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2002/230: Compiling and Using Export and Import Price Indices

Kimberly Zieschang and Jemma Dridi

2002/229: Common and Idiosyncratic Components in Real Output: Further International Evidence

Francisco Nadal De Simone

2002/228: Why Do Many Disinflations Fail? the Importance of Luck, Timing, and Political Institutions

A. Javier Hamann and Alessandro Prati

2002/227: Central American Tax Reform: Trends and Possibilities

Janet Stotsky and Asegedech WoldeMariam

2002/226: Monetary Union in West Africa: Who Might Gain, Who Might Lose, and Why?

Paul Masson, Xavier Debrun and Catherine Pattillo

2002/225: Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: Does "Benign Neglect" Make Sense?

Olivier Jeanne and Michael Bordo

2002/224: Explaining the Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Different Prices

Hamid Faruqee, Dalia Hakura and Ehsan Choudhri

2002/223: Keynes, Cocoa, and Copper: In Search of Commodity Currencies

Ratna Sahay, Luis Cespedes and Paul Cashin

2002/222: How Symmetric Are the Shocks and the Shock Adjustment Dynamics Between the Euro Area and Central and Eastern European Countries?

Michael Frenkel and Christiane Nickel

2002/221: Income from Bonds: Treatment in the System of National Accounts 1993

Lucie Laliberté

2002/220: Monetary Policy Credibility and the Unemployment-Inflation Tradeoff: Some Evidence From 17 Industrial Countries

Papa N'Diaye and Douglas Laxton

2002/219: Welfare Effects of Transparency in Foreign Exchange Markets: The Role of Hedging Opportunities

Burkhard Drees and Bernhard Eckwert

2002/218: Financial Contagion and Investor "Learning": An Empirical Investigation

Ritu Basu

2002/217: International Liquidity and the Role of the SDR in the International Monetary System

J. Polak and Peter Clark

2002/216: Population Aging and Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability in Austria

Leif Eskesen

2002/215: Implications of Migrationon Income and Welfare of Nationals

Kenichi Ueda

2002/214: WTO Financial Services Commitments: Determinants and Impacton Financial Stability

Nico Valckx

2002/213: The Persistence of Corruption and Slow Economic Growth

Paolo Mauro

2002/212: A Political-Economic Model of the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime

Yan Sun

2002/211: An Evaluation of Monetary Regime Options for Latin America

Andrew Berg, Paolo Mauro and Eduardo Borensztein

2002/210: A Balance Sheet Approach to Financial Crisis

Brad Setser, Nouriel Roubini, Christian Keller, Mark Allen and Christoph Rosenberg

2002/209: On National or Supranational Objectives: Improving the Effectiveness of Targeted Expenditure Programs

Ping Zhang, Eivind Tandberg and Ehtisham Ahmad

2002/208: The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Stimulating Economic Activity: A Review of the Literature

Selma Mahfouz, Richard Hemming and Michael Kell

2002/207: Modis: A Market-Oriented Deposit Insurance Scheme

Edda Zoli, Danyang Xie and Reza Vaez-Zadeh

2002/206: The Use of Credit Ceilings in the Presence of Indirect Monetary Instruments: An Analytical Framework

Plamen Yossifov

2002/205: An Analysis of Money Demand and Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Mangal Goswami and Oya Celasun

2002/204: Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Turkey

Marco Rossi and Daniel Leigh

2002/203: Oil Revenue Assignments: Country Experiences and Issues

Eric Mottu and Ehtisham Ahmad

2002/202: International Stock Returns and Market Integration: A Regional Perspective

Marco Del Negro and Robin Brooks

2002/201: Testing the Relationship Between Government Spending and Revenue: Evidence From GCC Countries

Qing Wang and Ugo Fasano-Filho

2002/200: An Empirical Analysis of China's Export Behavior

Sweta Saxena and Valerie Cerra

2002/199: The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers

C. Di Bella

2002/198: The Economics of Post Conflict Aid

James McHugh, Theodora Kosma and Dimitri Demekas

2002/197: Modern Hyper- and High Inflations

Stanley Fischer, Ratna Sahay and Carlos Végh Gramont

2002/196: The Challenge of Diversification in the Caribbean

A. Salehizadeh, Peter Berezin and Elcior Santana

2002/195: Modeling the Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS

Markus Haacker

2002/194: Growth-Financial Intermediation Nexus in China

Jahangir Aziz and Christoph Duenwald

2002/193: Bedfellows, Hostages, or Perfect Strangers? Global Capital Markets and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Crisis Lending

Curzio Giannini and Carlo Cottarelli

2002/192: Islamic Financial Institutions and Products in the Global Financial System: Key Issues in Risk Management and Challenges Ahead

International Monetary Fund

2002/191: Quantifying the Impact of Tradeon Wages: The Role of Nontraded Goods

Stephen Tokarick

2002/190: Tunisia’s Experience with Real Exchange Rate Targeting and the Transition to a Flexible Exchange Rate Regime

International Monetary Fund

2002/189: Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Integration and Geography in Economic Development

Arvind Subramanian, Francesco Trebbi and Dani Rodrik

2002/188: Dollarization, Monetary Policy, and the Pass-Through

Alain Ize and Eric Parrado

2002/187: Expenditure Issues and Governance in Central America

Ana Corbacho and Hamid Davoodi

2002/186: Consolidation and Market Structure in Emerging Market Banking Systems

R. Gaston Gelos and Jorge Roldos

2002/185: Money Demand in the Euro Area: Where Do We Stand (Today)?

Zenon Kontolemis

2002/184: The Inflation Targeting Framework in Norway

Jarkko Soikkeli

2002/183: How Does Conditional Aid (Not) Work?

Rodney Ramcharan

2002/182: User Payments for Basic Education in Low-Income Countries

Eva Jenkner and Arye Hillman

2002/181: Moral Hazard and International Crisis Lending: A Test

Giovanni Dell'ariccia, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Isabel Schnabel

2002/180: Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution

Thomas Rutherford, Svend Jensen and Tobias Rasmussen

2002/179: Statistical Legislation: Toward a More General Framework

Sarmad Khawaja and Thomas Morrison

2002/178: A New Financial System for Poverty Reduction and Growth

Biaggio Bossone and Abdourahmane Sarr

2002/177: Operational Aspects of Fiscal Policy in Oil-Producing Countries

Steven Barnett and Rolando Ossowski

2002/176: A Comparative Analysis of Government Social Spending Indicators and Their Correlation with Social Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Paulo Lopes

2002/175: The ECB and Euro-Area Enlargement

Helge Berger

2002/174: Transparency and International Investor Behavior

Shang-Jin Wei and R. Gaston Gelos

2002/173: Cotton Sector Strategies in West and Central Africa

Louis Goreux, Paul Masson, Dhaneshwar Ghura and Ousmane Badiane

2002/172: Poverty Dynamics in Rural India

Jahangir Aziz

2002/171: The Missing Globalization Puzzle

Rikhil Bhavnani, Natalia Tamirisa, Arvind Subramanian and David Coe

2002/170: Sovereign Credit Ratings Methodology: An Evaluation

Ashok Bhatia

2002/169: Transition and Regional Inequality in Russia: Reorganization or Procrastination?

Irina Dolinskaya and Irina Tytell

2002/168: Recentralization in China?

Ehtisham Ahmad, Li Keping, Raju Singh and Thomas Richardson

2002/167: Statistical Treatment of 'Build-Own-Operate-Transfer+L2306 Schemes

Brian Donaghue

2002/166: Exchange Rate Responses to Inflation in Bangladesh

Akhand Hossain

2002/165: An Empirical Investigation of Exchange Rate Pass-Through in South Africa

Ashok Bhundia

2002/164: On Sand and the Role of Grease in Labor Markets: How Does Germany Compare?

Jörg Decressin and Anja Decressin

2002/163: Crisis Prevention and Crisis Management: The Role of Regulatory Governance

Udaibir Das and Marc Quintyn

2002/162: Politics, Government Size, and Fiscal Adjustment in Industrial Countries

Anthony Annett

2002/161: The Role of Private Sector Annuities Markets in an Individual Accounts Reform of a Public Pension Plan

George Mackenzie

2002/160: How Competitive Is Irish Manufacturing?

Valerie Cerra and Jarkko Soikkeli

2002/159: Microfinance Institutions and Public Policy

International Monetary Fund

2002/158: The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its Rules of Origin: Generosity Undermined?

Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo and Devesh Roy

2002/157: Internal Models, Subordinated Debt, and Regulatory Capital Requirements for Bank Credit Risk

Paul Kupiec

2002/156: The Determinants of On-the-job Search: An Empirical Exploration

Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter

2002/155: The Evolution of Exchange Rate Regimes Since 1990: Evidence From De Facto Policies

Andrea Bubula and Inci Ötker-Robe

2002/154: Asian Flu or Wall Street Virus? Price and Volatility Spillovers of the Tech and Non-Tech Sectors in the United States and Asia

Jorge Chan-Lau and Iryna Ivaschenko

2002/153: Growth in Switzerland: Can Better Growth Be Sustained?

Anastassios Gagales

2002/152: Corporate Performance and Governance in Malaysia

Luc Leruth, Yougesh Khatri and J. Piesse

2002/151: Wage Moderation in France

Marcello Estevão and Nigar Nargis

2002/150: Are Mexican Business Cycles Asymmetrical?

Andre Santos

2002/149: Sovereign Defaults: The Role of Volatility

Bennett Sutton and Luis Catão

2002/148: Trade and Integration in the Caribbean

Philippe Egoume Bossogo and Chandima Mendis

2002/147: The Rise in Comovement Across National Stock Markets: Market Integration or Global Bubble?

Robin Brooks and Marco Del Negro

2002/146: Determinants of Commercial Bank Performance in Transition: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis

David Grigorian and Vlad Manole

2002/145: International Financial Integration and Economic Growth

Torsten Sloek, Hali Edison, Luca Ricci and Ross Levine

2002/144: Spreading Currency Crises: The Role of Economic Interdependence

Wolfram Berger and Helmut Wagner

2002/143: Wage Centralization, Union Bargaining, and Macroeconomic Performance

James McHugh

2002/142: Fiscal Consequences of Armed Conflict and Terrorism in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Shamit Chakravarti and Rina Bhattacharya

2002/141: Liability Dollarization and the Bank Balance Sheet Channel

David Cook and Woon Gyu Choi

2002/140: Issues in Domestic Petroleum Pricing in Oil-Producing Countries

Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Kevin Fletcher and Gabriela Inchauste

2002/139: Liberalization of Trade in Financial Services and Financial Sector Stability (Empirical Approach)

Alexei Kireyev

2002/138: Liberalization of Trade in Financial Services and Financial Sector Stability (Analytical Approach)

Alexei Kireyev

2002/137: Central Bank Financial Strength, Transparency, and Policy Credibility

Peter Stella

2002/136: Indonesia: Managing Decentralization

Ehtisham Ahmad and Ali Mansoor

2002/135: Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition

Eswar Prasad and Michael Keane

2002/134: Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium

Marcello Estevão

2002/133: Bankruptcy Procedures for Sovereigns: A History of Ideas, 1976-2001

Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Kenneth Rogoff

2002/132: The Speed of Adjustment and the Sequencing of Economic Reforms: Issues and Guidelines for Policymakers

Saleh Nsouli, Mounir Rached and Norbert Funke

2002/131: Will there Be New Emerging-Market Economies in Africa b+L2280y the Year 2020?

Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Ludvig Söderling