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1997/048: Modeling the World Economic Outlook At the IMF: A Historical Review

James Boughton

1997/047: Intra-Industry Trade of Arab Countries: An Indicator of Potential Competitiveness

Peter Kunzel and Oleh Havrylyshyn

1997/046: The Effect of Expected Effective Corporate Tax Rates on Incremental Financing Decisions

Reint Gropp

1997/045: The Indonesian Financial System: Its Contribution to Economic Performance, and Key Policy Issues

John Montgomery

1997/044: Aspects of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Under Exchange Rate Targeting: The Case of France

Joaquim Levy and Ioannis Halikias

1997/043: The Effect of Globalization on Wages in the Advanced Economies

Phillip Swagel and Matthew Slaughter

1997/042: Deindustrialization: Causes and Implications

Ramana Ramaswamy and Bob Rowthorn

1997/041: A Provincial View of Economic Integration

Michael Klein and Tamim Bayoumi

1997/040: Bank Concentration and the Supply of Credit in Argentina

Gustavo Cañonero

1997/039: Foreign Exchange Risk Premium: Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Evidence From Italian Data

Lorenzo Giorgianni

1997/038: The Effects of Forward-Versus Backward-Looking Wage Indexationon Price Stabilization Programs

Joe Crowley

1997/037: International Labor Standards and International Trade

Stephen Golub

1997/036: Financial Liberalization and Money Demand in Asean Countries: Implications for Monetary Policy

Robert Dekle and Mahmood Pradhan

1997/035: Inflation Targeting in Practice

Guy Debelle

1997/034: Monetary Policy and Leading Indicators of Inflation in Sweden

Josef Baumgartner, Göran Zettergren and Ramana Ramaswamy

1997/033: The Effect of Increasing Government Employment on Growth: Some Evidence from Africa

James Gordon

1997/032: Bank Credit in Argentina in the Aftermath of the Mexican Crisis: Supply or Demand Constrained?

Luis Catão

1997/031: Aspects of Fiscal Performance in Some Transition Economies Under Fund-Supported Programs

Willem Buiter

1997/030: Designing a Tax Administration Reform Strategy: Experiences and Guidelines

Katherine Baer and Carlos Silvani

1997/029: International Currencies and Endogenous Enforcement: An Empirical Analysis

Roohi Prem

1997/028: Market Information and Signaling in Central Bank Operations, or, How Often Should a Central Bank Intervene?

International Monetary Fund

1997/027: Recent Export Credit Market Developments

International Monetary Fund

1997/026: Informational Efficiency, Interest Rate Variability, and Central Bank Operations

International Monetary Fund

1997/025: The Tax Treatment of Government Bonds

John Norregaard

1997/024: Debt Relief for Low-Income Countries and the HIPC Initiative

Kamau Thugge and Anthony Boote

1997/023: Possible Effects of European Monetary Union on Switzerland: A Case Study of Policy Dilemmas Caused by Low Inflation and the Nominal Interest Rate Floor

Douglas Laxton and Eswar Prasad

1997/022: Broad Money Demand and Monetary Policy in Tunisia

Volker Treichel

1997/021: What Determines Real Exchange Rates? The Long and Short of it

Ronald MacDonald

1997/020: Fiscal Policy Management in an Open Capital Regime

Peter Heller

1997/019: Cyclical Effects of the Composition of Government Purchases

Jahangir Aziz and Luc Leruth

1997/018: The Reform of the Pension System in Italy

A. Javier Hamann

1997/017: Phillips Curves, Phillips Lines and the Unemplyment Costs of Overheating

Douglas Laxton and Peter Clark

1997/016: Policy Implications of "Second-Generation" Crisis Models

Nancy Marion and Robert Flood

1997/015: Stock Market Equilibrium and Macroeconomic Fundamentals

Lamin Leigh

1997/014: Financial innovations Involving the Greek Drachma

E. Gatzonas and Michael Papaioannou

1997/013: Patterns of Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: A Theoretical Perspective

Zhaohui Chen and Mohsin Khan

1997/012: The Rationale and Design of Inflation-Indexed Bonds

Robert Price

1997/011: Towards a Market Economy: Structures of Governance

Pierre Dhonte and Ishan Kapur

1997/010: From Generosity to Sustainability: The Austrian Pension System and Options for its Reform

Christian Thimann and Manfred Koch

1997/009: Are Business Cycles Different in Asia and Latin America?

Alexander Hoffmaister and Jorge Roldos

1997/008: External Stability Under Alternative Nominal Exchange Rate Anchors: An Application to the GCC Countries

Zubair Iqbal and S. Erbas

1997/007: The Exchange Rate in a Dynamic-Optimizing Current Account Model with Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation

Robert Kollman

1997/006: Long: Horizon Exchange Rate Predictability?

Lorenzo Giorgianni and Jeremy Berkowitz

1997/005: Adjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative

Susan Fennell, Patricia Alonso-Gamo and Khaled Sakr

1997/004: Improving India’s Saving Performance

Martin Mühleisen

1997/003: Do Labor Market Policies and Growth Fundamentals Matter for Income Inequality in Oecd Countries? Some Empirical Evidence

Patrick Van Houdt

1997/002: Labor Market Adjustment in Canada and the United States

Alun Thomas and Eswar Prasad

1997/001: Fiscal Imbalances, Capital Inflows, and the Real Exchange Rate: The Case of Turkey

E. Ucer, Christopher McDermott and Pierre-Richard Agénor

1996/143: Union Behavior, Industry Rents, and Optimal Policies

Phillip Swagel

1996/142: Banking System Fragility: Likelihood Versus Timing of Failure: An Application to the Mexican Financial Crisis

Robert Billings, Brenda Gonzalez-Hermosillo and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

1996/141: Globalization, Tax Competition and the Future of Tax Systems

Vito Tanzi

1996/140: Government Debt, Life-Cycle Income and Liquidity Constrains: Beyond Approximate Ricardian Equivalence

Steven Symansky, Douglas Laxton and Hamid Faruqee

1996/139: Social and Political Factors in a Model of Endogenous Economic Growth and Distribution: An Application to the Philippines

Delano Villanueva

1996/138: Disinflation in Transition Economies: The Role of Relative Price Adjustment

Sharmini Coorey, Mauro Mecagni and Erik Offerdal

1996/137: Capital Inflows and the Real Exchange Rate: Analytical Framework and Econometric Evidence

Pierre-Richard Agénor and Alexander Hoffmaister

1996/136: Mobilization of Saving in Developing Countries: The Case If the Islamic Republic of Iran

Mohamed El-Erian and Manmohan Kumar

1996/135: A Credit Crunch? a Case Study of Finland in the Aftermath of the Banking Crisis

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

1996/134: Financial Sector Reform and Banking Crises in the Baltic Countries

International Monetary Fund

1996/133: EMU and Long Interest Rates in Germany

Jeromin Zettelmeyer

1996/132: Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Business Cycle: Evidence From Japan

Eswar Prasad and Bankim Chadha

1996/131: Capital Mobility and Exchange Market Intervention in Developing Countries

Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Donald Mathieson and Michael Dooley

1996/130: National Accounts in Transition Countries: Distortions and Biases

Adriaan Bloem, Paul Cotterell and Terry Gigantes

1996/129: Business Cycle in Czechoslovakia Under Central Planning: Were Credit Shocks Causing it?

Ales Bulir

1996/128: The Role of the Prudential Supervision and Financial Restructuring of Banks During Transition to Indirect Instruments of Monetary Control

International Monetary Fund

1996/127: The Brady-Euro Yield Differential Debate: Why Arbitrage is Infeasible

Federico Kaune Moreno and Elaine Buckberg

1996/126: Health and Education Expenditures in Russia, the Baltic States, and the Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Mark Horton

1996/125: Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Economies

László Halpern and Charles Wyplosz

1996/124: Investment and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

Amer Bisat, Mohamed El-Erian, Mahmoud El-Gamal and Francesco Mongelli

1996/123: Issues and New Directions in Public Expenditure Management

A. Premchand

1996/122: Accountability and Transparency in the Public Sector: The New Zealand Experience

M. Cangiano

1996/121: Wage Indexation and Macroeconomic Stability: The Gray-Fischer Theorem Revisted

Esteban Jadresic

1996/120: The Taxation Implicit in Two-Tiered Exchange Rate Systems

Harry Huizinga

1996/119: Fiscal Policy and Long-Run Growth

Vito Tanzi and Howell Zee

1996/118: Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Equilibrium Discount Factors

Charles Kramer

1996/117: Race to the Center: Competition for the Nikkei 225 Futures Trade

Takatoshi Ito and Wen-Ling Lin

1996/116: Growth Accounting and Growth Processes

Jahangir Aziz

1996/115: Additional Evidenceon Ems Interest Rate Linkages

John Thornton and Alicia García-Herrero

1996/114: Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Spain

Zuzana Murgasova

1996/113: Japan's Medium: and Long-Term Fiscal Challenges

K. Okamura

1996/112: Macroeconomic Experiences of the Transition Economies in Indochina

Chi Pham, Ajai Chopra, John Dodsworth and Hisanobu Shishido

1996/111: Is the Phillips Curve Really a Curve? Some Evidence for Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Douglas Laxton and Guy Debelle

1996/110: Current Account Sustainability: Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences

Assaf Razin and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

1996/109: Inflation, Nominal Interest Rates, and the Variability of Output

Bankim Chadha and Daniel Tsiddon

1996/108: Monetary Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Lessons After Half a Decade of Transition

David Begg

1996/107: Domestic, Foreign or Common Shocks?

Stefania Fabrizio and Humberto Lopez

1996/106: A Robust and Efficient Method for Solving Nonlinear Rational Expectations Models

Michel Juillard and Douglas Laxton

1996/105: Investment in Inflationary Economies

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

1996/104: Noise Traders and Herding Behavior

Lee Redding

1996/103: Improving the Efficiency of the U.S. CPI

Paul Armknecht Jr.

1996/102: Erosion of Expenditure Management System: An Unintended Consequence of Donor Approaches

A. Premchand

1996/101: Privatization and Restructuring: An Incomplete-Contract Approach

Dieter Bös

1996/100: The Feldstein-Horioka Test of International Capital Mobility: Is it Feasible?

W. Jos Jansen

1996/099: Gender Bias in Tax Systems

Janet Stotsky

1996/098: The Effects of Corruption on Growth, Investment, and Government Expenditure

Paolo Mauro

1996/097: Income Distribution and Macroeconomic Performance in the United States

Jeffrey Cole and Christopher Towe

1996/096: The Social Safety Net in Albania

Natasha Koliadina

1996/095: Currency Speculation and the Optimum Control of Bank Lending in Singapore Dollar: A Case for Partial Liberalization

Kenneth Chan and Kee Ngiam

1996/094: Pension Reform, Financial Market Development, and Economic Growth: Preliminary Evidence From Chile

Robert Holzmann

1996/093: Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labor Market Reform

Dennis Snower and David Coe

1996/092: Regional Growth in Mexico: 1970-1993

V. Juan-Ramon and Luis Rivera-Batiz