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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

Armando Méndez 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 Brixiova 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