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2006/118: Reflections on Quantitative Fiscal Conditionality in African PRGF-Supported Programs

Daria Zakharova and Annalisa Fedelino

2006/117: A Superior Hybrid Cash-Flow Taxon Corporations

Howell Zee

2006/116: Enforcement and the Stability and Growth Pact: How Fiscal Policy Did and Did Not Change Under Europe’s Fiscal Framework

Anthony Annett

2006/115: Excess Liquidity and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Magnus Saxegaard

2006/114: The Korean Crisis: What Did We Know and When Did We Know It? What Stress Tests of the Corporate Sector Reveal

Meral Karasulu and Matthew Jones

2006/113: Growth and Productivity in Papua New Guinea

Ebrima Faal

2006/112: Fiscal Policy and Interest Rates: How Sustainable Is The “New Economy”?

Manmohan Kumar and David Hauner

2006/111: A Framework for Independent Monetary Policy in China

Marvin Goodfriend and Eswar Prasad

2006/110: The Role of Interest Rates in Business Cycle Fluctuations in Emerging Market Countries: The Case of Thailand

Ivan Tchakarov and Selim Elekdag

2006/109: Donor Herding and Domestic Debt Crisis

Ephraim Chirwa, Montfort Mlachila and Yohane Khamfula

2006/108: Reforming Employment Protection Legislation in France

Jianping Zhou

2006/107: Idiosyncratic and Systemic Risk in the European Corporate Sector: A CDO Perspective

Yinqiu Lu and Jorge Chan-Lau

2006/106: Aid Scaling Up: Do Wage Bill Ceilings Stand in the Way?

Annalisa Fedelino, Gerd Schwartz and Marijn Verhoeven

2006/105: A New Risk Indicator and Stress Testing Tool: A Multifactor Nth-to-Default CDS Basket

Renzo Avesani, Jing Li and Antonio Garcia Pascual

2006/104: Market-Based Estimation of Default Probabilities and its Application to Financial Market Surveillance

Jorge Chan-Lau

2006/103: Mind the Gap—Is Economic Growth in India Leaving Some States Behind?

Catriona Purfield

2006/102: IMF Data Standards Initiatives: A Consultative Approach To Enhancing Global Data Transparency

Anne Kester

2006/101: Sudden Stops and IMF-Supported Programs

Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta and Ashoka Mody

2006/100: Using the Balance Sheet Approach in Surveillance: Framework, Data Sources, and Data Availability

Anthony Pellechio and Johan Mathisen

2006/099: Determinants of Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure

Etienne Yehoue, Mona Hammami and Jean-François Ruhashyankiko

2006/098: Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: A New Data Set

Anastasia Guscina and Olivier Jeanne

2006/097: Core Inflation Measures and Statistical Issues in Choosing Among Them

Mick Silver

2006/096: Uncovered Interest Parity

Peter Isard

2006/095: Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Challenges of Population Aging

Hamid Faruqee and Natalia Tamirisa

2006/094: Interest Rate Determination in Lebanon

Tushar Poddar, Mangal Goswami, Juan Sole and Victor Echévarria Icaza

2006/093: The Tax System in India: Could Reform Spur Growth?

Hélène Poirson

2006/092: Why Are Women Working So Much More in Canada? An International Perspective

Evridiki Tsounta

2006/091: Distributional Effects of Oil Price Changeson Household Expenditures: Evidence From Mali

Kangni Kpodar

2006/090: What is Fuzzy About Clustering in West Africa?

Mahvash Qureshi and Charalambos Tsangarides

2006/089: Options for Fiscal Consolidation in the United Kingdom

Dennis Botman and Keiko Honjo

2006/088: Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies

Enrique Mendoza

2006/087: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Macroeconomic Impact of an Aging Population in a Highly Open Economy

Lamin Leigh

2006/086: Emigration and Wages in Source Countries: Evidence From Mexico

Prachi Mishra

2006/085: How to Evaluate GDP-Linked Warrants: Price and Repayment Capacity

Ken Miyajima

2006/084: Disintermediation and Monetary Transmission in Canada

Jorge Roldos

2006/083: Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets

Bennett Sutton, Tamim Bayoumi and Andrew Swiston

2006/082: Adopting Full Dollarization in Postconflict Economies: Would the Gains Compensate for the Losses in Liberia?

Liliana Schumacher and Jiro Honda

2006/081: Practical Model-Based Monetary Policy Analysis: A How-To Guide

Douglas Laxton, Andrew Berg and Philippe Karam

2006/080: A Practical Model-Based Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis—Overview

Douglas Laxton, Andrew Berg and Philippe Karam

2006/079: International Financial Integration, Sovereignty, and Constraints on Macroeconomic Policies

Kenneth Kletzer

2006/078: Sovereign Borrowing Cost and the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives

John Cady and Anthony Pellechio

2006/077: Public-Private Partnerships: A Public Economics Perspective

Efraim Sadka

2006/076: Perspectiveson Low Global Interest Rates

Luis Catão and George Mackenzie

2006/075: The Role of IMF Support in Crisis Prevention

Uma Ramakrishnan and Juan Zalduendo

2006/074: Determinants of Venezuela’s Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate

Juan Zalduendo

2006/073: Are Asset Price Guarantees Useful for Preventing Sudden Stops?A Quantitative Investigation of the Globalization Hazard-Moral Hazard Tradeoff

Enrique Mendoza and C. Bora Durdu

2006/072: Fundamental Determinants of the Effects of Fiscal Policy

Manmohan Kumar and Dennis Botman

2006/071: Progress in China’s Banking Sector Reform: Has Bank Behavior Changed?

Richard Podpiera

2006/070: Energy, the Exchange Rate, and the Economy: Macroeconomic Benefits of Canada’s Oil Sands Production

Tamim Bayoumi and Martin Mühleisen

2006/069: The External Wealth of Nations Mark II: Revised and Extended Estimates of Foreign Assets and Liabilities, 1970–2004

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2006/068: The Utilization-Adjusted Output Gap: Is the Russian Economy Overheating?

Nienke Oomes and Oksana Dynnikova

2006/067: Primary Surplus Behavior and Risks to Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries: A "Fan-Chart" Approach

Oya Celasun, Xavier Debrun and Jonathan Ostry

2006/066: Toward a Lender of First Resort

Daniel Cohen and Richard Portes

2006/065: Volatility of Development Aid: From the Frying Pan into the Fire?

A. Javier Hamann and Ales Bulir

2006/064: Sovereign Insurance and Program Design: What is Optimal for the Sovereign?

Miguel Messmacher

2006/063: Government Debt and Long-Term Interest Rates

Noriaki Kinoshita

2006/062: World Crude Oil Markets: Monetary Policy and the Recent Oil Shock

Noureddine Krichene

2006/061: Beware of Emigrants Bearing Gifts: Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Presence of Remittances

Michael Gapen, Thomas Cosimano and Ralph Chami

2006/060: Inflation in Pakistan: Money or Wheat?

Mohsin Khan and Axel Schimmelpfennig

2006/059: An Evaluation of the World Economic Outlook Forecasts

Allan Timmermann

2006/058: Spending Seigniorage: Do Central Banks Have a Governance Problem?

Alain Ize

2006/057: Is One Watchdog Better Than Three? International Experience with Integrated Financial Sector Supervision

Martin Cihak and Richard Podpiera

2006/056: Trade, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Institutions

Andrei Levchenko and Quy-Toan Do

2006/055: The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China: A Nonparametric Approach

Bulent Unel and Harm Zebregs

2006/054: To Peg or Not to Peg: A Template for Assessing the Nobler

Aasim Husain

2006/053: Why Do Prices in Sierra Leone Change So Often? A Case Study Using Micro-level Price Data

Arto Kovanen

2006/052: Business Cycles and Workers' Remittances: How Do Migrant Workers Respond to Cyclical Movements of GDP At Home?

Serdar Sayan

2006/051: Malaysian Capital Controls: Macroeconomics and Institutions

Natalia Tamirisa, Simon Johnson, Kalpana Kochhar and Todd Mitton

2006/050: The Implications of Trade Barriers for Sectoral Diversification and Macroeconomic Stability in Developing Economies

Gabriel Srour

2006/049: Common Factors in Latin America's Business Cycles

Allan Timmermann, Luis Catão and Marco Aiolfi

2006/048: The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Jordan

Tushar Poddar, Hasmik Khachatryan and Randa Sab

2006/047: Domestic Taxes and International Trade: Some Evidence

Michael Keen and Murtaza Syed

2006/046: How Different Is the Cyclical Behavior of Home Production Across Countries?

Ayhan Kose and William Blankenau

2006/045: A New-Open-Economy Macro Model for Fiscal Policy Evaluation

Dirk Muir, Douglas Laxton, Dennis Botman and Andrei Romanov

2006/044: Banking Spreads in Latin America

R. Gaston Gelos

2006/043: Quasi-Fiscal Deficits and Energy Conditionality in Selected CIS Countries

Tapio Saavalainen and Joy Mylène Berge

2006/042: Banks During the Argentine Crisis: Were they All Hurt Equally? Did they All Behave Equally?

V. Juan-Ramon, Emiliano Basco, Carlos Quarracino and Adolfo Barajas

2006/041: Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy: Accuracy is (Still) a Matter of Geography

Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher and Helge Berger

2006/040: Macroeconomic Challenges with EU Accession in Southeastern Europe: An Overview

Piritta Sorsa

2006/039: Does NGO Aid Go to the Poor? Empirical Evidence from Europe

Gilles Nancy and Boriana Yontcheva

2006/038: Providing official Statistics for the Common Market and Monetary Union in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Case for "Gulfstat"

Abdulrahman Al-Mansouri and Claudia Dziobek

2006/037: The Impact of Foreign Interest Rateson the Economy: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime

Julian di Giovanni and Jay Shambaugh

2006/036: Does Inflation in China Affect the United States and Japan?

Luke Willard and Tarhan Feyzioglu

2006/035: Does Economic Diversification Lead to Financial Development? Evidence From topography

Rodney Ramcharan

2006/034: Regulatory Capture in Banking

International Monetary Fund

2006/033: Financial Sector Projections and Stress Testing in Financial Programming: A New Framework

Antonio Garcia Pascual, Nada Choueiri and Ritu Basu

2006/032: Toward An Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems

Antonio Garcia Pascual, Jorge Cayazzo, Socorro Heysen and Eva Gutierrez

2006/031: Stylized Facts on Bilateral Trade and Currency Unions: Implications for Africa

Michal Hulej, Charalambos Tsangarides and Pierre Ewenczyk

2006/030: Wealth Effects in Europe: A Tale of Two Countries (Italy and the United Kingdom)

Sònia Muñoz

2006/029: Habit Formation and Persistence in Individual Asset Portfolio Holdings: The Case of Italy

Sònia Muñoz

2006/028: Zimbabwe's Export Performance: The Impact of the Parallel Market and Governance Factors

Sònia Muñoz

2006/027: Procyclical Fiscal Policy: Shocks, Rules, and Institutions: A View From Mars

Paolo Manasse

2006/026: Fiscal Policy and Financial Development

David Hauner

2006/025: Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence From the Caribbean

Prachi Mishra

2006/024: Implications of Quasi-Fiscal Activities in Ghana

Mali Chivakul and Robert York

2006/023: Tax Incentives and Investment in the Eastern Caribbean

Sebastian Sosa

2006/022: India's Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows?

Arvind Subramanian, Raghuram Rajan, Ioannis Tokatlidis, Kalpana Kochhar and Utsav Kumar

2006/021: Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

Marcos Chamon and Michael Kremer

2006/020: Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?

Stephen Tokarick

2006/019: Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: An Example

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