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- 2005/142: Tax Systems Under Fiscal Adjustment: A Dynamic CGE Analysis of the Brazilian Tax Reform

- Victor Lledo
- 2005/141: Competition in Indian Banking

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/140: Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective

- Mehmet Tosun
- 2005/139: Pakistan's Macroeconomic Adjustment and Resumption of Growth, 1999-2004

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/138: U.S. Tax Reform: An Overview of the Current Debate and Policy Options

- Thomas Dalsgaard
- 2005/137: Haircuts: Estimating Investor Losses in Sovereign Debt Restructurings, 1998-2005

- Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Federico Sturzenegger
- 2005/136: Liberalization, Prudential Supervision, and Capital Requirements: The Policy Trade-Offs

- Elina Ribakova
- 2005/135: The Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in a Commodity Exporting Country: Algeria’s Experience

- Taline Koranchelian
- 2005/134: Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times: A Practitioner’s Guide, with an Application to Poland

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/133: Slovakia’s 2004 Tax and Welfare Reforms

- David Moore
- 2005/132: Capital Account Liberalization and the Real Exchange Rate in Chile

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/131: Special Agricultural Safeguards: Virtual Benefits and Real Costs—Lessons for the Doha Round

- Jean-Jacques Hallaert
- 2005/130: On the Implementation of Transfers to Subnational Governments

- Bob Searle and Ehtisham Ahmad
- 2005/129: Bank Behavior in Developing Countries: Evidence from East Africa

- Richard Podpiera and Martin Cihak
- 2005/128: Too Much of a Good Thing? Credit Booms in Transition Economies: The Cases of Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine

- Christoph Duenwald, Nikolay Gueorguiev and Andrea Schaechter
- 2005/127: Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?

- Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian
- 2005/126: What Undermines Aid’s Impact on Growth?

- Arvind Subramanian and Raghuram Rajan
- 2005/125: Overpricing in Emerging Market Credit-Default-Swap Contracts: Some Evidence from Recent Distress Cases

- Jochen Andritzky and Manmohan Singh
- 2005/124: Regional Financial Conglomerates: A Case for Improved Supervision

- Thorvardur Tjoervi Olafsson and Julia Majaha-Jartby
- 2005/123: Endowment Versus Finance: A Wooden Barrel Theory of International Trade

- Jiandong Ju and Shang-Jin Wei
- 2005/122: Regional Integration of Stock Exchanges in Eastern and Southern Africa: Progress and Prospects

- Jacqueline Irving
- 2005/121: On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs

- Wolfgang Mayer and Alex Mourmouras
- 2005/120: Deficit Limits, Budget Rules, and Fiscal Policy

- Paolo Manasse
- 2005/119: The Dynamic Implications of Foreign Aid and Its Variability

- Timothy Lane, Leslie Lipschitz, Cristina Arellano and Ales Bulir
- 2005/118: Pace and Sequencing of Economic Policies

- Juan Zalduendo
- 2005/117: A Cross-Country Nonparametric Analysis of Bahrain’s Banking System

- Vlad Manole and David Grigorian
- 2005/116: Does the World Need a Universal Financial Institution?

- James Boughton
- 2005/115: Who Controls the Budget: The Legislature or the Executive?

- Ian Lienert
- 2005/114: Latin American Central Bank Reform: Progress and Challenges

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/113: Labor Productivity and Real Exchange Rate: The Balassa-Samuelson Disconnect in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

- Boileau Loko and Anita Tuladhar
- 2005/112: Tax Revenue and (or?) Trade Liberalization

- Michael Keen and Thomas Baunsgaard
- 2005/111: Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines

- Robert Burgess and V. Haksar
- 2005/110: Foreign Direct Investment in Southeastern Europe: How (and How Much) Can Policies Help?

- Elina Ribakova, Balázs Horváth, Dimitri Demekas and Yi Wu
- 2005/109: What Drives Inflation Expectations in Brazil? An Empirical Analysis

- Martin Cerisola and R. Gaston Gelos
- 2005/108: Subnational Public Financial Management: Institutions and Macroeconomic Considerations

- Maria Albino, Raju Singh and Ehtisham Ahmad
- 2005/107: Efficiency and Legitimacy: Trade-Offs in IMF Governance

- Carlo Cottarelli
- 2005/106: Underlying Factors Driving Fiscal Effort in Emerging Market Economies

- Taimur Baig and Abdul Abiad
- 2005/105: Three Attempts at Inflation Forecasting in Pakistan

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/104: Reforming the Russian Budget System: A Move to More Devolved Budget Management?

- Jack Diamond
- 2005/103: Technology Diffusion, Services, and Endogenous Growth in Europe. is the Lisbon Strategy Useful?

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/102: Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepôt Trade

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/101: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: What Are the Consequences of China’s WTO Entry for India’s Trade?

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/100: Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? Empirical Evidence from Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid

- Boriana Yontcheva and Nadia Masud
- 2005/099: New Rates from New Weights

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/098: Are Emerging Market Countries Learning to Float?

- Dalia Hakura
- 2005/097: Reforming Labor and Product Markets: Some Lessons from Two Decades of Experiments in Europe

- Tito Boeri
- 2005/096: Cross-Country Empirical Studies of Systemic Bank Distress: A Survey

- Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache
- 2005/095: International Risk Sharing and Currency Unions: The CFA Zones

- Etienne Yehoue
- 2005/094: Regional Trade Integration and WTO Accession: Which Is the Right Sequencing? An Application to the CIS

- Patrizia Tumbarello
- 2005/093: GDP Growth, Potential Output, and Output Gaps in Mexico

- Ebrima Faal
- 2005/092: How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? A Search Equilibrium Approach

- Domenico Fanizza and Taline Koranchelian
- 2005/091: Characterizing the Expenditure Uncertainties of Industrial Countries in the 21st Century

- Peter Heller and David Hauner
- 2005/090: Is the Middle East and North Africa Region Achieving Its Trade Potential?

- Ludvig Söderling
- 2005/089: Inflation Targeting and Output Growth: Empirical Evidence for the European Union

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/088: Insurance Companies in Emerging Markets

- Janet Kong and Manmohan Singh
- 2005/087: Personal Income Tax Reform: Concepts, Issues, and Comparative Country Developments

- Howell Zee
- 2005/086: Following Germany’s Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/085: Cataclysms and Currencies: Does the Exchange Rate Regime Matter for Real Shocks?

- Rodney Ramcharan
- 2005/084: The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets

- Ashoka Mody, Barry Eichengreen and Kenneth Kletzer
- 2005/083: The Impact of Macroeconomic Announcements on Emerging Market Bonds

- Jochen Andritzky, Geoffrey Bannister and Natalia Tamirisa
- 2005/082: Net Foreign Asset Positions and Consumption Dynamics in the International Economy

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/081: A Fiscal Price Tag for International Reserves

- David Hauner
- 2005/080: Transparency in Central Bank Financial Statement Disclosures

- Kenneth Sullivan
- 2005/079: The Chinese Approach to Capital Inflows: Patterns and Possible Explanations

- Shang-Jin Wei and Eswar Prasad
- 2005/078: Managing the Interest Rate Risk of Indian Banks’ Government Securities Holdings

- Amadou Sy
- 2005/077: Estimating the Implicit Inflation Target: An Application to U.S. Monetary Policy

- Daniel Leigh
- 2005/076: Quantitative Assessment of a Financial System—Barbados

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/075: Any Link Between Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

- Luis Jácome and Francisco Vazquez
- 2005/074: Relating the Knowledge Production Function to Total Factor Productivity: An Endogenous Growth Puzzle

- Fred Joutz and Yasser Abdih
- 2005/073: A Post-Reflation Monetary Framework for Japan

- Mark Stone and Charles Kramer
- 2005/072: Central Bank Losses and Experiences in Selected Countries

- Claudia Dziobek and John Dalton
- 2005/071: Aging: Some Pleasant Fiscal Arithmetic

- David Hauner
- 2005/070: Setting the Stage for a National Currency in the West Bank and Gaza: The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime

- Magda Kandil and Samya Beidas-Strom
- 2005/069: Iraq: Considerations on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations for the Constituent Assembly

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/068: Who is Still Haunted by the Specter of Communism? Explaining Relative Output Contractions Under Transition

- Katrin Elborgh-Woytek and Julian Berengaut
- 2005/067: Financial Integration, Growth, and Volatility

- Anne Epaulard and Aude Pommeret
- 2005/066: How Do Canadian Budget Forecasts Compare with Those of Other Industrial Countries?

- Martin Mühleisen, Kornelia Krajnyak, Stephan Danninger, David Hauner and Bennett Sutton
- 2005/065: Maintaining Competitiveness Under Equilibrium Real Appreciation: The Case of Slovakia

- Nienke Oomes
- 2005/064: Alternative Models of Wage Dispersion

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/063: The Real Effect of Banking Crises

- Giovanni Dell'ariccia, Raghuram Rajan and Enrica Detragiache
- 2005/062: Are Laws Needed for Public Management Reforms? An International Comparison

- Ian Lienert
- 2005/061: A Framework for the Surveillance of Derivatives Activities

- Eva Gutierrez
- 2005/060: The Impact of Terrorism on Financial Markets

- Oana Croitoru and R. Johnston
- 2005/059: Implementing the Stability and Growth Pact: Enforcement and Procedural Flexibility

- Roel Beetsma and Xavier Debrun
- 2005/058: The Implications of South African Economic Growth for the Rest of Africa

- Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis
- 2005/057: Government Debt: A Key Role in Financial Intermediation

- Michael Kumhof and Evan Tanner
- 2005/056: On Cyclicality in the Current and Financial Accounts: Evidence from Nine Industrial Countries

- Jens Clausen and Magda Kandil
- 2005/055: Trade Costs and Location of Foreign Firms in China

- International Monetary Fund
- 2005/054: How Should Subnational Government Borrowing Be Regulated? Some Cross-Country Empirical Evidence

- Alexander Plekhanov and Raju Singh
- 2005/053: Why Do Some Countries Manage to Extract Growth from Foreign Aid?

- Jean-François Ruhashyankiko
- 2005/052: A Latent Factor Model with Global, Country, and Industry Shocks for International Stock Returns

- Marco Del Negro and Robin Brooks
- 2005/051: The Accountability of Financial Sector Supervisors: Principles and Practice

- Michael Taylor, Marc Quintyn and Eva Hüpkes
- 2005/050: Establishing a Performance Management Framework for Government

- Jack Diamond
- 2005/049: Does Political Instability Lead to Higher Inflation? A Panel Data Analysis

- Ari Aisen and Francisco Veiga
- 2005/048: How Big Are the Benefits of Economic Diversification? Evidence from Earthquakes

- Rodney Ramcharan
- 2005/047: The Disconcerting Pyramids of Poverty and Inequality of Sub-Saharan Africa

- Paulo Lopes
- 2005/046: Data Consistency in IMF Publications: Country Staff Reports Versus International Financial Statistics

- John Cady and Anthony Pellechio
- 2005/045: On the Pattern of Currency Blocs in Africa

- Etienne Yehoue
- 2005/044: An Estimated Small Open Economy Model of the Financial Accelerator

- Alejandro Justiniano Espigares, Selim Elekdag and Ivan Tchakarov
- 2005/043: Rent Seeking

- Shankha Chakraborty and Era Dabla-Norris
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