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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

2000/162: Forecasting Inflation in Chile Using State-Space and Regime-Switching Models

Francisco Nadal De Simone

2000/161: Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth

Alberto Chong and Luisa Zanforlin

2000/160: The Russian Default and the Contagion to Brazil

Taimur Baig and Ilan Goldfajn

2000/159: An Interest Rate Defense of a Fixed Exchange Rate?

Olivier Jeanne and Robert Flood

2000/158: Inflation Targeting Under Potential Output Uncertainty

Victor Gaiduch and Benjamin Hunt

2000/157: What Caused the 1991 Currency Crisis in India?

Sweta Saxena and Valerie Cerra

2000/156: Inside the Crisis: An Empirical Analysis of Banking Systems in Distress

Poonam Gupta, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Enrica Detragiache

2000/155: Determinants of Barter in Russia: An Empirical Analysis

Christian Mumssen, Irina Dolinskaya, Simon Commander and Irina Tytell

2000/154: Capital Markets and External Current Accounts: What to Expect From the Euro

Jörg Decressin and Piti Disyatat

2000/153: Chile's Rapid Growth in the 1990's-Good Policies, Good Luck, or Political Change?

Esteban Jadresic and Roberto Zahler

2000/152: External Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence

Philip Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

2000/151: Population Aging and Global Capital Flows in a Parallel Universe

Robin Brooks

2000/150: Should Subsidized Private Transfers Replace Government Social Insurance?

Connel Fullenkamp and Ralph Chami

2000/149: The Case Against Harry Dexter White: Still Not Proven

James Boughton

2000/148: How Does U.S. Monetary Policy Influence Economic Conditions in Emerging Markets?

Vivek Arora and Martin Cerisola

2000/147: The Benefits and Costs of Intervening in Banking Crises

Edward Frydl and Marc Quintyn

2000/146: Determinants of Dollarization: The Banking Side

Marco Terrones and Luis Catão

2000/145: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Banking Soundness and Recent Lessons

International Monetary Fund

2000/144: Filtering the Beer: A Permanent and Transitory Decomposition

Peter Clark and Ronald MacDonald

2000/143: Predictable Movements in Yen/DM Exchange Rates

Janet Kong

2000/142: Domestic Competition, Cyclical Fluctuations, and Long-Run Growth in Hong Kong Sar

Eric Zitzewitz

2000/141: The Impact of Monetary Policyon the Exchange Rate: Evidence From Three Small Open Economies

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

2000/140: Selected Issues Concerning Monetary Policy and Institutional Design for Central Banks: A Review of Theories

Christian Beddies

2000/139: Reforming Pensions: Myths, Truths, and Policy Choices

N. Barr

2000/138: The Facts About Time: To-Build

Petya Brooks

2000/137: Wage Flexibility and Economic Performance: Evidence Across Industrial Countries

Magda Kandil

2000/136: What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer

William Hsiao

2000/135: The Breakdown of Credit Relations Under Conditions of a Banking Crisis: A Switching Regime Approach

Sònia Muñoz

2000/134: Exchange Rate Regime Transitions

Paul Masson

2000/133: Fiscal Policy and Growth in the Context of European Integration

Paul Masson

2000/132: Corruption, Structural Reforms, and Economic Performance in the Transition Economies

George Abed and Hamid Davoodi

2000/131: The Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves: Retrospect and Prospect

Barry Eichengreen and Donald Mathieson

2000/130: Evidenceon the Fiscal and Macroeconomic Impact of Privatization

Steven Barnett

2000/129: Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?

International Monetary Fund

2000/128: Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption

Antonio Spilimbergo and Athanasios Vamvakidis

2000/127: Determinants of Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran: A Macroeconomic Analysis

O. Liu and Olumuyiwa Adedeji

2000/126: Life-Cycles, Dynasties, Savings: Implications for Closed and Small, Open Economies

Hamid Faruqee and Douglas Laxton

2000/125: Costly Collateral and the Public Supply of Liquidity

Philip Schellekens

2000/124: Cost of Living Adjustment and Business Cycles: Disaggregated Evidence

Magda Kandil

2000/123: The Transfer Problem Revisited: Net Foreign Assets and Real Exchange Rates

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Philip Lane

2000/122: Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization: A Model of Financial Fragility

Yuri Sobolev

2000/121: Convergence of Per Capita Output Levels Across Regions of Bangladesh, 1982-97

Akhand Hossain

2000/120: External Sector Reform and Public Enterprise Restructuring

Rina Bhattacharya

2000/119: Money Demand in Guyana

Philippe Egoume Bossogo

2000/118: Optimal Fiscal Strategy for Oil Exporting Countries

Rodrigo Valdés and Eduardo Engel

2000/117: Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence From the Economic Transition in Poland

Eswar Prasad and Michael Keane

2000/116: Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services

Erwin Tiongson, Hamid Davoodi and Sanjeev Gupta

2000/115: Demographic Change in Asia: The Impacton Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account

Ian McDonald, Serge Bésanger and Ross Guest

2000/114: The Corporate Sector Dynamics of Systemic Financial Crises

Mark Stone

2000/113: Fiscal Reform Over Ten Years of Transition

George Tsibouris and Vito Tanzi

2000/112: Review of the Experience with Oil Stabilization and Savings Funds in Selected Countries

Ugo Fasano-Filho

2000/111: Bidding Behavior in Treasury Bill Auctions: Evidence From Pakistan

International Monetary Fund

2000/110: Threshold Effects in the Relationship Between Inflation and Growth

Abdelhak Senhadji and Mohsin Khan

2000/109: Budgetary Convergence in the WEAMU: Adjustment Through Revenue or Expenditure?

Jean-Claude Nachega and Ousmane Dore

2000/108: Real Exchange Rate Response to Capital Flows in Mexico: An Empirical Analysis

Marcelo Dabós and V. Juan-Ramon

2000/107: Managing Financial Crises: The Experience in East Asia

Timothy Lane, A. Javier Hamann, Marianne Schulze-Gattas, Ales Bulir, Steven Phillips, Atish Ghosh, Alex Mourmouras and Jack Boorman

2000/106: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Corruption in Bureaucracies

Era Dabla-Norris

2000/105: Global Financial Crises: Institutions and Incentives

Manmohan Kumar, Paul Masson and Marcus Miller

2000/104: The Impact of Intersectoral Labor Reallocationon Economic Growth

Hélène Poirson