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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

2005/042: “Rules of Thumb” for Sovereign Debt Crises

Nouriel Roubini and Paolo Manasse

2005/041: A Monetary Policy Rule for Jamaica

Yan Sun

2005/040: The Composition of Capital Flows: Is South Africa Different?

Norbert Funke, Faisal Ahmed and Rabah Arezki

2005/039: Exits from Heavily Managed Exchange Rate Regimes

Enrica Detragiache, Eisuke Okada and Ashoka Mody

2005/038: Did the Basel Accord Cause a Credit Slowdown in Latin America?

Thomas Cosimano, Ralph Chami and Adolfo Barajas

2005/037: Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk in Chile: Markets and Instruments

Jorge Chan-Lau

2005/036: Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa: Past Performance and the Way Forward

Yongzheng Yang and Sanjeev Gupta

2005/035: Tanzania’s Growth Process and Success in Reducing Poverty

Volker Treichel

2005/034: Were Bid-Ask Spreads in the Foreign Exchange Market Excessive During the Asian Crisis?

Torbjorn Becker and Amadou Sy

2005/033: Monetary and Exchange Rate Dynamics During Disinflation: An Empirical Analysis

Lei Zhang, A. Javier Hamann and Andres Arias Leiva

2005/032: A Simultaneous Equations Model for World Crude Oil and Natural Gas Markets

Noureddine Krichene

2005/031: The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective

Douglas Irwin

2005/030: Issues in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China

Era Dabla-Norris

2005/029: Eurosclerosis or Financial Collapse: Why Did Swedish Incomes Fall Behind?

Valerie Cerra and Sweta Saxena

2005/028: Inequality, Poverty, and Growth: Cross-Country Evidence

Garbis Iradian

2005/027: Exchange Rates in the New EU Accession Countries: What Have We Learned from the Forerunners?

Katerina Smidkova and Ales Bulir

2005/026: Stabilization, Debt, and Fiscal Policy in the Caribbean

Ratna Sahay

2005/025: Monetary Policy and Corporate Behavior in India

International Monetary Fund

2005/024: Revenue Forecasting—How is it done? Results from a Survey of Low-Income Countries

Annette Kyobe and Stephan Danninger

2005/023: A (New) Country Insurance Facility

Tito Cordella and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

2005/022: Increasing Public Sector Revenue in the Philippines: Equity and Efficiency Considerations

Kevin Fletcher

2005/021: Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture: A Gravity Approach

Claudio Paiva

2005/020: Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality: Evidence From India

Prachi Mishra and Utsav Kumar

2005/019: How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship Between Growth and Volatility?

Eswar Prasad, Marco Terrones and Ayhan Kose

2005/018: Growth Empirics Under Model Uncertainty: Is Africa Different?

Charalambos Tsangarides

2005/017: Competition and Efficiency in Banking: Behavioral Evidence from Ghana

Johan Mathisen and Thierry Buchs

2005/016: The Russian Flat Tax Reform

Michael Keen, Alexander Klemm and Anna Ivanova

2005/015: Capitalizing Central Banks: A Net Worth Approach

Alain Ize

2005/014: Revenue Forecasts as Performance Targets

Stephan Danninger

2005/013: Currency Crises in Developed and Emerging Market Economies: A Comparative Empirical Treatment

Thomson Fontaine

2005/012: Trade and Growth in the Presence of Distortions

Stephen Tokarick and James Cassing

2005/011: Growth, Expansion of Markets, and Income Elasticities in World Trade

Yi Wu

2005/010: State-Owned Banks, Stability, Privatization, and Growth: Practical Policy Decisions in a World Without Empirical Proof

Michael Andrews

2005/009: Asset Mispricing Due to Cognitive Dissonance

Bernhard Eckwert and Burkhard Drees

2005/008: Implicit Transfers in IMF Lending, 1973–2003

Priyadarshani Joshi and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

2005/007: Asymmetric Effects of Government Spending: Does the Level of Real Interest Rates Matter?

Woon Gyu Choi and Michael Devereux

2005/006: Stock Market Liquidity and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Japan

Woon Gyu Choi and David Cook

2005/005: Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility: The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage

International Monetary Fund

2005/004: The International Effects of Government Spending Composition

Giovanni Ganelli

2005/003: Financial Globalization and Exchange Rates

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane

2005/002: The Political Economy of Revenue-Forecasting Experience From Low-Income Countries

Stephan Danninger, Annette Kyobe and M. Cangiano

2005/001: Remoteness and Real Exchange Rate Volatility

International Monetary Fund

2004/238: Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship

Mwanza Nkusu and Selin Sayek

2004/237: Integrating a Unified Revenue Administration for Tax and Social Contribution Collections: Experiences of Central and Eastern European Countries

International Monetary Fund

2004/236: Institutions and the External Capital Structure of Countries

Paolo Mauro and Andre Faria

2004/235: Managing Confidence in Emerging Market Bank Runs

Ashoka Mody and Se-Jik Kim

2004/234: Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations: How Well Does the RBC Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data?

Jordi Galí and Pau Rabanal

2004/233: The Relationship Between Macroeconomic Statistics Guidelines and Accounting Standards

Lucie Laliberté

2004/232: Macroeconomic Implications of the Transition to Inflation Targeting and Capital Account Liberalization in Romania

Nikolay Gueorguiev and Pelin Berkmen

2004/231: Institutional Quality and International Trade

Andrei Levchenko

2004/230: Can the Private Annuity Market Provide Secure Retirement Income?

Allison Schrager and George Mackenzie

2004/229: Exchange Rate, Money, and Wages: What is Driving Prices in Armenia?

Armine Khachatryan, David Grigorian and Grigor Sargsyan

2004/228: A Common Currency for Belarus and Russia?

Vassili Prokopenko, Etibar Jafarov and Anne Gulde

2004/227: Comesa and Sadc: Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration

Padamja Khandelwal

2004/226: Central Bank Governance: A Survey of Boards and Management

JoAnne Morris and Tonny Lybek

2004/225: Trade Finance and Trade Flows: Panel Data Evidence From 10 Crises

Márcio Ronci

2004/224: Macroeconomic Implications of Natural Disasters in the Caribbean

Tobias Rasmussen

2004/223: Inflation and Monetary Pass-Through in Guinea

Rodolphe Blavy

2004/222: Currency Bloc Formation as a Dynamic Process Based on Trade Network Externalities

Etienne Yehoue

2004/221: Sovereign Borrowing by Developing Countries: What Determines Market Access?

R. Gaston Gelos, Guido Sandleris and Ratna Sahay

2004/220: On the Design and Effectiveness of Targeted Expenditure Programs

Ehtisham Ahmad and Leonardo Martinez

2004/219: A Model of the Imf As a Coinsurance Arrangement

Ralph Chami, Ilhyock Shim and Sunil Sharma

2004/218: Capital Inflows, Sterilization, and Commercial Bank Speculation: The Case of the Czech Republic in the Mid-1990's

Jakob Christensen

2004/217: Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries: Implications for Achieving the MDGs

Emanuele Baldacci, Larry Cui, Benedict Clements and Sanjeev Gupta

2004/216: Exchange Rate Policy and the Management of Official and Private Capital Flows in Africa

Catherine Pattillo, Stephen O'Connell, Christopher Adam and Edward Buffie

2004/215: What Determines Long-Run Macroeconomic Stability? Democratic Institutions

Arvind Subramanian and Shanker Satyanath

2004/214: The Distributional Bias of Public Education: Causes and Consequences

Mark Gradstein and Era Dabla-Norris

2004/213: The Greenbook and U.S. Monetary Policy

Robert Tchaidze

2004/212: Are there Negative Returns to Aid? a Comment

Mwanza Nkusu

2004/211: Interest Rate Pass-Through in Romania and Other Central European Economies

Alexander Tieman

2004/210: Exchange Rate Policy and Sovereign Bond Spreads in Developing Countries

Zhanwei Yue and Samir Jahjah

2004/209: In the Pipeline: Georgia's Oil and Gas Transit Revenues

Jonathan Dunn, Andreas Billmeier and Bert van Selm

2004/208: Measuring Disinflation Credibility in Emerging Markets: A Bayesian Approach with An Application to Turkey

Alessandro Rebucci and Marco Rossi

2004/207: Evolution of the Relative Price of Goods and Services in a Neoclassical Model of Capital Accumulation

Vladimir Klyuev

2004/206: Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Trade Agreements: The Market Size Effect Revisited

Florence Jaumotte

2004/205: Wage Compression, Employment Restrictions and Unemployment: The Case of Mauritius

International Monetary Fund

2004/204: Does Compliance with Basel Core Principles Bring Any Measurable Benefits?

Richard Podpiera

2004/203: Can the IMF's Medium-Term Growth Projections Be Improved?

Juan Zalduendo and Catia Batista

2004/202: The Cyclical and Long-Term Behavior of Government Expenditures in Developing Countries

Gabriela Inchauste, Bernardin Akitoby, Benedict Clements and Sanjeev Gupta

2004/201: Financial Sector Development in the Middle East and North Africa

International Monetary Fund

2004/200: Why is Productivity Growth in the Euro Area so Sluggish?

Marcello Estevão

2004/199: Managerial Incentives and Financial Contagion

Sujit Chakravorti and Subir Lall

2004/198: Growth and Convergence in WAEMU Countries

Abdoul Wane