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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

1997/165: Private Investment and Endogenous Growth: Evidence From Cameroon

Dhaneshwar Ghura

1997/164: Speculative Attacks, Forward Market Intervention and the Classic Bear Squeeze

Subir Lall

1997/163: Policy Reform As Collective Action

Omotunde Johnson

1997/162: Payment Arrears in the Gas and Electric Power Sectors of the Russian Federation and Ukraine

Emine Gürgen and Hrant Bagratian

1997/161: Lessons From Systemic Bank Restructuring: A Survey of 24 Countries

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu and Claudia Dziobek

1997/160: The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the European Union: What Are the Differences?

Ramana Ramaswamy and Torsten Sloek

1997/159: Are Currency Crises Predictable?

Rodrigo Valdés and Ilan Goldfajn

1997/158: Prices in the Transition: Ten Stylized Facts

Paula De Masi and Vincent Koen

1997/157: Sequencing Capital Account Liberalization: Lessons From the Experiences in Chile, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand

Claudia Echeverria, Salim Darbar and R. Johnston

1997/156: The CFA Franc Zone and the EMU

Michel Galy and Michael Hadjimichael

1997/155: Decentralization and Macroeconomic Management

Teresa Ter-Minassian

1997/154: Wholesale Payments and Financial Discipline, Efficiency, and Liquidity

D. Folkerts-Landau

1997/153: The Efficiency of Government Expenditure: Experiences From Africa

Keiko Honjo, Marijn Verhoeven and Sanjeev Gupta

1997/152: How Macroeconomic Factors Affect Income Distribution: The Cross-Country Evidence

Michael Sarel

1997/151: Towards a System of Multilateral Unit Labor Cost-Based Competitiveness Indicators for Advanced, Developing, and Transition Countries

Anthony Turner and Stephen Golub

1997/150: Cooperation, Emergence of the Economic Agency Role of Government, and Governance

Omotunde Johnson

1997/149: Competitiveness in Transition Economies: What Scope for Real Appreciation?

Kornelia Krajnyak and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

1997/148: Policy Reform, Adjustment Costs, and Investment: With Activity of Local Investors as a Signal

Omotunde Johnson

1997/147: Nominal Income and the Inflation-Growth Divide

Sheetal Chand

1997/146: Sources of Debt Accumulation in a Small Open Economy

Abdelhak Senhadji

1997/145: Determinants of Inflation in Mozambique

Angel Ubide

1997/144: Liquid Asset Ratios and Financial Sector Reform

Anne Gulde

1997/143: Aging in the Asian “Tigers”: Challenges for Fiscal Policy

Peter Heller

1997/142: Stylized Facts of Government Finance in the G-7

Riccardo Fiorito

1997/141: Reform of the Canada Pension Plan: Analytical Considerations

Charles Kramer and Yutong Li

1997/140: Banking Crises in Latin America in the 1990's: Lessons From Argentina, Paraguay, and Venezuela

Alicia García-Herrero

1997/139: Corruption, Public Investment, and Growth

Vito Tanzi and Hamid Davoodi

1997/138: Transparency and Ambiguity in Central Bank Safety Net Operations

Charles Enoch

1997/137: Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment Dynamics in Transition Economies

Pietro Garibaldi and Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski

1997/136: Implications for Savings of Aging in the Asian “Tigers”

Steven Symansky and Peter Heller

1997/135: Macroeconomic Cycles in China

Stefan Oppers

1997/134: External Finance and Foreign Debt in Central and Eastern European Countries

Stefano Manzocchi

1997/133: Fiscal Policy and the Predictability of Exchange Rate Collapse

Betty Daniel

1997/132: Time-Series Estimation of Structural Import Demand Equations: A Cross-Country Analysis

Abdelhak Senhadji

1997/131: Can Switching Between Inflationary Regimes Explain Fluctuations in Real Interest Rates?

Michael Bleaney

1997/130: The Scope for Inflation Targeting in Developing Countries

Miguel Savastano, Paul Masson and Sunil Sharma

1997/129: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: The Chinese System in Perspective

Vivek Arora and John Norregaard

1997/128: Cyclical Fluctuations in Brazil's Real Exchange Rate: The Role of Domestic and External Factors

Alexander Hoffmaister, Carlos Medeiros and Pierre-Richard Agénor

1997/127: Contagion and Volatility with Imperfect Credit Markets

Joshua Aizenman and Pierre-Richard Agénor

1997/126: Exchange Rate Volatility, Pricing to Market and Trade Smoothing

Hamid Faruqee and Peter Clark

1997/125: Globalization and Growth Prospect in Arab Countries

Patricia Alonso-Gamo

1997/124: Monetary Impact of a Banking Crisis and the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Alicia García-Herrero

1997/123: Discrepancies Between Quarterly GDP Estimates

Adriaan Bloem

1997/122: Shock Versus Gradualism in Models of Rational Expectations: The Case of Trade Liberalization

Leonardo Auernheimer and Susan George

1997/121: Derivatives Effect on Monetary Policy Transmission

Coenraad Vrolijk

1997/120: Income Distribution and Social Expenditure in Brazil

Benedict Clements

1997/119: Exports, Inflation, and Growth

Thorvaldur Gylfason

1997/118: Policy Complementarities and the Washington Consensus

Jahangir Aziz and Robert Westcott

1997/117: Determinants of Stock Prices: The Case of Zimbabwe

T. Oyama

1997/116: The Impact of Trade Prices on Employment and Wages in the United States

Dalia Hakura

1997/115: Capital Flows to Brazil: The Endogeneity of Capital Controls

Eliane Cardoso and Ilan Goldfajn

1997/114: The Changing Role of the State in the Economy: A Historical Perspective

Vito Tanzi

1997/113: The Insurance Role of Social Security: Theory and Lessons for Policy Reform

Victor Valdivia

1997/112: Investing U.S. Social Security Trust Fund Assets in Private Securities

Michael Leidy

1997/111: Japan's Restrictive System of Trade and Payments: Operation, Effectiveness, and Liberalization, 1950-1964

Shinji Takagi

1997/110: Saving in Southeast Asia and Latin America Compared: Searching for Policy Lessons

Christian Thimann and Anuradha Dayal-Gulati

1997/109: Estimating the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate: An Application to Finland

Tarhan Feyzioglu

1997/108: Explaining and Forecasting the Velocity of Money in Transition Economies, with Special Reference to the Baltics, Russia and other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

International Monetary Fund