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1347: Antitrust-based remedies and dumping in international trade

Bernard Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis

1346: Linking competition and trade policies in Central and Eastern European countries

Bernard Hoekman, Petros C. Mavroidis and Dec

1345: The decentralization of public services: lessons from the theory of the firm

Jaques Cremer, Antonio Estache, Paul Seabright and Dec

1344: Which foreign investors worry about foreign exchange risk in South Asia and why?

Eric Bond, Antonio Estache and Dec

1343: Strategic interdependence in the East-West gas trade: a hierarchical Stackelberg game approach

Wafik Grais, Kangbin Zheng and Dec

1342: Winners and losers in transition: returns to education, experience, and gender in Slovenia

Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

1341: Explaining Pakistan's high growth performance over the past two decades: can it be sustained ?

Sadiq Ahmed

1340: Opportunity cost and prudentiality: an analysis of futures clearinghouse behavior

Herbert L. Baer, Virginia G. France and James Moser

1339: China's emergence: prospects, opportunities, and challenges

Andrea Boltho, Uri Dadush, Dong He and Shigeru Otsubo

1338: Commodity exports and the adding up problem in developing countries: trade, investment, and lending policy

Maurice Schiff

1337: The countrywide effects of aid

Howard White, Joke Luttik and Dec

1336: Modernizing payment systems in emerging economies

Robert Listfield and Fernando Montes-Negret

1335: Labor regulations and the informal economy

Norman Loayza

1334: Taxation, public services, and the informal sector in a model of endogenous growth

Juan Braun and Norman Loayza

1333: A test of the international convergence hypothesis using panel data

Norman Loayza and Dec

1332: Poverty and household size

Peter Lanjouw, Martin Ravallion and Dec

1331: Russian Federation - The myth of monopoly: a new view of industrial structure in Russia

Annette Brown, Barry W. Ickes and Randi Ryterman

1330: Revenue uncertainty and the choice of tax instrument during the transition in Eastern Europe

Delfin Go

1329: The regulation and supervision of domestic financial conglomerates

David H. Scott and Ext

1328: The use of New York cotton futures contracts to hedge cotton price risk in developing countries

Panos Varangis, Elton Thigpen, Sudhakar Satyanarayan and Dec

1327: Is the debt crisis history? Recent private capital inflows to developing countries

Michael Dooley, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Kenneth Kletzer and Dec

1326: Banks, capital markets, and corporate governance: lessons from Russia for Eastern Europe

Gerhard Pohl, Stijn Claessens and Dec

1325: The economics of research and development: how research and development capital affects production and markets and is affected by tax incentives

Anwar Shah and Dec

1324: Voucher funds in transitional economies: the Czech and Slovak experience

Robert E. Anderson

1323: Energy pricing and air pollution: econometric evidence from manufacturing in Chile and Indonesia

Gunnar Eskeland, Emmanuel Jimenez, Lili Liu and Dec

1322: Reducing regulatory barriers to private - sector participation in Latin America's water and sanitation services

Barbara Richard, Thelma Triche and Inc. Apogee Research

1321: Institutions and the East Asian miracle: asymmetric information, rent - seeking, and the deliberation council

Jose Edgardo Campos, Donald Lien and Dec

1320: Capital structures in developing countries: evidence from ten countries

Asli Demirguc - Kunt, Vojislav Maksimovic and Dec

1319: The financial system and public enterprise reform: concepts and cases

Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Ross Levine and Dec

1318: Exchange-rate-based stabilization in Argentina and Chile: a fresh look

Miguel A. Kiguel and Nissan Liviatan

1317: Estimating the efficiency gains of debt restructuring

Jeremy Bulow, Kenneth Rogoff, Ning S. Zhu, Dec, A Descri and Buyback Arrangements

1316: Preserving the CFA Zone: macroeconomic coordination after the devaluation

Shantayanan Devarajan, Michael Walton and Dec

1315: Global tradable carbon permits, participation incentives, and transfers

Bjorn Larsen and Anwar Shah

1314: The significance of the"Europe agreements"for Central European industrial exports

Bartlomiej Kaminski and Dec

1313: New estimates of total factor productivity growth for developing and industrial countries

Vikram Nehru, Ashok Dhareshwar and Dec

1312: The new wave of private capital inflows: push or pull?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Dec

1311: The supply response to exchange rate reform in sub-Saharan Africa (empirical evidence)

Mustapha Rouis, Weshah Razzak and Carlos Mollinedo

1310: China's economic reforms: pointers for other economies in transition?

Justin Lin, Fang Cai and Zhou Li

1309: Is demand for polluting goods manageable? an econometric study of car ownership and use in Mexico

Gunnar Eskeland, Tarhan N. Feyzioglu and Dec

1308: Ownership and corporate control in Poland: why state firms defied the odds

Brian Pinto and Sweder van Wijnbergen

1307: How taxation affects foreign direct investment (country - specific evidence)

Joosung Jun

1306: Capital flows and long-term equilibrium real exchange rates in Chile

Ibrahim A. Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto

1305: Information and price determination under mass privatization

Nemat Shafik

1304: Informal gold mining and mercury pollution in Brazil

Biller, Dan*DEC

1303: Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources

Scott Barret and Dec

1302: Sustainability: ethical foundations and economic properties

Geir Asheim

1301: Estimating the health effects of air pollutants: a method with an application to Jakarta

Bart Ostro

1300: Dynamic response to external shocks in classical and Keynesian economies

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Luis Servén and Dec

1299: Fiscal policy in classical and Keynesian open economies

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Luis Servén

1298: Capital goods imports, the real exchange rate, and the current account

Luis Servén

1297: How relative prices affect fuel use patterns in manufacturing: plant - level evidence from Chile

Charles C. Guo and James Tybout

1296: Earnings-related mandatory pensions: concepts for design

Salvador Valdés and Dec

1295: Why higher fiscal spending persists when a boom in primary commodities ends

Bruno Boccara and Dec

1294: Regulations, institutions, and economic performance: the political economy of the Philippines'telecommunications sector

Hadi Esfahani and Dec

1293: Product standards, imperfect competition and completion of the market in the European Union

Glenn Harrison, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr and Dec

1292: Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states

William Easterly, Martha de Melo, Gur Ofer and Dec

1291: A survey of Viet Nam's legal framework in transition

Natalie G. Lichtenstein and Dec

1290: Oil price instability, hedging, and an oil stabilization fund: the case of Venezuela

Stijn Claessens, Panos Varangis and Dec

1289: A fiscal needs approach to equalization transfers in a decentralized federation

Anwar Shah and Dec

1288: The public finance of infrastructure: issues and options

Vinaya Swaroop and Dec

1287: Unstable inflation and seignorage revenues in Latin America: How many times can the government fool people?

Jacques Morisset and Dec

1286: Economic transformation and the fiscal crisis: a critical look at the Central European experience of the 1990s

Luca Barbone, Domenico Marchetti and Dec

1285: Capital fundamentalism, economic development, and economic growth

Robert King, Ross Levine and Dec

1284: The Soviet economic decline: historical and republican data

William Easterly, Stanley Fischer and Dec

1283: Interest rates in open economies: real interest rate parity, exchange rates, and country risk in industrial and developing countries

Dipak Das Gupta, Bejoy Das Gupta and Dec

1282: Copper and the negative price of storage

Donald Larson and Dec

1281: Human and physical infrastructure: public investment and pricing policies in developing countries

Emmanuel Jimenez and Dec

1280: The economic impact of export controls: an application to Mongolian cashmere and Romanian wood products

Wendy Takacs

1279: Optimal hedging strategy revisited: acknowledging the existence of nonstationary economic timeseries

Ying Qian, Ronald Duncan and Dec

1278: The role of regulation and commitment in the development of telecommunications in Chile

Ahmed Galal and Dec

1277: Private trader response to market liberalization in Tanzania's cashew nut industry

Steven Jaffee and Dec

1276: Is there persistence in the growth of manufactured exports? Evidence from newly industrializing countries

Ashoka Mody, Kamil Yilmaz and Dec

1275: Female - headed households, poverty, and the welfare of children in urban Brazil

Ricardo Barros, Louise Fox, Rosane Mendonca and Dec

1274: The new trade theory and its relevance for developing countries

Asad Alam and Dec

1273: Desired fertility and the impact of population policies

Lant Pritchett and Dec

1272: The value of superfund cleanups: evidence from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decisions

Shreekant Gupta, George Van Houtven, Maureen Cropper and Dec

1271: Measuring the effect of external shocks and the policy response to them: empirical methodology applied to the Philippines

F. Desmond McCarthy, J. Peter Neary, Giovanni Zanalda and Dec

1270: How land-based targeting affects rural poverty

Martin Ravallion, Binayak Sen and Dec

1269: Union - nonunion wage differentials in the developing world: a case study of Mexico

Alexis Panagides, Harry Patrinos and Dec

1268: The reform of mechanisms for foreign exchange allocation: theory and lessons from sub-Saharan Africa

Eliana La Ferrara, Gabriel Castillo and John Nash

1267: The tax base in transition: the case of Bulgaria

Zeljko Bogetic and Arye Hillman

1266: An efficient frontier for international portfolios with commodity assets

Sudhakar Satyanarayan, Panos Varangis and Dec

1265: Parallel exchange rates in developing countries: lessons from eight case studies

Miguel A. Kiguel and Stephen O'Connell

1264: A rock and a hard place: the two faces of U.S. trade policy toward Korea

Joseph Finger and Dec

1263: The effects of barriers on equity investment in developing countries

Stijn Claessens, Moon-Whoan Rhee and Dec

1262: Flexibility in Sri Lanka's labor market

Martin Rama and Dec

1261: A political - economy analysis of free trade areas and customs unions

Arvind Panagariya, Ronald Findlay and Dec

1260: When is a life too costly to save?: evidence from U.S. environmental regulations

George Van Houtven, Maureen Cropper and Dec

1259: The reform of fiscal systems in developing and emerging market economies: a federalism perspective

Robin Boadway, Sandra Roberts and Anwar Shah

1258: Decentralizing infrastructure: for good or ill?

Richard Bird

1257: Old age security in transitional economies

Louise Fox

1256: World fossil fuel subsidies and global carbon emissions in a model with interfuel substitution

Bjorn Larsen

1255: Intrahousehold resource allocation: an overview

Lawrence Haddad, John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman and Dec

1254: What are OECD trade preferences worth to sub-Saharan Africa?

Alexander J. Yeats and Dec

1253: Can competition policy control"301"?

Joseph Finger, K.C. Fung and Dec

1252: On the dangers of decentralization

Remy Prud'homme and Dec

1251: Excise taxes

John F. Due

1250: Explaining miracles: growth regressions meet the Gang of Four

William Easterly and Dec

1249: Competitiveness and environmental standards: some exploratory results

Sorsa, Piritta*DEC

1248: Do domestic firms benefit from foreign direct investment? Evidence from panel data

Brian Aitken, Ann Harrison and Dec