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2000/103: Do Asset Prices in Transition Countries Contain Information About Future Economic Activity?

Torsten Sloek and Peter Christoffersen

2000/102: Indonesia: Implementing National Policies in a Decentralized Context: Special Purpose Programs to Protect the Poor

Ehtisham Ahmad and Luc Leruth

2000/101: International Spillovers of Macroeconomic Shocks: A Quantitative Exploration

Douglas Laxton and Eswar Prasad

2000/100: Globalization and Catching-Up: From Recession to Growth in Transition Economies

Grzegorz Kolodko

2000/099: Real Exchange Rates and Productivity: Closed-Form Solutions and Some Empirical Evidence

Jahanara Zaman

2000/098: Turkmenistan: The Burden of Current Agricultural Policies

International Monetary Fund

2000/097: Currency Boards, Credibility, and Macroeconomic Behavior

Amadou Sy and Luis Rivera-Batiz

2000/096: Aftermath of Banking Crises: Effectson Real and Monetary Variables

Poonam Gupta

2000/095: The Yen-Dollar Rate: Have Interventions Mattered?

Ramana Ramaswamy and Hossein Samiei

2000/094: Factor Reallocation and Growth in Developing Countries

Hélène Poirson

2000/093: The New Capital Adequacy Framework: Institutional Constraints and Incentive Structures

Cem Karacadag and Michael Taylor

2000/092: Financial Institutions, Financial Contagion, and Financial Crises

Haizhou Huang and Chenggang Xu

2000/091: Czech Koruna and Polish Zloty Currency Options: Information Contnent and Eu-Accession Implications

Armando Méndez Morales

2000/090: Bank Failures and Fiscal Austerity: Policy Presecriptions for a Developing Country

Andrew Feltenstein

2000/089: Stock Returns and Output Growth in Emerging and Advanced Economies

Paolo Mauro

2000/088: Spillovers Through Banking Centers: A Panel Data Analysis

International Monetary Fund

2000/087: Capital Mobility and the Output-Inflation Tradeoff

Assaf Razin, Prakash Loungani and Chi-Wa Yuen

2000/086: Centripetal forces in China's Economic Take-Off

Anuradha Dayal-Gulati and Aasim Husain

2000/085: Real Effects of High Inflation

Benedikt Braumann

2000/084: Sex Discrimination and Growth

Berta Esteve-Volart

2000/083: VIVAT, CVAT and All That: New Forms of Value-Added Tax for Federal Systems

Michael Keen

2000/082: Social Fractionalization, Political Instability, and the Size of Government

Anthony Annett

2000/081: Assessing Fiscal Sustainability in Theory and Practice

Nigel Chalk and Richard Hemming

2000/080: Seasonality and Capacity: An Application to Italy

Federico Mini and Guido de Blasio

2000/079: Emergency Liquidity Support Facilities

Dong He

2000/078: Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies

Mahmood Khan

2000/077: How Accurate Are Private Sector Forecasts: Cross-Country Evidence From Consensus Forecasts of Output Growth

Prakash Loungani

2000/076: Assessing Financial System Vulnerabilities

R. Johnston, Liliana Schumacher and Jingqing Chai

2000/075: A Simple Model of An International Lender of Last Resort

Haizhou Huang and C. Goodhart

2000/074: Social Capital and Civil Society

Francis Fukuyama

2000/073: Caribbean Approaches to Economic Stabilization

Alvin Hilaire

2000/072: Terms of Trade Shocks in Africa: Are they Short-Lived or Long-Lived?

Paul Cashin and Catherine Pattillo

2000/071: Financial Market Spillovers in Transition Economies

Ratna Sahay and R. Gaston Gelos

2000/070: Institutions Matter in Transition, But so do Policies

International Monetary Fund

2000/069: Using Credit Ratings for Capital Requirementson Lending to Emerging Market Economies: Possible Impact of a New Basel Accord

Christian Mulder and Brieuc Monfort

2000/068: Banks and Monetary Shocks in Emerging Markets: How Far Can We Go with the "Credit View"?

Luis Catão and Sergio Rodriguez

2000/067: Currency Crises: In Search of Common Elements

Ranil Salgado, Jahangir Aziz and Francesco Caramazza

2000/066: Central Banks Use of Derivatives and Other Contingent Liabilities: Analytical Issues and Policy Implications

Liliana Schumacher and Mario Bléjer

2000/065: Auction Quotas with a Foreign Duopoly

Ling Hui Tan

2000/064: Does 'Grease Money' Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?

Daniel Kaufmann and Shang-Jin Wei

2000/063: Misalignment and Managed Exchange Rates: An Application to the Thai Baht

Guay Lim

2000/062: Income Distribution and Tax and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries

Ke-young Chu, Hamid Davoodi and Sanjeev Gupta

2000/061: Welfare Effects of Uzbekistan's Foreign Exchange Regime

International Monetary Fund

2000/060: Contagion, Monsoons, and Domestic Turmoil in Indonesia: A Case Study in the Asian Currency Crisis

Sweta Saxena and Valerie Cerra

2000/059: Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap: An Application to Sweden

Sweta Saxena and Valerie Cerra

2000/058: Relative Prices, Inflation and Core Inflation

Scott Roger

2000/057: Deposit Insurance and Crisis Management

G. Garcia

2000/056: Monetary and Fiscal Coordination in Small Open Economies

Rupert Worrell

2000/055: Trade and Financial Contagion in Currency Crises

Ranil Salgado, Luca Ricci and Francesco Caramazza

2000/054: Comparative Macroeconomic Dynamics in the Arab World: A Panel Var Approach

Alexei Kireyev

2000/053: Unionization and Strategic Trade Policy

Phillip Swagel and Ling Hui Tan

2000/052: A Framework for Assessing Fiscal Vulnerability

Murray Petrie and Richard Hemming

2000/051: The Complier Pays Principle: The Limits of Fiscal Approaches toward Sustainable Forest Management

Luc Leruth, R. Paris and I. Ruzicka

2000/050: The Pros and Cons of Full Dollarization

Eduardo Borensztein and Andrew Berg

2000/049: The Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneityon the Quantity and Quality of Public Spending

Louis Kuijs

2000/048: Herd Behavior in Financial Markets: A Review

Sunil Sharma and Sushil Bikhchandani

2000/047: Compliance with IMF Program Indicators and Growth in Transition Economies

Anna Unigovskaya and Valerie Mercer-Blackman

2000/046: Medium-Term Determinants of Current Accounts in Industrial and Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration

Menzie Chinn and Eswar Prasad

2000/045: Dynamic Gains From Trade: Evidence From South Africa

Arvind Subramanian and Gunnar Jonsson

2000/044: Globalization and Growth in the Twentieth Century

Nicholas Crafts

2000/043: The International Monetary System in the (Very) Long Run

Nathan Sussman and Barry Eichengreen

2000/042: Educational Choices and Educational Constraints: Evidence From Bolivia

Gabriela Inchauste

2000/041: Demographic Transition in the Middle East: Implications for Growth, Employment, and Housing

Rina Bhattacharya, Tarik Yousef and Pierre Dhonte

2000/040: Retarding Short-Term Capital Inflows Through withholding Tax

Howell Zee

2000/039: Currency Crisis and Contagion: Evidence From Exchange Rates and Sectoral Stock Indices of the Philippines and Thailand

Jun Nagayasu

2000/038: Financial Liberalization, Bank Market Structure, and Financial Deepening: An Interest Margin Analysis

Abdourahmane Sarr

2000/037: Concordance in Business Cycles

Christopher McDermott and Alasdair Scott

2000/036: The Role of the State and the Quality of the Public Sector

Vito Tanzi

2000/035: Tax Policy for Emerging Markets: Developing Countries

Howell Zee and Vito Tanzi

2000/034: Toward a Framework for Systemic Liquidity Policy

J. Hobbs, Claudia Dziobek and Dewitt Marston

2000/033: Two Approaches to Resolving Nonperforming Assets During Financial Crises

David Woo

2000/032: The Great Contractions in Russia, the Baltics and the Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union: A View From the Supply Side

International Monetary Fund

2000/031: Trade Policy in Financial Services

Brad McDonald, Geoffrey Bannister, Natalia Tamirisa, Piritta Sorsa and Jaroslaw Wieczorek

2000/030: The Transition Economies After Ten Years

Stanley Fischer and Ratna Sahay

2000/029: The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime and Monetary Target in Highly Dollarized Economies

Eduardo Borensztein and Andrew Berg

2000/028: Devaluation Expectations and the Stock Market: The Case of Mexico in 1994/95

Torbjorn Becker, Anthony Richards and R. Gaston Gelos

2000/027: Estimation of Trade Protection in Middle East and North African Countries

Maria-Angels Oliva

2000/026: Shadow Economies Around the World: Size, Causes, and Consequences

Friedrich Schneider and Dominik Enste

2000/025: Financial Crisis and Credit Crunch in Korea: Evidence From Firm-Level Data

Jong-Wha Lee and Eduardo Borensztein

2000/024: A Framework for Price Statistics

Kimberly Zieschang

2000/023: Corruption and Military Spending

International Monetary Fund

2000/022: The Unbearable Stability of the German Wage Structure: Evidence and Interpretation

Eswar Prasad

2000/021: Monetary Policy in Transition: The Case of Mongolia

Torsten Sloek

2000/020: Bad Dreams Under Alternative Anchors: Are the Consequences Different?

Leonardo Auernheimer and Susan George

2000/019: The Interest Rate-Exchange Rate Nexus in the Asian Crisis Countries

Atish Ghosh and Gabriela Basurto

2000/018: What Will Happen to Financial Markets When the Baby Boomers Retire?

Robin Brooks

2000/017: International Trade and Productivity Growth: Exploring the Sectoral Effects for Developing Countries

Ehsan Choudhri and Dalia Hakura

2000/016: Pension System Viability and Reform Alternatives in the Czech Republic

Thomas Laursen

2000/015: Composition of Government Expenditure, Human Capital Accumulation, and Welfare

John Matovu

2000/014: Discriminating Contagion: An Alternative Explanation of Contagious Currency Crises in Emerging Markets

Pavan Ahluwalia

2000/013: Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution: Theory and Practice

John Norregaard and Valerie Reppelin

2000/012: Globalization and the Future of Social Protection

Vito Tanzi

2000/011: Public Capital and Output Growth in Portugal: An Empirical Analysis

Jenny Ligthart

2000/010: Intra-Arab Trade: Is it too Little?

Tarik Yousef and Hassan Al-Atrash

2000/009: Deposit-Refundon Labor: A Solution to Equilibrium Unemployment?

Ben Heijdra and Jenny Ligthart

2000/008: The Role of Human Capital in Economic Growth: The Case of Spain

Paolo Mauro and Enric Fernandez

2000/007: The Japanese Banking Crisis of the 1990's: Sources and Lessons

David Woo and Akihiro Kanaya

2000/006: The "Soaring Eagle": Anatomy of the Polish Take-Off in the 1990's

International Monetary Fund

2000/005: Product Variety and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence for the Oecd Countries

Michael Funke

2000/004: Identifying Domestic and Imported Core Inflation

Hilde Bjørnland