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2001/188: Measuring Statistical Capacity Building: A Logical Framework Approach

Thomas Morrison and Sarmad Khawaja

2001/187: The Effects of Capital Controls on Exchange Rate Volatility and Output

Christiane Nickel, Günter Schmidt, Georg Stadtmann and Michael Frenkel

2001/186: The Zero Interest Rate Floor (ZIF) and its Implications for Monetary Policy in Japan

Douglas Laxton and Benjamin Hunt

2001/185: Hedging Government Oil Price Risk

James Daniel

2001/184: Implications of Globalization for Monetary Policy

Helmut Wagner

2001/183: Manuals on Macroeconomic Statistics: A Stocktaking to Guide Future Work

Carol Carson and Lucie Laliberté

2001/182: An Attempt to Profile the Finances of China’s Enterprise Sector

Cem Karacadag and Paul Heytens

2001/181: Tax Incentives in The Philippines: A Regional Perspective

Nigel Chalk

2001/180: A Simple Measure of the Intensity of Capital Controls

Francis Warnock and Hali Edison

2001/179: Euro Area Money Demand: Measuring the Opportunity Costs Appropriately

Joaquim Levy, Alessandro Calza and Dieter Gerdesmeier

2001/178: Is Fiscal Policy Coordination in EMU Desirable?

Roel Beetsma, Xavier Debrun and Franc Klaassen

2001/177: Monetary Policy and Corporate Liquid Asset Demand

Woon Gyu Choi and Yungsan Kim

2001/176: The Art of Making Everybody Happy: How to Prevent a Secession

Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber

2001/175: Determinants of, and the Relation Between, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth: A Summary of the Recent Literature

Ewe-Ghee Lim

2001/174: The Law of One Price Over 700 Years

Kenneth Rogoff, Kenneth Froot and Michael Kim

2001/173: Economic Data Dissemination: What Influences Country Performanceon Frequency and Timiliness?

Mehmet Agça and Peter Allum

2001/172: Short- and Long-Term Poverty and Social Policy in a “Snakes and Ladders” Model of Growth

Alfredo Cuevas

2001/171: Key Features of Australian Business Cycles

Paul Cashin and Sam Ouliaris

2001/170: Post-Crisis Exchange Rate Policy in Five Asian Countries: Filling in the "Hollow Middle"?

Leonardo Hernández and Peter Montiel

2001/169: The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia

Gonzalo Pastor Campos and Tatiana Damjanovic

2001/168: Inflation Dynamics in Madagascar, 1971-2000

Emilio Sacerdoti and Yuan Xiao

2001/167: How Volatile and Unpredictable Are Aid Flows, and What Are the Policy Implications?

A. Javier Hamann and Ales Bulir

2001/166: Inflation Targeting and the Unemployment-Inflation Trade-off

Chorng-Huey Wong, Eric Clifton and Gene Leon

2001/165: Emerging Market Bond Spreads and Sovereign Credit Ratings: Reconciling Market Views with Economic Fundamentals

Amadou Sy

2001/164: Private Costs and Public Infrastructure: The Mexican Case

Russell Murphy and Andrew Feltenstein

2001/163: Trade in the Mashreq: An Empirical Examination

Rodolphe Blavy

2001/162: Systemic Financial Crises, Balance Sheets, and Model Uncertainity

Melvyn Weeks and Mark Stone

2001/161: Inflation Targeting Under Asymmetric Preferences

Francisco Ruge-Murcia

2001/160: Financial Development and Poverty Alleviation: Issues and Policy Implications for Developing and Transition Countries

Vassili Prokopenko and Paul Holden

2001/159: Should Banks Be Narrowed?

Biaggio Bossone

2001/158: Corporate Bond Risk and Real Activity: An Empirical Analysis of Yield Spreads and Their Systematic Components

Iryna Ivaschenko and Jorge Chan-Lau

2001/157: Cost and Effectiveness of Banking Sector Restructuring in Transition Economies

Edda Zoli

2001/156: Econometric Analysis of Discrete Reforms

Alexei Kireyev

2001/155: Why Has the Euro Been so Weak?

Guy Meredith

2001/154: From Crisis to Recovery in Korea: Strategy, Achievements, and Lessons

Kenneth Kang, Hong Liang, Henry Ma, Anthony Richards, Ajai Chopra and Meral Karasulu

2001/153: Economic and Environmental Benefits of Eliminating Log Export Bans—The Case of Costa Rica

Nalin Kishor, Muthukumara Mani and Luis Constantino

2001/152: Characterizing Exchange Rate Regimes in Post-Crisis East Asia

Taimur Baig

2001/151: Monetary Policy with a touch of Basel

Ralph Chami and Thomas Cosimano

2001/150: Trade Integration and Political Turbulence: Environmental Policy Consequences

Muthukumara Mani and Per Fredriksson

2001/149: Implementation of Monetary Policy and the Central Bank's Balance Sheet

Andrea Schaechter

2001/148: What Does South Africa's Pattern of Trade Say About its Labor Markets?

Arvind Subramanian and Trevor Alleyne

2001/147: Asset Securitization and Structured Financing: Future Prospects and Challenges for Countries in Emerging Markets

Lakshman Alles

2001/146: Real Convergence to EU Income Levels: Central Europe From 1990 to the Long Term

Guorong Jiang, Peter Doyle and Louis Kuijs

2001/144: Debt Relief Under the HIPC Initiative: Context and Outlook for Debt Sustainability and Resource Flow

Doris Ross and Lisandro Abrego

2001/143: Reserve Adequacy in Emerging Market Economics

International Monetary Fund

2001/142: IMF Conditionality and Country Ownership of Programs

Mohsin Khan and Sunil Sharma

2001/141: Financial Sector Evolution in the Central European Economies: Challenges in Supporting Macroeconomic Stability and Sustainable Growth

Nancy Wagner and Dora Iakova

2001/140: A Model of Exchange Rate Regime Choice in the Transitional Economies of Central and Eastern Europe

Vladimir Klyuev

2001/139: A Primeron Mineral Taxation

Thomas Baunsgaard

2001/138: Bank Reform and Bank Efficiency in Pakistan

International Monetary Fund

2001/137: International Financial Contagion and the IMF: A Theoretical Framework

Peter Clark and Haizhou Huang

2001/136: Rationing Rules and Outcomes: The Experience of Singapore’s Vehicle Quota System

Ling Hui Tan

2001/135: Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction: Stylized Facts and an Overview of Research

Paul Cashin, Catherine Pattillo, Ratna Sahay and Paolo Mauro

2001/134: Pure Contagion and Investors Shifting Risk Appetite: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence

Manmohan Kumar and Avinash Persaud

2001/133: Returns to Human Capital and Investment in New Technology

Rodolfo Luzio, Steven Dunaway and Martin Kaufman

2001/132: Statistical Treatment of Accrual of Intereston Debt Securities

Chris Wright and John Joisce

2001/131: Policies and Prospects in Japan and the Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region

Tim Callen and Warwick McKibbin

2001/130: The New International Financial Architecture and Africa

Saleh Nsouli and Françoise Le Gall

2001/129: Real Estate Market Developments and Financal Sector Soundness

Paul Hilbers, Lisbeth Zacho and Qin Lei

2001/128: Migration, Human Capital, and Poverty in a Dual-Economy Model of a Developing Country

Paul Masson

2001/127: Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor

Marijn Verhoeven, Sanjeev Gupta and Erwin Tiongson

2001/126: Subsidy Reforms and Poverty Alleviation

Chandra Bhambhri and Parkash Chander

2001/125: Pension Reform in India

Robert Gillingham and Daniel Kanda

2001/124: Convergence of Relative Prices and Inflation in Central and Eastern Europe

Tomas Holub and Martin Cihak

2001/123: Financial System Soundness in the Caribbean: An Initial Assessment

Desiree Cherebin, Rupert Worrell and Tracy Polius

2001/122: Has Inventory Investment Been Liquidity-Constrained? Evidence From U.S. Panel Data

Yungsan Kim and Woon Gyu Choi

2001/121: Is Foreign Debt Portfolio Management Efficient in Emerging Economies?

Khaled Hussein

2001/120: Czech Koruna and Polish Zloty: Spot and Currency Option Volatility Patterns

Armando Méndez Morales

2001/119: The Impact of U.S. Economic Growthon the Rest of the World: How Much Does it Matter?

Athanasios Vamvakidis and Vivek Arora

2001/118: Financial Liberalization, Money Demand, and Inflation in Uganda

Jean-Claude Nachega

2001/117: Agents’ Preferences, the Equity Premium, and the Consumption-Saving Trade-Off: An Application to French Data

Aude Pommeret and Anne Epaulard

2001/116: Who Can Explain The Mauritian Miracle: Meade, Romer, Sachs or Rodrik?

Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Roy

2001/115: Multiple Avenues of Intermediation, Corporate Finance and Financial Stability

E Davis

2001/114: Institutional Reform in Transition Economies: How Far Have they Come

Beatrice Weder

2001/113: The New Basel Capital Accord: The Devil Is in the (Calibration) Details

Paul Kupiec

2001/112: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gary Moser and Toshihiro Ichida

2001/111: The Asset Allocation of Emerging Market Mutual Funds

Piti Disyatat and R. Gaston Gelos

2001/110: Injury Investigations in anti-Dumping and the Super-Additivity Effect: A Theoretical Explanation

Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagariya

2001/109: Short-Term Forecasting: Projecting Italian GDPone Quarter to Two Years Ahead

Matteo Iacoviello

2001/108: Transitional Growth with Increasing Inequality and Financial Deepening

Kenichi Ueda

2001/107: Long-Term Capital Movements

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2001/106: The Impact of Public Education Expenditure on Human Capital, Growth, and Poverty in Tanzania and Zambia: A General Equilibrium Approach

Erik Thorbecke and Hong-Sang Jung

2001/105: A Statistical Analysis of Banking Performance in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union in the 1990s

V. Juan-Ramon, Ruby Randall and Oral Williams

2001/104: Reserve Pooling in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union and the CFA Franc Zone: A Comparative Analysis

Hazel Selvon, Tracy Polius and Oral Williams

2001/103: Financial Repression and Exchange Rate Management in Developing Countries: Theory and Empirical Evidence for India

Renu Kohli and Kenneth Kletzer

2001/102: Monetary Policy Under EMU: Differences in the Transmission Mechanism?

Benedict Clements, Zenon Kontolemis and Joaquim Levy

2001/101: The Imf and the Ruble Area, 1991-1993

John Odling-Smee and Gonzalo Pastor Campos

2001/100: The Two Monetary Approaches to the Balance of Payments: Keynesian and Johnsonian

J. Polak

2001/099: Philippines: Preparations for Inflation Targeting

Piyabha Kongsamut

2001/098: “Big Bang” Versus Gradualism in Economic Reforms: An Intertemporal Analysis with an Application to China

Andrew Feltenstein and Saleh Nsouli

2001/097: Can Inheritances Alleviate the Demographic Burden?

Erik Lueth

2001/096: Districting and Government Overspending

Reza Baqir

2001/095: Globalization and Firms' Financing Choices: Evidence From Emerging Economies

Sergio Schmukler and Esteban Vesperoni

2001/094: The Gender Gap in Education in Eritrea in 1991-1998: A Missed Opportunity?

Joshua Comenetz, Ales Bulir and Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski

2001/093: Consumption-Based Interest Rate and the Present-Value Model of the Current Account—Evidence from Nigeria

Olumuyiwa Adedeji

2001/092: Bond Restructuring and Moral Hazard: Are Collective Action Clauses Costly?

Torbjorn Becker, Anthony Richards and Yunyong Thaicharoen

2001/091: An Assessment of Fiscal Rules in the United Kingdom

Michael Kell

2001/090: Investment Banking and Security Market Development: Does Finance Follow Industry?

Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic P.

2001/089: Productivity in the OECD Countries: A Critical Appraisal of the Evidence

César Calderón

2001/088: Stress Testing of Financial Systems: An Overview of Issues, Methodologies, and FSAP Experiences

Maria Martinez Peria, Giovanni Majnoni, Matthew Jones and Winfrid Blaschke