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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

1996/091: Unemployment in Greece: A Survey of the Issues

Dimitri Demekas and Zenon Kontolemis

1996/090: Stock-Market Equilibrium and the Dividend Yield

Charles Kramer

1996/089: How Accurate Are the Imf's Short-Term Forecasts? Another Examination of the World Economic Outlook

Michael Artis

1996/088: Macroeconomic Conditions and Pressures for Protection Under Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws: Empirical Evidence from the United States

Michael Leidy

1996/087: U.S. Private Saving and the Tax Treatment of IRA/401(k)s: A Re-examination Using Household Survey Data

Alun Thomas and Christopher Towe

1996/086: Capital Flows in a Transitional Economy and the Sterilization Dilemma: The Hungarian Case

Pierre Siklos

1996/085: Are Australia's Current Account Deficits Excessive?

Christopher McDermott and Paul Cashin

1996/084: Policy towards Commodity Shocks in Developing Countries

Jan Willem Gunning and Paul Collier

1996/083: Deposit Insurance: Obtaining the Benefits and Avoiding the Pitfalls

G. Garcia

1996/082: Volatility of Oil Prices

Peter Wickham

1996/081: Currency Unions, Economic Fluctuations, and Adjustment: Some New Empirical Evidence

Eswar Prasad and Tamim Bayoumi

1996/080: Deja Vu All Over Again? the Mexican Crisis and the Stabilization of Uruguay in the 1970's

Mario Bléjer and Graciana Castillo

1996/079: The Efficiency of VAT Implementation: A Comparative Study of Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition

William Jack

1996/078: Budget Processes and Commitment to Fiscal Discipline

International Monetary Fund

1996/077: The Role of Labor Market Rigidities During the Transition: Lessons From Poland

Thierry Pujol

1996/076: Generational Accounts, Aggregate Savings, and Intergenerational Distribution

Willem Buiter

1996/075: Why is China Growing so Fast?

Mohsin Khan and Zuliu Hu

1996/074: Pension Reform in Belgium

International Monetary Fund

1996/073: The Case for Accrual Recording in the IMF's Government Finance Statistics System

Don Efford

1996/072: The Effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)on National Fiscal Sustainability

Francesco Mongelli

1996/071: Recent Trade Policies and An Approach to Further Reform in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Michael Leidy and Ali Ibrahim

1996/070: Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries: Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

1996/069: Does the Gap Model Work in Asia?

Christopher McDermott and David Coe

1996/068: FEERs and Uncertainty: Confidence Intervals for the Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rate of the Canadian Dollar

Charles Kramer

1996/067: Equivalence of the Production and Consumption Methods of Calcuting the Value-Added Tax Base: Application in Zambia

Anthony Pellechio and Catharine Hill

1996/066: Macroeconomic Implications of Money Laundering

Peter Quirk

1996/065: Inflation Targeting: Theory and Policy Implications

J. Green

1996/064: Worldwide Military Spending, 1990-1995

Jerald Schiff, Benedict Clements and Sanjeev Gupta

1996/063: Bank-By-Bank Credit Ceilings: Issues and Experiences

Mitra Farahbaksh and Gabriel Sensenbrenner

1996/062: Broad Money Demand and Financial Liberalization in Greece

Sunil Sharma and Neil Ericsson

1996/061: Fiscal Transition in Countries of the Former Soviet Union: An Interim Assessment

Jeffrey Davis and A Cheasty

1996/060: Fiscal Rules and the Budget Process

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

1996/059: An Empirical Analysis of Fiscal Adjustments

Robert Westcott and Christopher McDermott

1996/058: What Determines the Current Account? a Cross-Sectional and Panel Approach

Hamid Faruqee and Guy Debelle

1996/057: Moderate Inflation in Poland: A Real Story

Thierry Pujol and Mark Griffiths

1996/056: Multiple Exchange Rates, Fiscal Deficits and Inflation Dynamics

Vincent Bodart

1996/055: Money Laundering and the International Financial System

Vito Tanzi

1996/054: Have North-South Growth Linkages Changed?

Alexander Hoffmaister, Mahmood Pradhan and Hossein Samiei

1996/053: Implications of a Surge in Capital Inflows: Available tools and Consequences for the Conduct of Monetary Policy

Jang-Yung Lee

1996/052: Budget Deficits and Budget Institutions

Alberto Alesina and Roberto Perotti

1996/051: Credit and Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization

May Khamis

1996/050: Estimation of the Near Unit Root Model of Real Exchange Rates

Christopher McDermott

1996/049: Infrequent Large Nominal Devaluations and their Impacton the Futures Prices for Foreign Exchange in Brazil

International Monetary Fund

1996/048: Wage Indexation and the Cost of Disinflation

Esteban Jadresic

1996/047: R&D Spillovers and Global Growth

Tamim Bayoumi, Elhanan Helpman and David Coe

1996/046: The Output-Inflation Nexus in Ukraine: Is there a Trade-Off?

Atish Ghosh

1996/045: Taxation and Unemployment

Howell Zee

1996/044: Inflation Targeting in the United Kingdom: Information Content of Financial and Monetary Variables

Josef Baumgartner and Ramana Ramaswamy

1996/043: German Unification: What Have We Learned From Multi-Country Models?

Joseph Gagnon, Paul Masson and Warwick McKibbin

1996/042: Long-Term Trends in the Saving-Investment Balance and Persistent Current Account Surpluses in a Small Open Economy: The Case of the Netherlands

Ioannis Halikias

1996/041: Mexico'S Currency Risk Premia in 1992-1994: A Closer Look At the Interest Rate Differentials

Alejandro Werner

1996/040: Transfers, Social Safety Nets, and Economic Growth

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

1996/039: Currency Convertibility and the Fund: Review and Prognosis

Vicente Galbis

1996/038: Rational Liquidity Crises in the Sovereign Debt Market: In Search of a Theory

Enrica Detragiache

1996/037: The Reform of Wholesale Payment Systems and its Impacton Financial Markets

Dirk Schoenmaker, Peter Garber and D. Folkerts-Landau

1996/036: Italian Unemployment 1975-1995: An Analysis of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies Using Evidence From a Structural Vector Autoregression

Charalambos Christofides

1996/035: A Destination VAT for CIS Trade

Victoria Perry, Katherine Baer and Emil Sunley

1996/034: Have Institutional Investors Destabilized Emerging Markets?

Brian Aitken

1996/033: Fiscal Balance During Inflation, Disinflation, and Immigration: Policy Lessons

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka