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2001/046: How Do Countries Choose their Exchange Rate Regime?

Hélène Poirson

2001/045: Comparing Projections and Outcomes of IMF-Supported Programs

Steven Phillips and Alberto Musso

2001/044: Inflation and Financial Depth

Mohsin Khan, Abdelhak Senhadji and Bruce Smith

2001/043: Measures to Limit the offshore Use of Currencies: Pros and Cons

International Monetary Fund

2001/042: How Does Privatization Work? Ownership Concentration and Enterprise Performance in Ukraine

Alexander Pivovarsky

2001/041: International Trade in Manufactured Products: A Ricardo-Heckscher-Ohlin Explanation with Monopolistic Competition

Ehsan Choudhri and Dalia Hakura

2001/040: Population Aging in Japan: Demographic Shock and Fiscal Sustainability

Martin Mühleisen and Hamid Faruqee

2001/039: The Equilibrium Distributions of Value for Risky Stocks and Bonds

Ronald Johannes

2001/038: PPP and the Balassa Samuelson Effect: The Role of the Distribution Sector

Ronald MacDonald and Luca Ricci

2001/037: Obtstacles to Faster Growth in Transition Economies: The Mongolian Case

Stabley Black

2001/036: Mortgage Market Development, Savings, and Growth

Xiaowei Li

2001/035: Social Sector Reform in Transition Countries

Christian Keller and Peter Heller

2001/034: Monetary Union in West Africa: An Agency of Restraint for Fiscal Policies?

Catherine Pattillo and Paul Masson

2001/033: Africa's Trade Revisted

Natalia Tamirisa and Arvind Subramanian

2001/032: Human Capital Convergence: International Evidence

Randa Sab and Stephen Smith

2001/031: Inflation Targeting in the Context of IMF-Supported Adjustment Programs

Gerd Schwartz, Pau Rabanal, Mario Bléjer and Alfredo Leone

2001/030: In Search of Coincident and Leading Indicators of Economic Activity in Argentina

Alejandro Simone

2001/029: What Drives Contagion: Trade Neighborhood, or Financial Links?

Rodrigo Valdés and Leonardo Hernández

2001/028: Euro-Area Banking At the Crossroads

Agnes Belaisch, Joaquim Levy, Laura Kodres and Angel Ubide

2001/027: Sustaining Fixed Exchange Rates: A Model with Debt and Institutions

Alexander Pitt

2001/026: A Cointegration Analysis of Broad Money Demand in Cameroon

Jean-Claude Nachega

2001/025: Toward a Framework for Assessing Data Quality

Carol Carson

2001/024: A Quest for Revenue and Tax Incidence in Uganda

John Matovu, Duanjie Chen and Ritva Reinikka

2001/023: Competitiveness and the Equilibrium Exchange Rate in Costa Rica

Claudio Paiva

2001/022: Electoral System and Public Spending

Roberto Perotti, Massimo Rostagno and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2001/021: Bank Competition and Firm Creation

Giovanni Dell'ariccia

2001/020: Flight to Quality or to Captivity: Information and Credit Allocation

Giovanni Dell'ariccia and Robert Marquez

2001/019: On the Long and Short of Central Bank Independence, Policy Coordination, and Economic Performance

Alberto Musalem Borrero

2001/018: Currency Crises and Foreign Reserves: A Simple Model

Piti Disyatat

2001/017: Physical Capital Adjustment within Spain: Long-Run and Short-Run Analysis

Antonio Spilimbergo and Paolo Mauro

2001/016: Explaining Russia's Output Collapse: Aggregate Sources and Regional Evidence

Irina Dolinskaya and Irina Tytell

2001/015: Rent Seeking and Endogenous Income Inequality

Paul Wade and Era Dabla-Norris

2001/014: The Macroeconomic Effects of Higher Oil Prices

Peter Isard, Benjamin Hunt and Douglas Laxton

2001/013: Counterfeit Goods and Income Inequality

Stefania Scandizzo

2001/012: Different Strokes? Common and Uncommon Responses to Financial Crises

James Boughton

2001/011: The Role of Medium-Term Fiscal Frameworks for Transition Countries: The Case of Bulgaria

Balázs Horváth and Istvan P Szekely

2001/010: Modeling Politics with Economic Tools: A Critical Survey of the Literature

Jan-Peter Olters

2001/009: Time-To-Build and Convex Adjustment Costs

Petya Brooks

2001/008: Budgetary Transparency for Public Expenditure Control

Franco Reviglio

2001/007: Inflation Targeting with NAIRU Uncertainty and Endogenous Policy Credibility

Peter Isard, Douglas Laxton and Ann-Charlotte Eliasson

2001/006: Growth Slowdown in Bureaucratic Economic Systems: An Issue Revisited

Ales Bulir and Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski

2001/005: Recursive Utility, Endogenous Growth, and the Welfare Cost of Volatility

Aude Pommeret and Anne Epaulard

2001/004: Are African Current Account Deficits Different? Stylized Facts, Transitory Shocks, and Decomposition Analysis

Luisa Zanforlin, César Calderón and Alberto Chong

2001/003: China's Provincial Growth Dynamics

Jahangir Aziz and Christoph Duenwald

2001/002: Crises and Liquidity: Evidence and Interpretation

Enrica Detragiache and Antonio Spilimbergo

2001/001: Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets: Does the Exchange Rate Regime Make a Difference?

Thomas Philippon, Jeromin Zettelmeyer and Eduardo Borensztein

2000/216: The New Economy and Global Stock Returns

Luis Catão and Robin Brooks

2000/215: The Role of Subordinated Debt in Market Discipline: The Case of Emerging Markets

Cem Karacadag and Animesh Shrivastava

2000/214: Depositor Behavior and Market Discipline in Colombia

Roberto Steiner and Adolfo Barajas

2000/213: Issues in the Unification of Financial Sector Supervision

Richard Abrams and Michael Taylor

2000/212: Measuring Integrated Market and Credit Risks in Bank Portfolios: An Application to a Set of Hypothetical Banks Operation in South Africa

Panagiotis Papapanagiotou, Theodore Barnhill and Liliana Schumacher

2000/211: An Incentive Approach to Identifying Financial System Vulnerabilities

Jingqing Chai and R. Johnston

2000/210: The U.K. Business Cycle, Monetary Policy, and EMU Entry

Hossein Samiei and Zenon Kontolemis

2000/209: Financial Development and Economic Growth: An Overview

Mohsin Khan and Abdelhak Senhadji

2000/208: Will the Emergence of the Euro Affect World Commodity Prices?

Hong Liang and John Cuddington

2000/207: Inflation in Albania

Philipp Rother

2000/206: Day-To-Day Monetary Policy and the Volatility of the Federal Funds Interest Rate

Alessandro Prati, Giuseppe Bertola and Leonardo Bartolini

2000/205: Government Spending, Rights, and Civil Liberties

International Monetary Fund

2000/204: Comprehensive Measures of GDP and the Unrecorded Economy

Manik Shrestha and Adriaan Bloem

2000/203: El Nino and World Primary Commodity Prices: Warm Water or Hot Air?

Allan Brunner

2000/202: Measuring off-Balance-Sheet Leverage

Peter Breuer

2000/201: Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union

Hershel Grossman and Dmitry Gershenson

2000/200: What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis?

Antonio Spilimbergo and Rupa Duttagupta

2000/199: Dual Currency Boards: A Proposal for Currency Stability

Stefan Oppers

2000/198: A Panic-Prone Pack? the Behavior of Emerging Market Mutual Funds

R. Gaston Gelos and Eduardo Borensztein

2000/197: Demand-Side Stabilization Policies: What is the Evidence of their Potential?

Magda Kandil

2000/196: External Debt Management in Low-Income Countries

Sheku Bangura, Robert Powell and Damoni Kitabire

2000/195: Loan Review, Provisioning, and Macroeconomic Linkages

International Monetary Fund

2000/194: The Inverted Fisher Hypothesis: Inflation Forecastability and Asset Substitution"

Woon Gyu Choi

2000/193: Explaining Economic Growth with Imperfect Credit Markets

Luis Carranza

2000/192: Northwest of Suez: The 1956 Crisis and the IMF

James Boughton

2000/191: Effects of Volatile Asset Priceson Balance of Payments and International Investment Position

Marco Committeri

2000/190: Emerging Market Spreads: Then Versus Now

Yishay Yafeh, Paolo Mauro and Nathan Sussman

2000/189: To "B" or Not to "B": A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model

Danyang Xie

2000/188: Endogenous Money Supply and Money Demand

Woon Gyu Choi and Seonghwan Oh

2000/187: Poverty, Inequality, and Unethical Behavior of the Strong

Arye Hillman

2000/186: Transparency in Central Bank Financial Statement Disclosures

Kenneth Sullivan

2000/185: How Can Fiscal Policy Help Avert Currency Crises?

George Kopits

2000/184: The Asymmetric Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence From Developing Countries

Magda Kandil

2000/183: Optimal Inventory Policies when the Demand Distribution is not Known

Erik Larson, Sunil Sharma and Lars Olson

2000/182: Corruption, Growth, and Public Finances

Vito Tanzi and Hamid Davoodi

2000/181: Globalization, Technological Developments, and the Work of Fiscal Termites

Vito Tanzi

2000/180: The Cost of Government and the Misuse of Public Assets

Tej Prakash and Vito Tanzi

2000/179: Inflation, Debt, and Default in a Monetary Union

Samir Jahjah

2000/178: Israeli Inflation From An International Perspective

David Orsmond and Stanley Fischer

2000/177: International Debt and the Price of Domestic Assets

Roberto Garcia-Saltos and Leonardo Auernheimer

2000/176: Smuggling, Currency Substitution and Unofficial Dollarization: A Crime-Theoretic Approach

Alex Mourmouras and Steven Russell

2000/175: Trade and Domestic Financial Market Reform Under Political Uncertainty: Implications for Investment, Savings, and the Real Exchange Rate

Rina Bhattacharya

2000/174: Votingon the "Optimal" Size of Government

Jan-Peter Olters

2000/173: The Disappearing Tax Base: Is Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Eroding Corporate Income Taxes?

Reint Gropp and Kristina Kostial

2000/172: Good, Bad or Ugly? On the Effects of Fiscal Rules with Creative Accounting

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2000/171: Pension Reform, Private Saving, and the Current Account in a Small Open Economy

Axel Schimmelpfennig

2000/170: Fiscal Policy Through Time-Varying Tax Rates: If and How

Martin Kaufman

2000/169: Tales From Two Neighbors: Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States

Martin Cerisola and Jorge Chan-Lau

2000/168: Does IMF Financing Result in Moral Hazard?

Steven Phillips and Timothy Lane

2000/167: The Plutocratic Bias in the CPI: Evidence from Spain

Javier Ruiz Castillo, Eduardo Ley and Mario Izquierdo

2000/166: Health Care and its Financing in Italy: Issues and Reform Options

Franco Reviglio

2000/165: The Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Aggregate Demand in a Small Open Economy: An Application of the Structural Error Correction Model

Tetsuya Konuki

2000/164: The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policieson Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries

Richard Disney

2000/163: Banks’ Reserve Management, Transaction Costs, and the Timing of Federal Reserve Intervention

Giuseppe Bertola, Leonardo Bartolini and Alessandro Prati