Policy Research Working Paper Series
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- 1369: Economic policy reform, government debt guarantees, and financial bailouts

- Philip L. Brock and Decvp
- 1368: Sustained inflation in response to price liberalization

- Patrick Conway
- 1367: The economics of cash shortage

- Patrick Conway
- 1366: Distributive concerns when replacing a pay-as-you-go system with a fully funded system

- Salvador Valdés
- 1365: The macroeconomics of adjustment in sub-Saharan African countries: results and lessons

- Ishrat Husain
- 1364: Why do some economies adjust more successfully than others? lessons from seven African countries

- Ishrat Husain
- 1363: Brazil's sugarcane sector: a case of lost opportunity

- Brent Borrell, Jose R. Bianco and Malcolm D. Bale
- 1362: Regulation, institutions and commitment: the Jamaican telecommunications sector

- Pablo Spiller and Cezley I. Sampson
- 1361: External shocks and performance responses during systemic transition: the case of Ukraine

- F. Desmond McCarthy, Chandrashekar Pant, Kangbin Zheng and Giovanni Zanalda
- 1360: Are portfolio flows to emerging markets complementary or competitive?

- Sudarshan Gooptu
- 1359: When method matters: toward a resolution of the debate about Bangladesh's poverty measures

- Martin Ravallion and Binayak Sen
- 1358: Patterns of behavior in biodiversity preservation

- Andrew Metrick and Martin Weitzman
- 1357: Does participation improve project performance: establishing causality with subjective data

- Jonathan Isham, Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett
- 1356: Central bank independence: a critical view

- Ignacio Mas
- 1355: Export incentives: the impact of recent policy changes

- Sanjay Kathuria
- 1354: The effects of fiscal consolidation in the OECD

- Warwick McKibbin
- 1353: Nontariff measures and developing countries: has the Uruguay Round leveled the playing field?

- Patrick Low and Alexander Yeats
- 1352: Trade and growth in Ecuador: a partial equilibrium view

- Jesko Hentschel
- 1351: NAFTA's Implications for East Asian exports

- Carlos A. Primo Braga, Raed Safadi and Alexa Yeats
- 1350: Economic parameters of deforestation

- Joachim von Amsberg and Dec
- 1349: The new regionalism and the threat of protectionism

- Andrew Hughes Hallet, Carlos A. Primo Braga and Dec
- 1348: Quality change and other influences on measures of export prices of manufactured goods

- Robert Lipsey
- 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
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