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2002/017: The Role of Affordable Mortgages in Improving Living Standards and Stimulating Growth: A Survey of Selected Mena Countries

Frank Nothaft and S. Erbas

2002/016: Population Aging and its Macroeconomic Implications: A Framework for Analysis

Hamid Faruqee

2002/015: Activation of a Modern Industry

Danyang Xie and Ping Wang

2002/014: Exchange Market Pressure, Currency Crises, and Monetary Policy: Additional Evidence From Emerging Markets

Evan Tanner

2002/013: Sources of Economic Growth in East Asia: A Nonparametric Assessment

Mohsin Khan, Shigeru Iwata and Hiroshi Murao

2002/012: Mexico: Experiences with Pro-Poor Expenditure Policies

Ana Corbacho and Gerd Schwartz

2002/011: Capital Flows to Transition Economies: Master or Servant?

Leslie Lipschitz, Alex Mourmouras and Timothy Lane

2002/010: Impact of Structural Reformson Productivity Growth in Industrial Countries

Ranil Salgado

2002/009: Structural Vulnerabilities and Currency Crises

Swart Ghosh and Atish Ghosh

2002/008: The Corporate Spread Curve and Industrial Production in the United States

Jorge Chan-Lau and Iryna Ivaschenko

2002/007: Predicting Emerging Market Currency Crashes

W. Perraudin, Manmohan Kumar and Uma Moorthy

2002/006: Financial Reforms and Interest Rate Spreads in the Commercial Banking System in Malawi

Ephraim Chirwa and Montfort Mlachila

2002/005: Fiscal Sustainability and Monetary Versus Fiscal Dominance: Evidence From Brazil, 1991-2000

Evan Tanner and Alberto Ramos

2002/004: Financial Crises, Poverty, and Income Distribution

International Monetary Fund

2002/003: Currency Crises and Uncertainty About Fundamentals

Massimo Sbracia and Alessandro Prati

2002/002: The Austrian Theory of Business Cycles: Old Lessons for Modern Economic Policy?

Stefan Oppers

2002/001: The Impact of Changes in Stock Prices and House Priceson Consumption in OECD Countries

Alexander Ludwig and Torsten Sloek

2001/216: Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers: A Cross-Country Investigation

Qing Wang

2001/215: An Investigation of Output Variance Before and During Inflation Targeting

Francisco Nadal De Simone

2001/214: Pension Reform and the Fiscal Policy Stance

Philip Gerson, George Mackenzie, Peter Heller and Alfredo Cuevas

2001/213: A Model of the Joint Distribution of Banking and Exchange-Rate Crises

Nancy Marion and Robert Flood

2001/212: Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation in Latin America During the 1990s

Luis Jácome

2001/211: Systemic Weaknesses of Budget Management in Anglophone Africa

Ian Lienert and Feridoun Sarraf

2001/210: Convertibility Risk: The Precautionary Demand for Foreign Currency in a Crisis

Alex Mourmouras, Stabley Black and Charalambos Christofides

2001/209: The Treatment of Nonperforming Loans in Macroeconomic Statistics

Cornelis Gorter and Adriaan Bloem

2001/208: Government Spending, Legislature Size, and the Executive Veto

Reza Baqir

2001/207: Uncovered Interest Parity in Crisis: The Interest Rate Defense in the 1990s

Andrew Rose and Robert Flood

2001/206: Quantity Controls, License Transferability, and the Level of Investment

Ling Hui Tan, Kala Krishna and Ram Ranjan

2001/205: Central Bank Independence and the Design of Fiscal Institutions

Francesca Castellani and Xavier Debrun

2001/204: The Impact of Corporate Governance Structures on the Agency Cost of Debt

Jorge Chan-Lau

2001/203: Mind the Gap: What is the Best Measure of Slack in the Euro Area?

Angel Ubide and Kevin Ross

2001/202: Corporate Restructuring in Japan: An Event-Study Analysis

Jorge Chan-Lau

2001/201: Financial Stability and Fiscal Crises in a Monetary Union

Samir Jahjah

2001/199: Regional Disparities and Transfer Policies in Russia: Theory and Evidence

Era Dabla-Norris and Shlomo Weber

2001/198: Sources of Inflation in Developing Countries

Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel

2001/197: Limiting Currency Volatility to Stimulate Goods Market Integration: A Price-Based Approach

David Parsley and Shang-Jin Wei

2001/196: An Unbiased Appraisal of Purchasing Power Parity

Christopher McDermott and Paul Cashin

2001/195: Fiscal Expenditure Policy and Non-Oil Economic Growth: Evidence from GCC Countries

Qing Wang and Ugo Fasano-Filho

2001/194: Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices: Does the Inflationary Environment Matter?

Dalia Hakura and Ehsan Choudhri

2001/193: Stock Market Liberalizations: Financial and Macroeconomic Implications

Norbert Funke and Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

2001/192: Capital Flows and Their Macroeconomic Effects in India

Renu Kohli

2001/191: Foreign Currency Credit Ratings for Emerging Market Economies

Roberto Perrelli and Christian Mulder

2001/190: Exchange Rates and Capital Flows

Robin Brooks, Torsten Sloek, Manmohan Kumar and Hali Edison

2001/189: Speculative Attacks in the Asian Crisis

Zhiwei Zhang

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

2001/145: Fiscal Rules: Useful Policy Framework or Unnecessary Ornament?

George Kopits

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