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2003/090: Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Argentina

Alfredo Cuevas

2003/089: Argentina: Macroeconomic Crisis and Household Vulnerability

Gabriela Inchauste, Ana Corbacho and Mercedes Garcia-Escribano

2003/088: Budget Support Versus Project Aid

Tito Cordella and Giovanni Dell'ariccia

2003/087: Pricing Policies and Inflation Inertia

Michael Kumhof, Luis Cespedes and Eric Parrado

2003/086: International Financial Integration

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2003/085: Regional Impact of Cote D'Ivoire'S Sociopolitical Crisis: An Assessment

Dorothy Engmann, Ousmane Dore and Benoít Anne

2003/084: Unanticipated Shocks and Systemic Influences: The Impact of Contagion in Global Equity Markets in 1998

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

2003/083: Gender-Responsive Government Budgeting

Feridoun Sarraf

2003/082: The ECB'S Money Pillar: An Assessment

Albert Jaeger

2003/081: Trade, Finance, Specialization, and Synchronization

Jean Imbs

2003/080: Fatal Attraction: A New Measure of Contagion

Tamim Bayoumi, Manmohan Kumar, Giorgio Fazio and Ronald MacDonald

2003/079: Assessing Fiscal Sustainability Under Uncertainity

Theodore Barnhill and George Kopits

2003/078: Do Fixed Exchange Rates Induce More Fiscal Discipline?

Yan Sun

2003/077: Deflation in Hong Kong SAR

Philip Schellekens

2003/076: Re-Establishing Credible Nominal Anchors After a Financial Crisis: A Review of Recent Experience

Alessandro Zanello, Mark Stone, Christopher Jarvis and Andrew Berg

2003/075: Job-Specific Investment and the Cost of Dismissal Restrictions: The Case of Portugal

H. Takizawa

2003/074: The Link Between Adherence to International Standards of Good Practice, Foreign Exchange Spreads, and Ratings

Andrew Tiffin, Christian Mulder and Charalambos Christofides

2003/073: On the Heterogeneity Bias of Pooled Estimators in Stationary VAR Specifications

Alessandro Rebucci

2003/072: Macroeconomic Performance and Poverty Reduction

Anne Epaulard

2003/071: The Impact of Monetary Policyon the Bilateral Exchange Rate: Chile Versus the United States

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

2003/070: Financial Reform: What Shakes it? What Shapes it?

Ashoka Mody and Abdul Abiad

2003/069: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Opportunities and Challenges

Saleh Nsouli and Norbert Funke

2003/068: PPP Strikes Back: Aggregation and the Real Exchange Rate

Haroon Mumtaz, Jean Imbs, Morten Ravn and Helene Rey

2003/067: The Dynamics of Real Interest Rates, Real Exchange Rates and the Balance of Payments in China: 1980-2002

Zhongxia Jin

2003/066: The GCC Monetary Union: Some Considerations for the Exchange Rate Regime

Behrouz Guerami, S. Erbas and George Abed

2003/065: Fiscal Deficits and Inflation

Luis Catão and Marco Terrones

2003/064: How to Fight Deflation in a Liquidity Trap: Committing to Being Irresponsible

Gauti Eggertsson

2003/063: Interest Rates, Credit Rationing, and Investment in Developing Countries

Mwanza Nkusu

2003/062: Factors Underlying the Definition of Broad Money: An Examination of Recent U.S. Monetary Statistics and Practices of Other Countries

Ewe-Ghee Lim and Subramanian Sriram

2003/061: The Impact of External Indebtednesson Poverty in Low-Income Countries

Kadima Kalonji, Boileau Loko, Raj Nallari and Montfort Mlachila

2003/060: Exchange Rate Policy and Debt Crises in Emerging Economies

Peter Montiel and Samir Jahjah

2003/059: Determinants of the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes in Six Central American Countries: An Empirical Analysis

Michael Papaioannou

2003/058: Availability of Financial Soundness Indicators

Graham Slack

2003/057: Do Elections Always Motivate Incumbents? Experimentation vs. Career Concerns

Ben Lockwood and Eric Le Borgne

2003/056: Current Issues in the Design and Conduct of Monetary Policy

Mohsin Khan

2003/055: Firm-Level Evidenceon International Stock Market Comovement

Robin Brooks and Marco Del Negro

2003/054: Trade Costs, Market Integration, and Macroeconomic Volatility

Kanda Naknoi and Allan Brunner

2003/053: Inflation Performance and Constitutional Central Bank Independence: Evidence From Latin America and the Caribbean

Eva Gutierrez

2003/052: Country and Industry Dynamics in Stock Returns

Luis Catão and Allan Timmermann

2003/051: Does Insider Trading Raise Market Volatility?

Shang-Jin Wei and Julan Du

2003/050: Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility

Marco Terrones, Eswar Prasad and Ayhan Kose

2003/049: Would "Cold Turkey" Work in Turkey?

R. Gaston Gelos, Alessandro Prati and Oya Celasun

2003/048: Did Output Recover From the Asian Crisis?

Valerie Cerra and Sweta Saxena

2003/047: Market Volatility As a Financial Soundness Indicator: An Application to Israel

Armando Méndez Morales and Liliana Schumacher

2003/046: Are they All in the Same Boat? the 2000-2001 Growth Slowdown and the G-7 Business Cycle Linkages

Thomas Helbling and Tamim Bayoumi

2003/045: Primary Dealers in Government Securities: Policy Issues and Selected Countries Experience

George Iden and Marco Arnone

2003/044: Estimation of the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate for South Africa

Ronald MacDonald and Luca Ricci

2003/043: Poverty and Social Impact Analysis: Linking Macroeconomic Policies to Poverty Outcomes: Summary of Early Experiences

Caroline Kende-Robb

2003/042: Taxation and Pricing of Petroleum Products in Developing Countries: A Framework for Analysis with Application to Nigeria

Shahabuddin Hossain

2003/041: Exchange Rates in the Periphery and International Adjustment Under the Gold Standard

Luis Catão and Solomos Solomou

2003/040: Foreign Aid and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence From Global Food Aid

Erwin Tiongson, Benedict Clements and Sanjeev Gupta

2003/039: Monetary Policy Rules for Financially Vulnerable Economies

Eduardo Morón and Diego Winkelried

2003/038: Do IMF-Supported Programs Help Make Fiscal Adjustment More Durable?

Soojin Moon and Ales Bulir

2003/037: The Long-Run Effects of Tradeon Income and Income Growth

Allan Brunner

2003/036: Fiscal Adjustment in Transition Countries: Evidence From the 1990's

Catriona Purfield

2003/035: A Currency Union for the Caribbean

Rupert Worrell

2003/034: Short-Run Pain, Long-Run Gain: The Effects of Financial Liberalization

Sergio Schmukler and Graciela Kaminsky

2003/033: Performance Budgeting: Managing the Reform Process

Jack Diamond

2003/032: Early Warning Systems: A Survey and a Regime-Switching Approach

Abdul Abiad

2003/031: Some Simulation Properties of the Major Euro Area Economies in Multimod

Douglas Laxton and Benjamin Hunt

2003/030: Trade, Growth, and Poverty: A Selective Survey

Andrew Berg and Anne Krueger

2003/029: Economic Implications of China's Demographics in the 21st Century

Kevin Cheng

2003/028: The Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate of the Malagasy Franc: Estimation and Assessment

John Cady

2003/027: How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?

Ayhan Kose, Eswar Prasad and Marco Terrones

2003/026: Exchange Rate Regime Considerations in an Oil Economy: The Case of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Oya Celasun

2003/025: Some Implications for Monetary Policy of Uncertain Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Benjamin Hunt and Peter Isard

2003/024: Financial Infrastructure, Group Interests, and Capital Accumulation: Theory, Evidence, and Policy

Biaggio Bossone, Sandeep Mahajan and Farah Zahir

2003/023: An Analysis of the Underground Economy and its Macroeconomic Consequences

Era Dabla-Norris and Andrew Feltenstein

2003/022: Productivity Trends in India's Manufacturing Sectors in the Last Two Decades

Bulent Unel

2003/021: Medium-Term Exchange Rate Forecasting: What Can We Expect?

Guy Meredith

2003/020: Portfolio Flows Into India: Do Domestic Fundamentals Matter?

Poonam Gupta and James Gordon

2003/019: Fiscal Sustainability and Resource Mobilization in the Dominican Republic

Oscar Melhado Orellana

2003/018: Anticipating Arrears to the IMF Early Warning Systems

Chikako Oka

2003/017: What Happens After Supervisory Intervention? Considering Bank Closure Options

Mats Josefsson and Michael Andrews

2003/016: Political Economy of Oil-Revenue Sharing in a Developing Country: Illustrations from Nigeria

Ehtisham Ahmad and Raju Singh

2003/015: Information Technology and Productivity Growth in Asia

Il Lee and Yougesh Khatri

2003/014: Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending

International Monetary Fund

2003/013: Toward a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Lessons From Corporate Bankruptcy Practice Around the World

Patrick Bolton

2003/012: Inflation Targeting Lite

Mark Stone

2003/011: Dollarization of Liabilities: Beyond the Usual Suspects

Adolfo Barajas and Armando Méndez Morales

2003/010: FDI to Africa: The Role of Price Stability and Currency Instability

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

2003/009: Inflation Targeting Regimes

Alina Carare and Mark Stone

2003/008: What Determines the Implementation of IMF-Supported Programs?

Alex Mourmouras, Anna Ivanova, George Anayiotos and Wolfgang Mayer

2003/007: Currency Demand, the Underground Economy, and, Tax Evasion—The Case of Guyana

Ebrima Faal

2003/006: Small African Stock Markets—The Case of the Lusaka Stock Exchange

Heloisa Marone

2003/005: Optimal Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Habit Formation and Nominal Rigidities

Yongseung Jung and Woon Gyu Choi

2003/004: What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence From German Micro Data

Eswar Prasad

2003/003: How Much Leverage is too Much, or Does Corporate Risk Determine the Severity of a Recession?

Iryna Ivaschenko

2003/002: A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa

Ian Lienert

2003/001: Testing the Informational Efficiency of OTC Optionson Emerging Market Currencies

Jorge Chan-Lau and Armando Méndez Morales

2002/240: Performance Budgeting—Is Accrual Accounting Required?

Jack Diamond

2002/239: Macroeconomic News and Stock Returns in the United States and Germany

Norbert Funke and Akimi Matsuda

2002/238: Stock Market Developments and Private Consumer Spending in Emerging Markets

Norbert Funke

2002/237: Firm Investment, Corporate Finance, and Taxation

Geremia Palomba

2002/236: Tax Revenue Forecasts in IMF-Supported Programs

Mikhail Golosov and John King

2002/235: Imperfect Competition and the Design of VAT Regimes: The Case of Energy Trade Between Russia and Ukraine

Clinton Shiells

2002/234: “Original Sin,” Balance Sheet Crises, and the Roles of International Lending

Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Olivier Jeanne

2002/233: Market Predictability of ECB Policy Decisions: A Comparative Examination

Kevin Ross

2002/232: Measuring Liquidity in Financial Markets

Tonny Lybek and Abdourahmane Sarr

2002/231: Leading Indicators of Growth and Inflation in Turkey

Daniel Leigh and Marco Rossi