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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

2002/089: Export Orientation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Catherine Pattillo and Taye Mengistae

2002/088: Caribbean offshore Financial Centers: Past, Present, and Possibilities for the Future

Esther Suss, Oral Williams and Chandima Mendis

2002/087: Fiscal Policy and Economic Activity During Recessions in Advanced Economies

Axel Schimmelpfennig, Selma Mahfouz and Richard Hemming

2002/086: Determinants and Repercussions of the Composition of Capital Inflows

Mark Carlson and Leonardo Hernández

2002/085: When is Economic Growth Pro-Poor? Experiences in Malaysia and Pakistan

Mahmood Khan

2002/084: Money, Meat, and Inflation: Using Price Data to Understand An Export Shock in Sudan

Rodney Ramcharan

2002/083: Family Attachment and the Decision to Move by Race

Antonio Spilimbergo and Luis Ubeda

2002/082: Do “Flexible” Exchange Rates of Developing Countries Behave Like the Floating Exchange Rates of Industrialized Countries?

Peter Wickham

2002/081: Statistical Inference as a Bargaining Game

Eduardo Ley

2002/080: Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms and Inflation in Slovakia

Louis Kuijs

2002/079: The Choice Between External and Domestic Debt in Financing Budget Deficits: The Case of Central and West African Countries

Philippe Beaugrand, Montfort Mlachila and Boileau Loko

2002/078: Composition of Government Expenditures and Demand for Education in Developing Countries

John Matovu and Era Dabla-Norris

2002/077: Expenditure Composition, Fiscal Adjustment, and Growth in Low-Income Countries

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Emanuele Baldacci and Carlos Mulas-Granados

2002/076: Macroeconomic Management and the Devolution of Fiscal Powers

International Monetary Fund

2002/075: Growing Up with Capital Flows

Ashoka Mody and Antu Murshid

2002/074: International Contagion Effects from the Russian Crisis and the LTCM Near-Collapse

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

2002/073: Vested Interests in a Positive Theory of IFI Conditionality

Alex Mourmouras and Wolfgang Mayer

2002/072: Is Policy Ownership An Operational Concept?

James Boughton and Alex Mourmouras

2002/071: The Costs and Benefits of Various Wage Bargaining Structures: An Empirical Exploration

Alun Thomas

2002/070: You Say You Want A Revolution: Information Technology and Growth

James Morsink and Markus Haacker

2002/069: External Debt and Growth

Hélène Poirson, Luca Ricci and Catherine Pattillo

2002/068: The Aging of the Population and the Size of the Welfare State

Phillip Swagel, Efraim Sadka and Assaf Razin

2002/067: Fiscal Revenues in South Mediterranean Arab Countries: Vulnerabilities and Growth Potential

Karim Nashashibi

2002/066: The Boom, Bust and Restructuring of Indonesian Banks

Mari Pangestu and Manggi Habir

2002/065: Reserve Requirementson Foreign Currency Deposits in Sub-Saharan Africa: Main Features and Policy Implications

Arto Kovanen

2002/064: What Moves Capital to Transition Economies?

Nada Mora, Ratna Sahay, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Pietro Garibaldi

2002/063: Dread of Depreciation: Measuring Real Exchange Rate Interventions

Jayasri Dutta

2002/062: Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility

Robert Flood and Nancy Marion

2002/061: Foreign Direct Investment in Africa—Some Case Studies

Anupam Basu and Krishna Srinivasan

2002/060: Energy Sector Quasi-Fiscal Activities in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Aleh Tsyvinski, Martin Petri and Günther Taube

2002/059: The Role of Corporate, Legal and Macroeconomic Balance Sheet Indicators in Crisis Detection and Prevention

Manuel De la Rocha, Roberto Perrelli and Christian Mulder

2002/058: How Do Treasury Systems Operate in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa?

Luc Leruth, Dominique Bouley and Jerome Fournel

2002/057: Early Ideas on Sovereign Bankruptcy Reorganization: A Survey

Kenneth Rogoff and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

2002/056: Banking Crises and Bank Resolution: Experiences in Some Transition Economies

International Monetary Fund

2002/055: Systemic Risk and Financial Consolidation: Are they Related?

Gianni De Nicolo and Myron Kwast

2002/054: The Transmission Mechanism of European Monetary Policy: Is There Heterogeneity? Is it Changing over Time?

Matteo Ciccarelli and Alessandro Rebucci

2002/053: Credit Stagnation in Latin America

Adolfo Barajas and Roberto Steiner

2002/052: Why White, Not Keynes? Inventing the Post-War International Monetary System

James Boughton

2002/051: External Wealth, the Trade Balance, and the Real Exchange Rate

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2002/050: Primeron Reforms in a Second-Best Ambiguous Environment: A Case for Gradualism

S. Erbas

2002/049: The Rule of Law and the Pattern of Environment Protection

Muthukumara Mani and Per Fredriksson

2002/048: Candidate Entry, Screening, and the Political Budget Cycle

Eric Le Borgne and Ben Lockwood

2002/047: Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets: Income, Repatriations and Financial Vulnerabillities

Alexander Lehmann

2002/046: Regulatory and Supervisory Independence and Financial Stability

Michael Taylor and Marc Quintyn

2002/045: The Impact of Cyclical Factors on the U. S. Balance of Payments

Joshua Greene and Magda Kandil

2002/044: Optimal Central Bank Conservatism and Monopoly Trade Unions

Carsten Hefeker, Helge Berger and Ronnie Schlöb

2002/043: International Capital Crunches: The Time-Varying Role of Informational Asymmetries

Ashoka Mody and Mark Taylor

2002/042: Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975–99

Eswar Prasad

2002/041: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework of Investment with Financing Constraint

Danyang Xie and Chi-Wa Yuen

2002/040: Issues in Global Natural Gas: A Primer and Analysis

Bright Okogu

2002/039: Dornbusch’s Overshooting Model After Twenty-Five Years

Kenneth Rogoff

2002/038: The Economic Consequences of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Markus Haacker

2002/037: On-the-Job Search and the Beveridge Curve

Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter

2002/036: Columbia or High School? Understanding the Roles of Education in Development

Rodney Ramcharan

2002/035: Social Sector Spending in a Panel of Countries

Reza Baqir

2002/034: Monetary Rules for Emerging Market Economies

Alessandro Rebucci and Fabio Ghironi

2002/033: Trust As a Means of Improving Corporate Governance and Efficiency

Ralph Chami and Connel Fullenkamp

2002/032: Purchasing Power Parity and New Trade Theory

Luca Ricci and Ronald MacDonald

2002/031: A Model of Multiple Equilibria in Geographic Labor Mobility

Luis Ubeda and Antonio Spilimbergo