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

Joshua Comenetz, Ales Bulir and Zuzana Brixiová 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

2001/087: The Size and Sustainability of Nigerian Current Account Deficits

Olumuyiwa Adedeji

2001/086: Resources and Incentives to Reform: A Model and Some Evidence on Sub-Saharan African Countries

Guido de Blasio and A. Dalmazzo

2001/085: Beyond Balanced Growth

Sergio Rebelo, Piyabha Kongsamut and Danyang Xie

2001/084: The Impact of the EMUon the Structure of European Equity Returns: An Empirical Analysis of the First 21 Months

Thomas Kraus

2001/083: Post-Resolution Treatment of Depositors At Failed Banks: Implications for the Severity of Banking Crises, Systemic Risk, and too-Big-To-Fail

George Kaufman and Steven Seelig

2001/082: Modeling and Forecasting Inflation in Japan

Toshitaka Sekine

2001/081: Intellectual Property Rights and International R&D Competition

Stefania Scandizzo

2001/080: The Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana

Silvia Sgherri and Maitland MacFarlan

2001/079: Benefits of Compliance with Securities Listing Standards: Evidence From the Depository Receipt Market

Abdourahmane Sarr

2001/078: New Economy Stock Valuations and Investment in the 1990s

Torsten Sloek and Hali Edison

2001/077: Wealth Effects and the New Economy

Torsten Sloek and Hali Edison

2001/076: The International Lender of Last Resort: How Large is Large Enought?

Olivier Jeanne

2001/075: Domestic Petroleum Price Smoothing in Developing and Transition Countries

Benedict Bingham, James Daniel and Giulio Federico

2001/074: Fiscal Deficits and Inflation: A New Look at the Emerging Market Evidence

Marco Terrones and Luis Catão

2001/073: Competition Among Regulators

Robert Marquez and Giovanni Dell'ariccia

2001/072: Treatment of Mobile Phone Licences in the National Accounts

Nils Maehle and Robert Dippelsman

2001/071: Fiscal Decentralization and Governance: A Cross-Country Analysis

International Monetary Fund

2001/070: What is Different About Family Businesses?

Ralph Chami

2001/069: An Exploration of the Private Sector Response to Changes in Government Saving Across OECD Countries

Alun Thomas

2001/068: The Long-Run Behavior of Commodity Prices: Small Trends and Big Variability

Paul Cashin and Christopher McDermott

2001/067: Bank Debit Taxes in Latin America: An Analysis of Recent Trends

Isaias Coelho, Victoria Perry and Liam Ebrill

2001/066: Sanctions and Civil Conflict

Dmitry Gershenson

2001/065: Intergovernmental Relations and Fiscal Discipline: Between Commons and Soft Budget Constraints

Giuseppe Pisauro

2001/064: Determinants of Private Capital Flows in the 1970's and 1990's: Is there Evidence of Contagion?

Rodrigo Valdés, Leonardo Hernández and Pamela Melado

2001/063: Domestic Bank Regulation and Financial Crises: Theory and Empirical Evidence From East Asia

Kenneth Kletzer and Robert Dekle

2001/062: Financial System Standards and Financial Stability: The Case of the Basel Core Principles

Dewitt Marston

2001/061: Financial Implications of the Shrinking Supply of U.S. Treasury Securities

Garry Schinasi, T. Smith and Charles Kramer

2001/060: Price Volatility and Financial Instability

Gene Leon and Rupert Worrell

2001/059: Whose Inflation? A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic Bias

Eduardo Ley

2001/058: Monetary Implications of Cross-Border Derivatives for Emerging Economies

Armando Méndez Morales

2001/057: Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: The Bolivian Family

Gabriela Inchauste

2001/056: Interpreting Real Exchange Rate Movements in Transition Countries

International Monetary Fund

2001/055: Transition Economies: How Appropriate is the Size and Scope of Government?

International Monetary Fund

2001/054: International Trade and Poverty Alleviation

Geoffrey Bannister

2001/053: Financial Reforms in Sudan: Streamlining Bank Intermediation

Alexei Kireyev

2001/052: Indonesia: Anatomy of a Banking Crisis Two Years of Living Dangerously 1997–99

Arto Kovanen, Olivier Frecaut, Barbara Baldwin and Charles Enoch

2001/051: Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets

Karl Habermeier and Andrei Kirilenko

2001/050: High Inflation and Real Wages

Benedikt Braumann

2001/049: Currency Crises and the Real Economy: The Role of Banks

Piti Disyatat

2001/048: The Fall and Recovery of the Cuban Economy in the 1990's: Mirage or Reality?

Ernesto Hernández-Catá

2001/047: Financial Sustainability and Reform Options for the Albanian Pension Fund

Volker Treichel

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