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6310: Monetary policy and macroprudential regulation: whither emerging markets

Otaviano Canuto and Matheus Cavallari

6309: Trade costs in the developing world: 1995 - 2010

Jean-François Arvis, Yann Duval, Ben Shepherd and Chorthip Utoktham

6308: Incentive audits: a new approach to financial regulation

Martin Cihak, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and R. Barry Johnston

6307: Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

6306: Reinsurance as capital optimization tool under Solvency II

Eugene Gurenko and Alexander Itigin

6305: Small is beautiful, at least in high-income democracies: the distribution of policy-making responsibility, electoral accountability, and incentives for rent extraction

Alexander Hamilton

6304: Inequality of opportunity, income inequality and economic mobility: some international comparisons

Paolo Brunori, Francisco Ferreira and Vito Peragine

6303: Real-time macro monitoring and fiscal policy

Eduardo Ley and Florian Misch

6302: Brazilian exports: climbing down a competitiveness cliff

Otaviano Canuto, Matheus Cavallari and Jose Guilherme Reis

6301: Determinants of export survival in the Lao PDR

Liviu Stirbat, Richard Record and Konesawang Nghardsaysone

6300: Saving and growth in Sri Lanka

Constantino Hevia and Norman Loayza

6299: Insurance risk transfer and categorization of reinsurance contracts

Eugene Gurenko, Alexander Itigin and Renate Wiechert

6298: On the fungibility of spending and earnings -- evidence from rural China and Tanzania

Luc Christiaensen and Lei Pan

6297: Capacity constraints and public financial management in small Pacific Island countries

Tobias A. Haque, David S. Knight and Dinuk S. Jayasuriya

6296: Learning from the experiments that never happened: lessons from trying to conduct randomized evaluations of matching grant programs in Africa

Francisco Campos, Aidan Coville, Ana Fernandes, Markus Goldstein and David McKenzie

6295: Are the benefits of export support durable ? evidence from Tunisia

Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon and Aaditya Mattoo

6294: Climate change policies and employment in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Isil Oral, Indhira Santos and Fan Zhang

6293: Does sharecropping affect productivity and long-term investment ? evidence from West Bengal's tenancy reforms

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Vandana Yadav

6292: Rethinking the form and function of cities in post-Soviet countries

Souleymane Coulibaly

6291: Incomplete, slow, and asymmetric price transmission in ten product markets of Bolivia

Gonzalo Varela

6290: The foundations of financial inclusion: understanding ownership and use of formal accounts

Franklin Allen, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper and Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

6289: How does deposit insurance affect bank risk ? evidence from the recent crisis

Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Min Zhu

6288: The evolution and impact of bank regulations

James Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine

6287: Split decisions: family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work

Michael Clemens and Erwin R. Tiongson

6286: Bank regulation and supervision around the world: a crisis update

Martin Cihak, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria and Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou

6285: Entrepreneurship training and self-employment among university graduates: evidence from a randomized trial in Tunisia

Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita Almeida, Rebekka Grun and Mahdi Barouni

6284: Foreign investment in local currency bonds -- considerations for emerging market public debt managers

Alex Sienaert

6283: Stuck in the middle ? human capital development and economic growth in Malaysia and Thailand

Emmanuel Jimenez, Vy Nguyen and Harry Patrinos

6282: MDGs that nudge: the Millennium Development Goals, popular mobilization, and the post-2015 development framework

Varun Gauri

6281: Emissions trading with offset markets and free quota allocations

Knut Einar Rosendahl and Jon Strand

6280: Productivity growth and job creation in the development process of industrial clusters

Tetsushi Sonobe, Yuki Higuchi and Keijiro Otsuka

6279: Networks, firms, and trade

Paulo Bastos and Joana Silva

6278: Perils of simulation: parallel streams and the case of stata's rnormal command

Owen Ozier

6277: Sea-level rise and coastal wetlands: impacts and costs

Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta and Benoit Laplante

6276: Labor market institutions: a review of the literature

Gordon Betcherman

6275: The World Bank and governance: the Bank's efforts to help developing countries build state capacity

Alain de Janvry and Jean-Jacques Dethier

6274: Infrastructure policy: basic design options

Michael Klein

6273: Replicating replication: due diligence in Roodman and Morduch's replication of Pitt and Khandker (1998)

Mark Pitt and Shahidur Khandker

6272: Evaluating workfare when the work is unpleasant: evidence for India's national rural employment guarantee scheme

Arthur Alik-Lagrange and Martin Ravallion

6271: Is India's manufacturing sector moving away from cities ?

Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover and William Kerr

6270: Gross inflows gone wild: gross capital inflows, credit booms and crises

Cesar Calderon and Megumi Kubota

6269: Empowering women: evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan

Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov

6268: What drives short-run labor market volatility in offshoring industries ? evidence from northern Mexico during 2007-2009

David Kaplan, Daniel Lederman and Raymond Robertson

6267: Ahmedabad: more but different government for"slum free"and livable cities

Patricia Clarke Annez, Alain Bertaud, Marie-Agnes Bertaud, Bijal Bhatt, Chirayu Bhatt, Bimal Patel and Vidyadhar Phatak

6266: Monitoring export vulnerability to changes in growth rates of major global markets

Claire H. Hollweg, Daniel Lederman and José-Daniel Reyes

6265: Foreign firm characteristics, absorptive capacity and the institutional framework: the role of mediating factors for FDI spillovers in low- and middle-income countries

Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler

6264: United we stand divided we fall: maternal social participation and children's nutritional status in Peru

Marta Favara

6263: Commercialization of publicly funded research and development (R&D) in Russia: scaling up the emergence of spinoff companies

Juan Julio Gutierrez and Paulo Correa

6262: The cost structure of the clean development mechanism

Shaikh M. Rahman, Donald Larson and Ariel Dinar

6261: Agricultural trade: what matters in the Doha round ?

David Laborde Debucquet and Will Martin

6260: Visualizing Uncertainties, or how Albert Hirschman and the World Bank disagreed on project appraisal and development approaches

Michele Alacevich

6259: Global income inequality by the numbers: in history and now --an overview--

Branko Milanovic

6258: What does debt relief do for development ? evidence from India's bailout program for highly-indebted rural households

Martin Kanz

6257: Promoting handwashing behavior in Peru: the effect of large-scale mass-media and community level interventions

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler and Alexandra Orsola-Vidal

6256: The great recession and the future of cities

Jean-Jacques Dethier and Curtis Morrill

6255: The surprising effects of the great recession: losers and winners in Thailand in 2008-2009

Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur Khandker

6254: Income risk, income mobility and welfare

Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna and William Maloney

6253: There goes gravity: how eBay reduces trade costs

Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarreaga, Simon Schropp and Pierre-Louis Vézina

6252: Tax capacity and tax effort: extended cross-country analysis from 1994 to 2009

Tuan Minh Le, Blanca Moreno-Dodson and Nihal Bayraktar

6251: Is better information always good news ? international corporate strategy and regulation

Markus Kitzmuller

6250: The role of sectoral growth patterns in labor market development

Francisco Javier Arias-Vazquez , Jean Lee and David Newhouse

6249: The patterns and determinants of household welfare growth in Jordan: 2002-2010

Wael Mansour

6248: Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Nora Lustig, Luis Lopez-Calva and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

6247: School quality, labor markets and human capital investments: long-term impacts of an early stage education intervention in the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi and Yanyan Liu

6246: Impacts of an early stage education intervention on students'learning achievement: evidence from the Philippines

Futoshi Yamauchi and Yanyan Liu

6245: Drivers of entrepreneurship and post-entry performance: microeconomic evidence from advanced and developing countries

Marco Vivarelli

6244: Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing: an application to occupational allocation in Africa

Paolo Falco, William Maloney, Bob Rijkers and Mauricio Sarrias

6243: Development of biofuels in China: technologies, economics and policies

Shiyan Chang, Govinda Timilsina, Zhang Xiliang and Lili Zhao

6242: Tools for assessing the costs and benefits of green growth: the U.S. and Mexico

Winston Harrington, Richard Morgenstern and Velez-Lopez. Daniel

6241: Impact of behavioral issues on green growth policies and weather-related disaster reduction in developing countries

Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

6240: Psychology and behavioral economics lessons for the design of a green growth strategy

Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson

6239: The role of technological change in green growth

David Popp

6238: Green industrial policy: trade and theory

Larry Karp and Megan Stevenson

6237: The cost of adjustment to green growth policies: lessons from trade adjustment costs

Guido Porto

6236: Trade in a'green growth'development strategy: global scale issues and challenges

Jaime de Melo

6235: International trade and green growth

Brian Copeland

6234: Introducing behavioral change in transportation into energy/economy/environment models

Andreas Schafer

6233: Ecosystem services and green growth

Jeffrey Vincent

6232: Natural capital, ecological scarcity and rural poverty

Edward Barbier

6231: Is green growth good for the poor ?

Stefan Dercon

6230: Green growth -- lessons from growth theory

Sjak Smulders and Cees Withagen

6229: Exporter dynamics database

Tolga Cebeci, Ana Fernandes, Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

6228: What explains big gender disparities in India ? local industrial structures and female entrepreneurship

Ejaz Ghani, William Kerr and Stephen O'Connell

6227: Oil price risks and pump price adjustments

Masami Kojima

6226: Innocent bystanders: how foreign uncertainty shocks harm exporters

Daria Taglioni and Veronika Zavacka

6225: Determinants of Tanzanian export prices

Valentina Rollo

6224: Facilitating international production networks: the role of trade logistics

Daniel Saslavsky and Ben Shepherd

6223: Making up people -- the effect of identity on preferences and performance in a modernizing society

Karla Hoff and Priyanka Pandey

6222: Export superstars

Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola

6221: Demystifying China's fiscal stimulus

Shahrokh Fardoust, Justin Lin and Xubei Luo

6220: Weathering the storm: responses by Cambodian firms to the global financial crisis

Stephane Guimbert and Remco Oostendorp

6219: An analysis of physical and monetary losses of environmental health and natural resources in India

Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya, Aarsi Sagar and Elena Strukova

6218: Sovereign defaults and expropriations: empirical regularities

Maya Eden, Aart Kraay and Rong Qian

6217: Poverty in Mozambique: new evidence from recent household surveys

Federica Alfani, Carlo Azzarri, Marco d'Errico and Vasco Molini

6216: An exploration of the link between development, economic growth, and natural risk

Stephane Hallegatte

6215: Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior

Javier Baez, Adriana Camacho, Emily Conover and Roman Zarate

6214: Weather and child health in rural Nigeria

Mariano Rabassa, Emmanuel Skoufias and Hanan Jacoby

6213: Demand-side financing for sexual and reproductive health services in low and middle-income countries: a review of the evidence

Sophie Witter and Aparnaa Somanathan

6212: Vyaghranomics in space and time: estimating habitat threats for Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan and Sumatran tigers

Susmita Dasgupta, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft and David Wheeler

6211: Assessing the investment climate for climate investments: a comparative framework for clean energy investments in South Asia in a global context

Muthukumara S. Mani