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1998/083: Financial Liberalization and Financial Fragility

Enrica Detragiache and Asli Demirguc-Kunt

1998/082: Selected Transition and Mediterranean Countries: An Institutional Primer on EMU and EU Relations

Robert Feldman and Heliodoro Temprano-Arroyo

1998/081: Exchange and Capital Controls as Barriers to Trade

Natalia Tamirisa

1998/080: A Model for Financial Programming

Jan Mikkelsen

1998/079: Responses of the Stock Market to Macroeconomic Announcements Across Economic States

Zuliu Hu and Li Li

1998/078: Reducing Inflation: Lessons From Albania's Early Success

C. McNeilly and Doris Schiesser-Gachnang

1998/077: How Do the Skilled and the Unskilled Respond to Regional Shocks? the Case of Spain

Paolo Mauro and Antonio Spilimbergo

1998/076: Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?

Sanjeev Gupta

1998/075: The Macroeconomic Effects of Environmental Taxes: A Closer Look at the Feasibility of “Win-Win” Outcomes

Jenny Ligthart

1998/074: The Italian Social Protection System: The Poverty of Welfare

Massimo Rostagno and Francesca Utili

1998/073: Carbon Taxes: Their Macroeconomic Effects and Prospects for Global Adoption: A Survey of the Literature

Ved Gandhi and Javier Cuervo

1998/072: External Debt Histories of Ten Low-Income Developing Countries: Lessons from Their Experience

Kevin Ross, R. Brooks, Robert Powell, Ydahlia Metzgen Quemarez, Doris Ross, Mariano Cortes, Saqib Rizavi, Benoit Ketchekmen and Francesca Fornasari

1998/071: Current Accounts: What Is Their Relevance for Economic Policymaking?

Fabio Scacciavillani and Malcolm Knight

1998/070: Government Expenditure Arrears: Securitization and Other Solutions

Alberto Ramos

1998/069: Deviations of Exchange Rates from Purchasing Power Parity: A Story Featuring Two Monetary Unions

Ronald MacDonald and Tamim Bayoumi

1998/068: Inflation, Disinflation, and Growth

Atish Ghosh and Steven Phillips

1998/067: Exchange Rates and Economic Fundamentals: A Methodological Comparison of BEERs and FEERs

Ronald MacDonald and Peter Clark

1998/066: The Fiscal Effects of Monetary Policy

Momi Dahan

1998/065: Central Bank Vulnerability and the Credibility of Commitments: A Value-at-Risk Approach to Currency Crises

Liliana Schumacher and Mario Bléjer

1998/064: The Domestic and Foreign Price Gaps in the P-STAR Model: Evidence from Spain

Alicia García-Herrero and Manoj Pradhan

1998/063: Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures

Vito Tanzi

1998/062: Multiple Equilibrium, Variability, and the Development Process

Luis Carranza and José Galdón-Sánchez

1998/061: Rethinking Public Pension Reform Initiatives

Peter Heller

1998/060: Growth, Trade, and Deindustrialization

Ramana Ramaswamy and Bob Rowthorn

1998/059: Interest Rate Spreads in the Eastern Caribbean

Ruby Randall

1998/058: Competitiveness and the Evolution of the Real Exchange Rate in Chile

Martine Guerguil and Martin Kaufman

1998/057: Money Demand and Regional Monetary Policy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Philipp Rother

1998/056: Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity

International Monetary Fund

1998/055: Fiscal Discipline and the Cost of Public Debt Service: Some Estimates for OECD Countries

Francesco Caselli

1998/054: The Design of Instruments for Government Finance in an Islamic Economy

International Monetary Fund

1998/053: How Far Is Eastern Europe from Brussels?

Ratna Sahay, Carlos Végh Gramont and Stanley Fischer

1998/052: From Transition to Market: Evidence and Growth Prospects

Ratna Sahay, Stanley Fischer and Carlos Végh Gramont

1998/051: The Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade: Developments and Prospects

Michael Leidy

1998/050: EMU, Adjustment, and Exchange Rate Variability

Luca Ricci and Peter Isard

1998/049: Trade Liberalization and Tax Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region

George Abed

1998/048: “Globalization” and Relocation in a Vertically Differentiated Industry

Isabel Grilo and Tito Cordella

1998/047: Immigration Flows and Regional Labor Market Dynamics

Dominique Gross

1998/046: The Relative Importance of Political and Economic Variables in Creditworthiness Ratings

International Monetary Fund

1998/045: Output Decline in Transition: The Case of Kazakhstan

International Monetary Fund

1998/044: Economic Announcements and the Timing of Public Debt Auctions

Marco Rossi

1998/043: Anticipation and Surprises in Central Bank Interest Rate Policy: The Case of the Bundesbank

International Monetary Fund

1998/042: The Italian Labor Market: Stylized Facts, Institutions, and Directions for Reform

Eswar Prasad and Francesca Utili

1998/041: Virtual Deficits and the Patinkin Effect

Eliane Cardoso

1998/040: Regional Trade Agreements Versus Broad Liberalization: Which Path Leads to Faster Growth? Time-Series Evidence

Athanasios Vamvakidis

1998/039: Preliminary Considerations of an Inflation Targeting Framework for the Philippines

G. Lim and Guy Debelle

1998/038: Achieving Stabilization in Armenia

Balázs Horváth

1998/037: The Prudential Regulation and Management of Foreign Exchange Risk

Richard Abrams and Paulina Beato

1998/036: Taxation and the Household Saving Rate: Evidence from OECD Countries

Howell Zee and Vito Tanzi

1998/035: Should Public Pensions be Funded?

Richard Hemming

1998/034: Evaluation of Taxes and Revenues From the Energy Sector in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Former Soviet Union Countries

Dale Gray

1998/033: The Security Factor in The Political Economy of Development

Martin McGuire

1998/032: An Econometric Analysis of Countries' Repayment Performance to the International Monetary Fund

Lynn Aylward and Rupert Thorne

1998/031: Financial Infusion and Exiting from a Money Rule

Mark Stone

1998/030: Islamic Banking: Issues in Prudential Regulations and Supervision

Luca Errico and Mitra Farahbaksh

1998/029: Parametric Distributional Flexibility and Conditional Variance Models with an Application to Hourly Exchange Rates

Jeanette Lye

1998/028: Dollarization of Financial Intermediation: Causes and Policy Implications

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Alain Ize

1998/027: Post Stabilization Inflation Dynamics in Slovenia

Kevin Ross

1998/026: Fiscal Sustainability with Non-Renewable Resources

Nigel Chalk

1998/025: Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies

International Monetary Fund

1998/024: The Statistical Measurement of Financial Derivatives

Robert Heath

1998/023: The Nonmonetary Determinants of Inflation: A Panel Data Study

Carlo Cottarelli

1998/022: Opening Up and Geographic Diversification of Trade in Transition Economies

Oleh Havrylyshyn and Hassan Al-Atrash

1998/021: Monetary Policy with a Convex Phillips Curve and Asymmetric Loss

Demosthenes Tambakis

1998/020: Poverty, Income Distribution, and Economic Policy in the Philippines

Philip Gerson

1998/019: Financial Sector Reform and Monetary Policy in the Netherlands

Paul Hilbers

1998/018: Public Debt Indexation and Denomination: The Case of Brazil

Ilan Goldfajn

1998/017: Why Do Different Countries Use Different Currencies?

Narayana Kocherlakota and Thomas Krueger

1998/016: Brady Bonds and Default Probabilities

Ivailo Izvorski

1998/015: The Macroeconomic Consequences of Wage Indexation Revisited

Esteban Jadresic

1998/014: Generational Accounting for France

Ousmane Dore and Joaquim Levy

1998/013: Does the Introduction of Futures on Emerging Market Currencies Destabilize the Underlying Currencies?

Christian Jochum and Laura Kodres

1998/012: French Public Finances: Modeling Long-Term Prospects and Reform Options

Karl Habermeier and Fabrice Lenseigne

1998/011: Pension Reform in the Baltics, Russia, and other Countries of the Former Soviet Union (BRO)

International Monetary Fund

1998/010: Open Regionalism in a World of Continental Trade Blocs

Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei

1998/009: Uncertainty, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Agglomeration

Luca Ricci

1998/008: Currency Boards: The Ultimate Fix?

Atish Ghosh

1998/007: Income Inequality: Does Inflation Matter?

Ales Bulir

1998/006: How to Deal with Azerbaijan’s Oil Boom? Policy Strategies in a Resource-Rich Transition Economy

Christoph Rosenberg and Tapio Saavalainen

1998/005: Estimating Egypt’s Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate

Joannes Mongardini

1998/004: Economic Security, Private Investment, and Growth in Developing Countries

Hélène Poirson

1998/003: Exchange Rate Uncertainty in Money-Based Stabilization Programs

Rogelio Morales

1998/002: Developing Countries and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle

Romain Wacziarg and Athanasios Vamvakidis

1998/001: The Impact of Fiscal Policy Variables on Output Growth

Philip Gerson

1997/182: Winner-Loser Reversals in National Stock Market Indices: Can they Be Explained?

Anthony Richards

1997/181: Empirical Determinants of Household Saving: Evidence From OECD Countries

Tim Callen and Christian Thimann

1997/180: Evolution of Monetary Policy Instruments in Russia

Tomás Baliño, Jakob Horder and David Hoelscher

1997/179: A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ian Lienert and Jitendra Modi

1997/178: Some Issues in the Design of Monetary Instruments for the Operation of European Economic and Monetary Union

Paul Hilbers, Arto Kovanen and Charles Enoch

1997/177: IMF Estimates of Potential Output: Theory and Practice

Paula De Masi

1997/176: Is the Exchange Rate a Shock Absorber? the Case of Sweden

Alun Thomas

1997/175: The Capital Structure of Listed Companies in Poland

Qaizar Hussain and Eugeniy Nivorozhkin

1997/174: Money, Wages and Inflation in Middle-Income Developing Countries

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Alexander Hoffmaister

1997/173: Vertical Tax Externalities in the Theory of Fiscal Federalism

Michael Keen

1997/172: International Evidenceon the Determinants of Trade Dynamics

Eswar Prasad and Jeffery Gable

1997/171: The Bank of Canada's Monetary Policy Framework: Have Recent Changes Enhanced Central Bank Credibility?

Takatoshi Ito and Brenda Gonzalez-Hermosillo

1997/170: An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Inflation in Turkey

Laura Papi and G. Lim

1997/169: Investment, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility in Ghana

Catherine Pattillo

1997/168: Sharp Reductions in Current Account Deficits: An Empirical Analysis

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Assaf Razin

1997/167: Regional Integration and Baltic Trade and Investment Performance

Robert Sharer

1997/166: Risk Management of Sovereign Assets and Liabilities

Marcel Cassard and D. Folkerts-Landau