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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

2002/130: Current Account and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in the G-7 Countries

Menzie Chinn and Jaewoo Lee

2002/129: Treasury Reform in Kazakhstan: Lessons for Other Countries

Eivind Tandberg and S. Ramamurthy

2002/128: Intergovernmental Grants Systems and Management: Applications of a General Framework to Indonesia

Bob Searle, Jun Ma, Stefano Piperno and Ehtisham Ahmad

2002/127: Lithuania: History and Future of the Currency Board Arrangement

International Monetary Fund

2002/126: Seductions of an Underdevelopment Trap: Systemic Impediments to Agricultural Reform in Russia

Dmitry Gershenson and Maria Amelina

2002/125: Internal Models-Based Capital Regulation and Bank Risk-Taking Incentives

Paul Kupiec

2002/124: Some International Issues in Commodity Taxation

Michael Keen

2002/123: Migration and Human Capital Formation: Theory and Evidence From the U.S. High School Movement

Rodney Ramcharan

2002/122: Collateral in Loan Classification and Provisioning

In Song

2002/121: Labor Market Pooling

Guido de Blasio and Sabrina Di Addario

2002/120: Capital Account Liberalization and Economic Performance: Survey and Synthesis

Torsten Sloek, Michael Klein, Luca Ricci and Hali Edison

2002/119: Demutualization of Securities Exchanges: A Regulatory Perspective

Jennifer Elliott

2002/118: Is Growth Enough? Macroeconomic Policy and Poverty Reduction

Carlos Leite, Charalambos Tsangarides and Dhaneshwar Ghura

2002/117: It’s Not What You Make, It’s How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries

Tamim Bayoumi and Markus Haacker

2002/116: Assessing Monthly Progress towards Annual Fiscal Revenue Targets

Daniel Kanda

2002/115: Limits of Conditionality in Poverty Reduction Programs

Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Tito Cordella

2002/114: Poverty in a Wealthy Economy: The Case of Nigeria

Sudharshan Canagarajah and Saji Thomas

2002/113: In Finance, Size Matters

Jong-Kun Lee and Biaggio Bossone

2002/112: Aid and Fiscal Management

Timothy Lane and Ales Bulir

2002/111: Forecasting Inflation in Indonesia

Uma Ramakrishnan and Athanasios Vamvakidis

2002/110: Suggestions for Alternative Measures of Budget Balance for South Africa

Davina Jacobs

2002/109: Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy in Croatia

Leo Bonato and Andreas Billmeier

2002/108: Experience with Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU

Paul Masson and Ousmane Dore

2002/107: On the Origins of the Fleming-Mundell Model

James Boughton

2002/106: The Potential Role for Securitizing Public Sector Revenue Flows: An Application to the Philippines

Nigel Chalk

2002/105: The Micro Basis of Budget System Reform: The Case of Transitional Economies

Jack Diamond

2002/104: Long-Run Determinants of Exchange Rate Regimes: A Simple Sensitivity Analysis

Paolo Mauro and Grace Juhn

2002/103: The Challenge of Fiscal Decentralization in Transition Countries

Era Dabla-Norris and Paul Wade

2002/102: Establishing Initial Conditions in Support of Inflation Targeting

Mark Zelmer, Andrea Schaechter, Mark Stone and Alina Carare

2002/101: Structural Balances and All That: Which Indicators to Use in Assessing Fiscal Policy

Nigel Chalk

2002/100: Financial Liberalization and Real Investment: Evidence From Turkish Firms

Cemile Sancak

2002/099: Calibrating Your Intuition: Capital Allocation for Market and Credit Risk

Paul Kupiec

2002/098: Extreme Contagion in Equity Markets

James Yao, Jorge Chan-Lau and Donald Mathieson

2002/097: An Interim Assessment of Ukrainian Output Developments, 2000-01

J. E. J. De Vrijer, Katrin Elborgh-Woytek, Julian Berengaut, Bogdan Lissovolik and Mark Lewis

2002/096: The Estonian Currency Board: Its Introduction and Role in the Early Success of Estonia's Transition to a Market Economy

Andres Sutt, Basil Zavoiceo and Adalbert Knöbl

2002/095: Why Is It So Hard to Finance Budget Deficits? Problems of a Developing Country

Shigeru Iwata and Andrew Feltenstein

2002/094: The Role of Internal Audit in Government Financial Management: An International Perspective

Jack Diamond

2002/093: Escaping the Curse of Oil? The Case of Gabon

Ludvig Söderling

2002/092: Macroeconomic Adjustment in a Highly Dollarized Economy: The Case of Cambodia

International Monetary Fund

2002/091: Yield Spread as a Leading Indicator of Real Economic Activity: An Empirical Exercise on the Indian Economy

Rajan Goyal and K. Kanagasabapathy

2002/090: Moreon the Effectiveness of Public Spendingon Health Care and Education: A Covariance Structure Model

International Monetary Fund