging, Asset Allocation, and Costs: Evidence for the Pension Fund Industry in Switzerland

Rene Weber and David Gerber

2007/028: Public Pension Reform: A Primer

Alain Jousten

2007/027: Fiscal Policy and the Exchange Rate-Current Account Nexus

Jun Kim

2007/026: Italy—Assessing Competition and Efficiency in the Banking System

International Monetary Fund

2007/025: The Fear of Freedom: Politicians and the Independence and Accountability of Financial Sector Supervisors

Michael Taylor, Marc Quintyn and Silvia Ramirez

2007/024: What Explains Germany’s Rebounding Export Market Share?

Fred Joutz and Stephan Danninger

2007/023: Safta: Living in a World of Regional Trade Agreements

Jose Daniel Rodríguez-Delgado

2007/022: Are Workers' Remittances a Hedge Against Macroeconomic Shocks? the Case of Sri Lanka

Marta Ruiz-Arranz and Erik Lueth

2007/021: Public Expenditure in Latin America: Trends and Key Policy Issues

Benedict Clements, Christopher Faircloth and Marijn Verhoeven

2007/020: The Use of Mortgage Covered Bonds

Renzo Avesani, Elina Ribakova and Antonio Garcia Pascual

2007/019: The CFA Arrangements: More than Just An Aid Substitute?

Etienne Yehoue

2007/018: Building Supervisory Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analytical Framework

Marc Quintyn and Michael Taylor

2007/017: Lucas vs. Lucas: On Inequality and Growth

Juan Cordoba and Genevieve Verdier

2007/016: Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations

Gouranga Das

2007/015: Mortality and Lifetime Income: Evidence from U.S. Social Security Records

John Greenlees, James Duggan and Robert Gillingham

2007/014: China: Strengthening Monetary Policy Implementation

Bernard Laurens and Rodolfo Maino

2007/013: What Should Macroeconomists Know about Health Care Policy?

Peter Heller

2007/012: Public Debt and Fiscal Vulnerability in the Middle East

Ludvig Söderling, Hanan Morsy, Martin Petri, Martin Hommes, Manal Fouad and Wojciech Maliszewski

2007/011: Role of Debt Maturity Structureon Firm Fixed Assets During Sudden Stop Episodes: Evidence From Thailand

Hanan Morsy, Maria Pia Iannariello and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara

2007/010: Quasi-Fiscal Deficit in Non-Financial Enterprises

Robert Tchaidze

2007/009: Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China

David Dollar and Shang-Jin Wei

2007/008: Collateral Damage: Exchange Controls and International Trade

Zhiwei Zhang and Shang-Jin Wei

2007/007: Monetary Policy Implementation: Results from a Survey

Inese Buzeneca and Rodolfo Maino

2007/006: Can a Rule-Based Monetary Policy Framework Work in a Developing Country? The Case of Yemen

Selim Elekdag, Nabil Ben Ltaifa, Todd Schneider and Saade Chami

2007/005: Yemen: Exchange Rate Policy in the Face of Dwindling Oil Exports

Todd Schneider, Nabil Ben Ltaifa, Faisal Ahmed and Saade Chami

2007/004: Debt Dynamics and Global Imbalances: Some Conventional Views Reconsidered

Guy Meredith

2007/003: Banking Sector Integration and Competition in CEMAC

Jérôme Vacher and Samer Saab

2007/002: Cooperative Banks and Financial Stability

Martin Cihak and Heiko Hesse

2007/001: Policy Credibility and Sovereign Credit: The Case of New EU Member States

Manmohan Kumar, Jirí Jonáš and David Hauner

2006/304: Trade Liberalization, Macroeconomic Adjustment, and Welfare: Unifying Trade and Macro Models

Ehsan Choudhri, Hamid Faruqee and Stephen Tokarick

2006/303: Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict: The Case of the Central African Republic

Mark Lewis, Jean-Claude Nachega, Said Bakhache and Kadima Kalonji

2006/302: On Myopic Equilibria in Dynamic Games with Endogenous Discounting

Wilko Bolt and Alexander Tieman

2006/301: The Shortcomings of a Partial Release of Employment Protection Laws: The Case of the 2005 French Reform

Pierre Cahuc and Stéphane Carcillo

2006/300: A VAR Analysis of Kenya’s Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism: How Does the Central Bank’s REPO Rate Affect the Economy?

Kevin Cheng

2006/299: Recent Dynamics of Crude Oil Prices

Noureddine Krichene

2006/298: Tax, Welfare, and Pension Reforms in Slovenia: Implications for Work Incentives and Labor Participation

Philippe Egoume Bossogo and Anita Tuladhar

2006/297: Bank Risk-Taking and Competition Revisited: New Theory and New Evidence

Gianni De Nicolo, Abu M. Jalal and John Boyd

2006/296: Economic Integration and Financial Stability: A European Perspective

Gianni De Nicolo and Alexander Tieman

2006/295: Probabilistic Sustainability of Public Debt: A Vector Autoregression Approach for Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey

Evan Tanner and Issouf Samaké

2006/294: Effects of Globalization on Labor’s Share in National Income

Anastasia Guscina

2006/293: Corporate Governance Quality: Trends and Real Effects

Kenichi Ueda, Gianni De Nicolo and Luc Laeven

2006/292: The Rise of Foreign Investment in China’s Banks—Taking Stock

Lamin Leigh and Richard Podpiera

2006/291: Rebalancing China’s Economy: What Does Growth Theory Tell Us?

Jahangir Aziz

2006/290: A Gravity Model of Workers’ Remittances

Erik Lueth and Marta Ruiz-Arranz

2006/289: Testing the Transparency Benefits of Inflation Targeting: Evidence from Private Sector Forecasts

Christopher Crowe

2006/288: Regulatory Lessons from the Crisis of Costa Rica’s Mutual Fund Industry

Ana Carvajal

2006/287: Volatility and Growth in Latin America: An Episodic Approach

Ratna Sahay and Rishi Goyal

2006/286: Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds

Dimitar Radev and Richard Allen

2006/285: How Does the Introduction of Health Insurance Change the Equity of Health Care Provision in Bulgaria?

Nora Markova

2006/284: Solow Versus Harrod-Domar: Reexamining the Aid Costs of the First Millennium Development Goal

Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Lennart Erickson

2006/283: Portfolio Credit Risk and Macroeconomic Shocks: Applications to Stress Testing Under Data-Restricted Environments

Miguel Segoviano

2006/282: Brazil’s Long-Term Growth Performance—Trying to Explain the Puzzle

Ricardo Adrogué, Martin Cerisola and R. Gaston Gelos

2006/281: Central Bank Boards Around the World: Why Does Membership Size Differ?

Helge Berger, Tonny Lybek and Volker Nitsch

2006/280: Financial Versus Monetary Mercantilism: Long-Run View of Large International Reserves Hoarding

Jaewoo Lee and Joshua Aizenman

2006/279: Uganda: Managing More Effective Decentralization

Giorgio Brosio, Ehtisham Ahmad and Maria Gonzalez

2006/278: Implementing Inflation Targeting: Institutional Arrangements, Target Design, and Communications

Marcel Peter, Scott Roger and Geoffrey Heenan

2006/277: Elements of Optimal Monetary Policy Committee Design

Jerome Vandenbussche

2006/276: Credit Flows, Fiscal Policy, and the External Deficit of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Daniel Kanda

2006/275: The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil

Irineu de Carvalho Filho and Marcos Chamon

2006/274: The IMF’s Reserves Template and Nominal Exchange Rate Volatility

Jesus Gonzalez-Garcia and John Cady

2006/273: Rethinking the Governance of the International Monetary Fund

Abbas Mirakhor and Iqbal Zaidi

2006/272: Is Asia Prepared for an Aging Population?

Peter Heller

2006/271: The Size Distribution of Firms, Cournot, and Optimal Taxation

Mark Gersovitz

2006/270: Making Fiscal Space Happen: Managing Fiscal Policy in a World of Scaled-Up Aid

Xavier Debrun, Peter Heller, Theo Thomas, Menachem Katz, Isabell Adenauer and Taline Koranchelian

2006/269: Currency Mismatches and Corporate Default Risk: Modeling, Measurement, and Surveillance Applications

Andre Santos and Jorge Chan-Lau

2006/268: Specification of a Stochastic Simulation Model for Assessing Debt Sustainability in Emerging Market Economies

Philippe Karam and Doug Hostland

2006/267: Financial Integration in Asia: Estimating the Risk-Sharing Gains for Australia and Other Nations

Benoît Mercereau

2006/266: Asian Equity Markets: Growth, Opportunities, and Challenges

Charles Kramer, Catriona Purfield, Hiroko Oura and Andreas Jobst

2006/265: What’s Driving Investment in China?

Steven Barnett and R. Brooks

2006/264: Banks As Coordinators of Economic Growth

Kenichi Ueda

2006/263: Can Good Events Lead to Bad Outcomes? Endogenous Banking Crises and Fiscal Policy Responses

Celine Rochon and Andrew Feltenstein

2006/262: Stabilizing Inflation in Iceland

Keiko Honjo and Benjamin Hunt

2006/261: Export Performance and External Competitiveness in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Eva Gutierrez

2006/260: Political Price Cycles in Regulated Industries: Theory and Evidence

Claudio Paiva and Rodrigo Moita