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2004/080: Political Instability and Growth: The Central African Republic

Dhaneshwar Ghura and Benoît Mercereau

2004/079: Economic Geography and Wages: The Case of Indonesia

Mary Amiti and Lisa Cameron

2004/078: Empirical Modeling of Contagion: A Review of Methodologies

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

2004/077: From “Hindu Growth” to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition

Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subramanian

2004/076: Can China Grow Faster? A Diagnosis of the Fragmentation of Its Domestic Capital Market

Shang-Jin Wei and Genevieve Boyreau-Debray

2004/075: The IMF and the force of History: Ten Events and Ten Ideas that Have Shaped the Institution

James Boughton

2004/074: The Elusive Gains from International Financial Integration

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Olivier Jeanne

2004/073: Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the Nineties: Are Any Fit to Survive?

Yin-Wong Cheung, Antonio Garcia Pascual and Menzie Chinn

2004/072: Are Uniform Tariffs Optimal?

Mary Amiti

2004/071: Emerging Strains in GCC Labor Markets

Ugo Fasano-Filho and Rishi Goyal

2004/070: Credit Rationing in Emerging Economies' Access to Global Capital Markets

Edda Zoli

2004/069: Estimation of Economic Growth in France Using Business Survey Data

Alain Kabundi

2004/068: A Bayesian Approach to Model Uncertainty

Charalambos Tsangarides

2004/067: New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Christophe Kamps

2004/066: Prudential Responses to De Facto Dollarization

Alain Ize and Andrew Powell

2004/065: The Effects of Exchange Rate Change on the Trade Balance in Croatia

Tihomir Stucka

2004/064: Overview of the Indian Corporate Sector: 1989-2002

Petia Topalova

2004/063: Balance Sheets, Exchange Rate Policy, and Welfare

Selim Elekdag and Ivan Tchakarov

2004/062: Fiscal Indulgence in Central Europe: Loss of the External Anchor

George Kopits, Helge Berger and Istvan P Szekely

2004/061: Derivative Market Competition: OTC Versus Organized Derivative Exchanges

Jens Nystedt

2004/060: Economic Integration, Sectoral Diversification, and Exchange Rate Policy in a Developing Economy

Gabriel Srour

2004/059: How Has Nafta Affected the Mexican Economy? Review and Evidence

Ayhan Kose, Christopher Towe and Guy Meredith

2004/058: Does Sdds Subscription Reduce Borrowing Costs for Emerging Market Economies

John Cady

2004/057: Measuring a Roller Coaster: Evidenceon the Finnish Output Gap

Andreas Billmeier

2004/056: Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

Dalia Hakura

2004/055: Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Went Wrong?

Françoise Le Gall, Roland Daumont and François Leroux

2004/054: Boom-Bust Phases in Asset Prices and Fiscal Policy Behavior

Ludger Schuknecht and Albert Jaeger

2004/053: Sovereign Debt Defaults and Financing Needs

Miguel Messmacher and Mark Kruger

2004/052: Assessing Early Warning Systems: How Have they Worked in Practice?

Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein and Catherine Pattillo

2004/051: Missing Link: Volatility and the Debt Intolerance Paradox

Luis Catão and Sandeep Kapur

2004/050: The Role of Stock Markets in Current Account Dynamics: a Time-Series Approach

Benoît Mercereau

2004/049: Aid and the Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries: Informed Diagnoses for Prudent Prognoses

Mwanza Nkusu

2004/048: Nonresident Deposits in India: In Search of Return?

Poonam Gupta and James Gordon

2004/047: When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence

Aart Kraay

2004/046: Domestic Debt Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jakob Christensen

2004/045: A Multivariate Filter for Measuring Potential Output and the NAIRU Application to the Czech Republic

Jaromir Benes and Papa N'Diaye

2004/044: Debt Crises and the Development of International Capital Markets

Amadou Sy and Andrea Pescatori

2004/043: India in the 1980's and 1990's: A Triumph of Reforms

Arvind Panagariya

2004/042: Public Expenditure Management in Francophone Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis

Yaya Moussa

2004/041: Forecasting Commodity Prices: Futures Versus Judgment

Aasim Husain and Tanya Bowman

2004/040: And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow": Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries

Philippe Beaugrand

2004/039: Autocorrelation-Corrected Standard Errors in Panel Probits: An Application to Currency Crisis Prediction

Andrew Berg and Rebecca Coke

2004/038: The Political Economy of Conditional and Unconditional Foreign Assistance: Grants vs. Loan Rollovers

Wolfgang Mayer and Alex Mourmouras

2004/037: Competitiveness in Bulgaria: An Assessment of the Real Effective Exchange Rate

Piritta Sorsa and Dimitar Chobanov

2004/036: China: International Trade and WTO Accession

Nicolas Blancher and Thomas Rumbaugh

2004/035: Liberalized Markets Have More Stable Exchange Rates: Short-Run Evidence From Four Transition Countries

Ales Bulir

2004/034: The Determinants of International Portfolio Holdings and Home Bias

Shujing Li, Hamid Faruqee and Isabel Yan

2004/033: An Option-Based Approach to Bank Vulnerabilities in Emerging Markets

Arnaud Jobert, Janet Kong and Jorge Chan-Lau

2004/032: The Decentralization Dilemma in India

Catriona Purfield

2004/031: Imperfect Capital Mobility in an Open Economy Model of Capital Accumulation

Vladimir Klyuev

2004/030: Fiscal Sustainability in Heavily Indebted Countries Dependenton Nonrenewable Resources: The Case of Gabon

Joseph Ntamatungiro

2004/029: Inflation Dynamics in the Dominican Republic

Oral Williams and Olumuyiwa Adedeji

2004/028: Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: The Case of India

Petia Topalova

2004/027: Equity Prices, Credit Default Swaps, and Bond Spreads in Emerging Markets

Jorge Chan-Lau and Yoon Sook Kim

2004/026: How Much Do Trading Partners Matter for Economic Growth?

Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis

2004/025: Rational Speculation, Financial Crises, and Optimal Policy Responses

Jay Surti

2004/024: Monetary Magic? How the Fed Improved the Flexibility of the U.S. Economy

Tamim Bayoumi and Silvia Sgherri

2004/023: Trade Patterns Among Industrial Countries: Their Relationship to Technology Differences and Capital Mobility

Mika Saito

2004/022: Armington Elasticities in Intermediate Inputs Trade: A Problem in Using Multilateral Trade Data

Mika Saito

2004/021: Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Rules in an Open Economy

Eric Parrado

2004/020: Does Spousal Labor Smooth Fluctuations in Husbands’ Earnings? The Role of Liquidity Constraints

Mercedes Garcia-Escribano

2004/019: Six Puzzles in Electronic Money and Banking

Saleh Nsouli and Connel Fullenkamp

2004/018: China: Sources of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Tao Wang

2004/017: Interest Rate Volatility and Risk in Indian Banking

International Monetary Fund

2004/016: Foreign Exchange Market Volatility in Eu Accession Countries in the Run-Up to Euro Adoption: Weathering Uncharted Waters

Istvan P Szekely and Ádám Kóbor

2004/015: What Are the Channels Through Which External Debt Affects Growth?

Hélène Poirson, Luca Ricci and Catherine Pattillo

2004/014: Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area: The Role of Asymmetric Pricing Behavior

Hamid Faruqee

2004/013: How Private Creditors Fared in Emerging Debt Markets, 1970-2000

Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Beatrice Weder and Christoph Klingen

2004/012: The Late 1990's Financial Crisis in Ecuador: Institutional Weaknesses, Fiscal Rigidities, and Financial Dollarization At Work

Luis Jácome

2004/011: Banking Competition, Risk, and Regulation

Alexander Tieman and Wilko Bolt

2004/010: Singapore's Unique Monetary Policy: How Does it Work?

Eric Parrado

2004/009: Timing of International Bailouts

Se-Jik Kim

2004/008: Fiscal Surveillance in a Petro Zone: The Case of the CEMAC

Johannes Wiegand

2004/007: Fiscal Sustainability: The Case of Eritrea

Ayumu Yamauchi

2004/006: A Puzzle of Microstructure Market Maker Models

Rafael Romeu

2004/005: International Dividend Repatriations

Alexander Lehmann and Ashoka Mody

2004/004: Foreign Exchange Market Organization in Selected Developing and Transition Economies: Evidence from a Survey

Jorge Canales Kriljenko

2004/003: Do Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Controls Vary by their Type? Evidence From Malaysia

Natalia Tamirisa

2004/002: Exchange Rates in Central Europe: A Blessing or a Curse?

Louis Kuijs and Alain Borghijs

2004/001: The Gains From International Monetary Cooperation Revisited

Ivan Tchakarov

2003/252: Sources of Nominal Exchange Rate Fluctuations in South Africa

Jan Gottschalk and Ashok Bhundia

2003/251: Characterizing Global Investors' Risk Appetite for Emerging Market Debt During Financial Crises

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

2003/250: Determinants of Deflation in Hong Kong SAR

Papa N'Diaye

2003/249: External Debt, Public Investment, and Growth in Low-Income Countries

Toan Nguyen, Benedict Clements and Rina Bhattacharya

2003/248: Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence From the United States

Stephen Yeaple and Wolfgang Keller

2003/247: Budget System Reform in Transitional Economies: The Case of the Former Yugoslav Republics

Jack Diamond and Duncan Last

2003/246: Volatility and Comovement in a Globalized World Economy: An Empirical Exploration

Ayhan Kose, Marco Terrones and Eswar Prasad

2003/245: China'S Integration Into the World Economy: Implications for Developing Countries

Yongzheng Yang

2003/244: The Effects of Fiscal Policieson the Economic Development of Women in the Middle East and North Africa

Nicole Laframboise and Tea Trumbic

2003/243: Evolution and Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes

Aasim Husain, Ashoka Mody, Nienke Oomes, Robin Brooks and Kenneth Rogoff

2003/242: Are Credit Default Swaps Spreads High in Emerging Markets: An Alternative Methodology for Proxying Recovery Value

Manmohan Singh

2003/241: IMF and the Baltics: A Decade of Cooperation

Adalbert Knöbl and Richard Haas

2003/240: Patterns of Shocks and Regional Monetary Cooperation in South Asia

Nephil Maskay

2003/239: Trade Liberalization Strategies: What Could South Eastern Europe Learn From Cefta and Bfta?

Antonis Adam, James McHugh and Theodora Kosma

2003/238: U.S. Investors' Emerging Market Equity Portfolios: A Security-Level Analysis

Francis Warnock and Hali Edison

2003/237: Growth, Governance, and Fiscal Policy Transmission Channels in Low-Income Countries

Naoko Kojo, Arye Hillman and Emanuele Baldacci

2003/236: Cross-Border Listings, Capital Controls, and U.S. Equity Flows to Emerging Markets

Hali Edison and Francis Warnock

2003/235: From the Front Lines At Seoul Bank: Restructuring and Reprivatization

Chungwon Kang

2003/234: Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?

Marcello Estevão

2003/233: Financial Globalization, Portfolio Diversification, and the Pattern of International Trade

Miklós Koren