Title: Republic of Poland--Review Under the Flexible Credit Line Arrangement-Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Republic of Poland
Series: Country Report No. 09/314
Date: November 16, 2009
Subject(s): Announcements | Banking sector | Debt sustainability | Economic indicators | Fiscal policy | Flexible Credit Line | Government finance statistics | Monetary policy | Public finance | Special Data Dissemination Standard | Staff Reports | Poland

Title: Lebanon: Report on Performance Under the Program Supported by Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance
Series: Country Report No. 09/313
Date: November 12, 2009
Subject(s): Banking sector | Central bank policy | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Fiscal consolidation | Fiscal policy | Interest rate reductions | Political economy | Post-conflict emergency assistance | Tax revenues | Lebanon

Title: Colombia: Review Under the Flexible Credit Line - Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Colombia
Series: Country Report No. 09/312
Date: November 10, 2009
Subject(s): Access to Fund general resources | Announcements | Balance of payments | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Flexible Credit Line | Flexible exchange rates | Fund arrangements | Inflation targeting | Monetary policy | Staff Reports | Colombia

Title: Sri Lanka: Request for Stand-By Arrangement -Staff Report; Staff Supplements; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sri Lanka
Series: Country Report No. 09/310
Date: November 4, 2009
Subject(s): Announcements | Banking sector | Economic indicators | Financial risk | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Fund approval | Monetary policy | Public enterprises | Staff Reports | Stand-by arrangement requests | Tax policy | Sri Lanka

Title: The Solomon Islands: 2009 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Staff Statement; Supplement to the Staff Report; Public Information Notice; Statement by the Executive Director for the Solomon Islands
Series: Country Report No. 09/309
Date: November 3, 2009
Subject(s): Article IV consultation reports | Bank supervision | Banking sector | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Exchange rate policy | External shocks | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Monetary policy | Public information | Staff Reports | Technical assistance | Solomon Islands

Title: The State of Public Finances Cross-Country Fiscal Monitor: November 2009
Author/Editor: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept.
Series: Staff Position Note No. 2009/25
Date: November 3, 2009
Subject(s): Budget deficits | Cross country analysis | Debt sustainability | Developed countries | Financial crisis | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Fiscal sustainability | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | Group of Twenty | Public debt | Public finance

Title: Countercyclical Macro Prudential Policies in a Supporting Role to Monetary Policy
Author/Editor: N'Diaye, Papa M'B. P.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/257
Date: November 1, 2009

Title: Fiscal Stimulus to the Rescue? Short-Run Benefits and Potential Long-Run Costs of Fiscal Deficits
Author/Editor: Freedman, Charles ; Kumhof, Michael ; Laxton, Douglas ; Muir, Dirk ; Mursula, Susanna
Series: Working Paper No. 09/255
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Budget deficits | Economic models | External shocks | Financial crisis | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | Government expenditures | International financial system | Monetary policy | Productivity | Public debt

Title: Adding Indonesia to the Global Projection Model
Author/Editor: Andrle, Michal ; Freedman, Charles ; Garcia-Saltos, Roberto ; Hermawan, Danny ; Laxton, Douglas ; Munandar, Haris
Series: Working Paper No. 09/253
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Economic growth | Economic models | Emerging markets | External shocks | Indonesia | Inflation targeting | Monetary policy

Title: Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Rules in a Model with House Price Booms
Author/Editor: Kannan, Prakash ; Rabanal, Pau ; Scott, Alasdair
Series: Working Paper No. 09/251
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset prices | Capital markets | Central banks | Credit controls | Credit demand | Credit risk | Economic models | External shocks | Household credit | Housing prices | Monetary policy | Price increases

Title: Countering the Cycle - The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Korea
Author/Editor: Eskesen, Leif Lybecker
Series: Working Paper No. 09/249
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Business cycles | Consumption | Cross country analysis | Economic models | Financial crisis | Fiscal policy | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | Government expenditures | Korea, Republic of | Monetary policy | National income | Public investment

Title: Financial Sector Surveillance and the IMF
Author/Editor: Gola, Carlo ; Spadafora, Francesco
Series: Working Paper No. 09/247
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Article IV consultations | Asia | Exchange rate policy surveillance | Financial crisis | Financial sector | Financial Sector Assessment Program | Financial soundness indicators | Fund role | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | International financial system | Mexico | Multilateral surveillance | Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes

Title: What’s the Damage? Medium-term Output Dynamics After Banking Crises
Author/Editor: Abiad, Abdul ; Balakrishnan, Ravi ; Koeva Brooks, Petya ; Leigh, Daniel ; Tytell, Irina
Series: Working Paper No. 09/245
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset management | China, People's Republic of | Governance | Investment policy | Pension funds | Pension supervision | Savings promotion

Title: Top-Down Budgeting - An Instrument to Strengthen Budget Management
Author/Editor: Ljungman, Gösta
Series: Working Paper No. 09/243
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Budgetary policy | Budgeting | Budgets | Cross country analysis | Fiscal sustainability | Governance | Government expenditures

Title: The Role of Financial Variables in Predicting Economic Activity in the Euro Area
Author/Editor: Espinoza, Raphael A. ; Fornari, Fabio ; Lombardi, Marco
Series: Working Paper No. 09/241
Date: November 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset prices | Business cycles | Cross country analysis | Economic forecasting | Economic growth | Economic models | Euro Area | Financial crisis | Financial sector | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | Stock markets

Title: Iceland: Staff Report for First Review under Stand-By Arrangement and Requests for Extension of the Arrangement, Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Rephasing of Access
Series: Country Report No. 09/306
Date: October 20, 2009
Subject(s): Bank reforms | Banking sector | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Flexible exchange rate policy | Monetary policy | Performance criteria waivers | Phasing of purchases | Staff Reports | Stand-by arrangement reviews | Iceland

Title: Hungary: Third Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement, Requests for Extension of the Arrangement, Rephasing of Purchases, and Modification of Performance Criterion
Series: Country Report No. 09/304
Date: October 19, 2009
Subject(s): Bank supervision | Banking sector | Budget deficits | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Extended arrangement requests | Fiscal policy | Fiscal sustainability | Inflation targeting | Monetary policy | Performance criteria modifications | Phasing of purchases | Risk management | Stand-by arrangement reviews | Hungary

Title: Mexico: Review Under the Flexible Credit Line Arrangement - Staff Report and PressRelease on the Executive Board Discussion
Series: Country Report No. 09/302
Date: October 16, 2009
Subject(s): Access to Fund general resources | Announcements | Bank supervision | Debt sustainability | Economic indicators | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Flexible credit line | Fund arrangements | Inflation targeting | Monetary policy | Risk management | Staff Reports | Mexico

Title: Romania: First Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement, Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, and Request for Modification and Establishment of Performance Criteria; Statement by the IMF Staff Representative; and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion;
Series: Country Report No. 09/301
Date: October 8, 2009
Subject(s): Announcements | Bank supervision | Banking sector | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Economic recession | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Inflation targeting | Monetary policy | Performance criteria modifications | Performance criteria waivers | Stand-by arrangement reviews | Romania

Title: Republic of Kazakhstan: 2009 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Supplement; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion.
Series: Country Report No. 09/300
Date: October 6, 2009
Subject(s): Article IV consultations | Bank regulations | Bank supervision | Banking sector | Economic indicators | Exchange rate regimes | Fiscal policy | Monetary policy | Public information | Regional shocks | Spillovers | Staff Reports | Kazakhstan

Title: Modernizing Cash Management
Author/Editor: Lienert, Ian
Series: Technical Notes and Manuals No. 2009/03
Date: October 5, 2009

Title: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Financial Stability-An Event Study Analysis
Author/Editor: Sun, Tao ; Hesse, Heiko
Series: Working Paper No. 09/239
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset management | Asset prices | Capital markets | Corporate governance | Developed countries | Domestic investment | Emerging markets | Financial institutions | Financial stability | Sovereign wealth funds

Title: Fiscal Deficits and Current Account Deficits
Author/Editor: Kumhof, Michael ; Laxton, Douglas
Series: Working Paper No. 09/237
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Budget deficits | Business cycles | Current account deficits | Economic models | Fiscal policy | Fiscal sustainability | Gross domestic product | Monetary policy | Private sector | Public debt | Savings

Title: Is the Canadian Housing Market Overvalued? A Post-Crisis Assessment
Author/Editor: Tsounta, Evridiki
Series: Working Paper No. 09/235
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset prices | Banking sector | Business cycles | Canada | Economic models | Fiscal policy | Household credit | Housing prices | Price increases

Title: Excessive Lending, Leverage, and Risk-Taking in the Presence of Bailout Expectations
Author/Editor: Georgiou, Andréas
Series: Working Paper No. 09/233
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Banking sector | Borrowing | Economic models | Financial crisis | Financial risk | Fiscal policy | Intervention | Investment | Loans | Nonbank financial sector

Title: Three Cycles: Housing, Credit, and Real Activity
Author/Editor: Igan, Deniz ; Kabundi, Alain N. ; Nadal-De Simone, Francisco ; Pinheiro, Marcelo ; Tamirisa, Natalia T.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/231
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Bank credit | Business cycles | Credit demand | Cross country analysis | Developed countries | Economic growth | Economic models | Household credit | Housing prices | Interest rates | Time series

Title: Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters
Author/Editor: Borensztein, Eduardo ; Jeanne, Olivier ; Sandri, Damiano
Series: Working Paper No. 09/229
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Commodities | Commodity price fluctuations | Cross country analysis | Developing countries | Economic models | Export earnings | Export markets | Financial instruments | Financial risk | Hedge funds | International trade | Risk management

Title: Analyzing Fiscal Space Using the MAMS Model: An Application to Burkina Faso
Author/Editor: Gottschalk, Jan ; Manh Le,, Vu ; Lofgren, Hans ; Nouve, Kofi
Series: Working Paper No. 09/227
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Burkina Faso | Capital inflows | Concessional aid | Economic growth | Economic models | Fiscal policy | Fiscal sector | Government expenditures | Human capital | Infrastructure | Millennium Development Goals | Resource mobilization | Revenue mobilization

Title: Revisiting the Determinants of Productivity Growth: What's new?
Author/Editor: Loko, Boileau ; Diouf, Mame Astou
Series: Working Paper No. 09/225
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Economic growth | Emerging markets | Foreign direct investment | Government expenditures | Inflation rates | Labor markets | Labor policy | Productivity | Trade liberalization | Women

Title: Australian Bank and Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities--An International Perspective
Author/Editor: Takáts, Elöd ; Tumbarello, Patrizia
Series: Working Paper No. 09/223
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Australia | Banking sector | Banks | Corporate sector | Credit risk | Cross country analysis | Financial assets | Financial soundness indicators | Loans | Private sector | Risk management

Title: External Balance in Low Income Countries
Author/Editor: Christiansen, Lone Engbo ; Prati, Alessandro ; Ricci, Luca Antonio ; Tressel, Thierry
Series: Working Paper No. 09/221
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Capital account | Capital flows | Cross country analysis | Current account | External financing | External shocks | Financial assets | Foreign investment | Low-income developing countries | Real effective exchange rates | Terms of trade | Time series

Title: The Uncertainty Channel of Contagion
Author/Editor: Kannan, Prakash ; Köhler-Geib, Fritzi
Series: Working Paper No. 09/219
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Capital markets | Cross country analysis | Currencies | Economic models | Financial crisis | Investment | Sovereign debt | Spillovers | Stock markets

Title: Access to Market Financing for IDA-eligible Countries—the Role of External Debt and IMF-Supported Programs
Author/Editor: Thomas, Alun H.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/217
Date: October 1, 2009
Subject(s): Access to capital markets | Bond markets | Bonds | Credit risk | Debt service ratios | Demand | Economic models | External debt | External financing | Fund facilities | HIPC Initiative | Political economy | Supply

Title: Republic of Latvia: First Review and Financing Assurances Review Under the Stand By Arrangement, Requests for Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Rephasing of Purchases Under the Arrangement
Series: Country Report No. 09/297
Date: September 30, 2009
Subject(s): Debt restructuring | Economic indicators | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Household credit | Liquidity management | Monetary policy | Performance criteria waivers | Phasing of purchases | Political economy | Private sector | Stand-by arrangement reviews | Latvia

Title: Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers
Author/Editor: Baunsgaard, Thomas ; Symansky, Steven A.
Series: Staff Position Note No. 2009/23
Date: September 28, 2009
Subject(s): Budgets | Business cycles | Corporate sector | Fiscal management | Fiscal policy | Fiscal stability | Government expenditures | Income taxes | Private sector | Progressive taxation | Stabilization measures | Tax policy

Title: The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: Request for a 14-Month Arrangement under the Exogenous Shocks Facility-Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Series: Country Report No. 09/296
Date: September 23, 2009
Subject(s): Access to Fund general resources | Announcements | Balance of payments need | Debt sustainability | Exogenous Shocks Facility | External debt | External shocks | Fiscal management | Fiscal policy | Infrastructure | Monetary aggregates | Public sector | Staff Reports | Stand-by arrangement requests | Ethiopia

Title: A Strategy for Renormalizing Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Advanced Economies
Author/Editor: Cottarelli, Carlo ; Vinals, Jose
Series: Staff Position Note No. 2009/22
Date: September 22, 2009
Subject(s): Central banks | Debt sustainability | Developed countries | Economic growth | Economic recovery | Financial crisis | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Fiscal sustainability | Inflation | Liquidity management | Monetary policy | Public debt

Title: Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: 2009 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Series: Country Report No. 09/294
Date: September 21, 2009
Subject(s): Article IV consultations | Bank supervision | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Excess liquidity | Financial management | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Monetary policy | Oil revenues | Public information | Real effective exchange rates | Staff Reports | Tax reforms | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Title: Transition to Accrual Accounting
Author/Editor: Khan, Abdul ; Mayes, Stephen
Series: Technical Notes and Manuals No. 2009/02
Date: September 21, 2009

Title: Fiscal Implications of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis
Series: Occasional Paper No. 269
Date: September 18, 2009
Subject(s): Budgets | Capital markets | Developed countries | Emerging markets | Financial crisis | Financial institutions | Fiscal policy | Fiscal stability | Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 | Pension funds | Public finance

Title: Haiti: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report
Series: Country Report No. 09/290
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Annual reports | Debt management | Economic reforms | Education | Governance | Health care | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers | Public finance | Tax reforms | Haiti

Title: Haiti: Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries - Completion Point Document
Series: Country Report No. 09/288
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Debt management | Debt sustainability analysis | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Education | Financial management | Fiscal management | Governance | Health care | Heavily indebted poor countries | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers | Public information | Tax reforms | Haiti

Title: Turkey: Report on Observance of Standards and Codes - Data Module, Response by the Authorities, and Detailed Assessment Using the Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF)
Series: Country Report No. 09/286
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Consumer price indexes | Data quality assessment framework | Government finance statistics | National accounts | Producer price indexes | Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes | Turkey

Title: Jersey: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update - Financial System Stability Assessment
Series: Country Report No. 09/282
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Anti-money laundering | Bank supervision | Banking sector | Basel Core Principles | Combating the financing of terrorism | Financial institutions | Financial Sector Assessment Program | Financial stability | Financial system stability assessment | Insurance | Insurance regulations | Investment | Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes | Securities regulations | Jersey

Title: Jersey: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update - Detailed Assessment of Observance of AML/CFT
Series: Country Report No. 09/280
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Anti-money laundering | Combating the financing of terrorism | Financial institutions | Financial sector | Financial Sector Assessment Program | Freeze on financial assets | Governance | International cooperation | Legislation | Private sector | Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes | Jersey

Title: Isle of Man: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update - Detailed Assessment of Observance of AML/CFT
Series: Country Report No. 09/278
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Anti-money laundering | Combating the financing of terrorism | Financial institutions | Financial sector | Financial Sector Assessment Program | Freeze on financial assets | Governance | International cooperation | Legislation | Private sector | Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes | Isle of Man

Title: Isle of Man: Financial Sector Assessment Program Update - Financial System Stability Assessment
Series: Country Report No. 09/275
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Anti-money laundering | Bank supervision | Banking sector | Combating the financing of terrorism | Financial institutions | Financial risk | Financial Sector Assessment Program | Financial stability | Financial system stability assessment | Insurance | Insurance regulations | Investment | Securities regulations | Isle of Man

Title: South Africa: 2009 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Staff Statement and Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for South Africa
Series: Country Report No. 09/273
Date: September 14, 2009
Subject(s): Article IV consultation reports | Bank supervision | Banks | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Economic recession | Financial sector | Fiscal policy | Floating exchange rates | Monetary policy | Public information | Reserves accumulation | Staff Reports | Trade policy | South Africa

Title: Lao People's Democratic Republic: 2009 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion
Series: Country Report No. 09/284
Date: September 11, 2009
Subject(s): Article IV consultation reports | Bank legislation | Bank supervision | Banking sector | Central bank policy | Economic growth | Economic indicators | Financial crisis | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Monetary policy | Public information | Staff Reports | Transition economies | Lao People's Democratic Republic

Title: Chile: Selected Issues
Series: Country Report No. 09/272
Date: September 9, 2009
Subject(s): Bank supervision | Banking sector | Banks | Cross country analysis | Economic growth | Economic models | Financial crisis | Fiscal policy | Government expenditures | Investment | Productivity | Selected issues | Chile

Title: Ukraine: Second Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria - Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion
Series: Country Report No. 09/270
Date: September 8, 2009
Subject(s): Announcements | Bank restructuring | Banking sector | Economic indicators | Economic recession | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Flexible exchange rate policy | Monetary policy | Performance criteria modifications | Political economy | Staff Reports | Stand-by arrangement reviews | Ukraine

Title: Constructing Forecast Confidence Bands During the Financial Crisis
Author/Editor: Chen, Huigang ; Clinton, Kevin ; Johnson, Marianne ; Kamenik, Ondra ; Laxton, Douglas
Series: Working Paper No. 09/214
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Bank credit | Credit restraint | Economic forecasting | Economic models | European Union | Inflation targeting | Interest rates | Japan | Monetary policy | Oil prices | United States

Title: Cointegrated TFP Processes and International Business Cycles
Author/Editor: Rabanal, Pau ; Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F. ; Tuesta, Vicente
Series: Working Paper No. 09/212
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Business cycles | Consumer goods | Demand | Economic models | Exchange rates | External shocks | Industrial production | International trade | Price elasticity | Prices | Private consumption | Productivity | Real effective exchange rates | Spillovers

Title: Who Benefits from Capital Account Liberalization? Evidence from Firm-Level Credit Ratings Data
Author/Editor: Prati, Alessandro ; Schindler, Martin ; Valenzuela, Patricio
Series: Working Paper No. 09/210
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Access to capital markets | Asset management | Capital account liberalization | Capital controls | Corporate sector | Credit | Debt | Economic models | Foreign exchange transactions | Foreign investment | Time series

Title: Controlling Capital? Legal Restrictions and the Asset Composition of International Financial Flows
Author/Editor: Binici, Mahir ; Hutchison, Michael ; Schindler, Martin
Series: Working Paper No. 09/208
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset management | Capital account | Capital controls | Capital flows | Cross country analysis | Economic integration | Globalization | Time series

Title: The Effectiveness of Central Bank Interventions During the First Phase of the Subprime Crisis
Author/Editor: Frank, Nathaniel ; Hesse, Heiko
Series: Working Paper No. 09/206
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Bank credit | Banking sector | Central bank policy | Central banks | Credit risk | Economic models | Financial crisis | Liquidity management | Loans | Monetary policy | Risk management

Title: How to Stop a Herd of Running Bears? Market Response to Policy Initiatives during the Global Financial Crisis
Author/Editor: Aït-Sahalia, Yacine ; Andritzky, Jochen R. ; Jobst, Andreas ; Nowak, Sylwia Barbara ; Tamirisa, Natalia T.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/204
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Banks | Capital markets | Central banks | Data analysis | Databases | Financial crisis | Financial sector | Monetary policy | Spillovers | Statistics

Title: Benchmark Priors Revisited: On Adaptive Shrinkage and the Supermodel Effect in Bayesian Model Averaging
Author/Editor: Feldkircher, Martin ; Zeugner, Stefan
Series: Working Paper No. 09/202
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Data analysis | Economic growth | Economic models

Title: The Need for Special Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions—The Case of theEuropean Union
Author/Editor: Cihák, Martin ; Nier, Erlend
Series: Working Paper No. 09/200
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Bank resolution | Bank supervision | Bankruptcy | Banks | Credit risk | European Union | Financial institutions | Financial risk | Financial sector | Financial stability | Nonbank financial sector | Risk management

Title: The Real Effects of Financial Sector Risk
Author/Editor: Tieman, Alexander F. ; Maechler, Andrea M.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/198
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Banks | Credit expansion | Economic models | European Union | Financial risk | Financial sector | Financial stability

Title: The Derivatives Market in South Africa: Lessons for sub-Saharan African Countries
Author/Editor: Adelegan, Olatundun Janet
Series: Working Paper No. 09/196
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Bond markets | Capital flows | Capital markets | Financial instruments | Financial risk | Investment | Liquidity management | Risk management | Securities markets | Securities regulations | South Africa | Stock markets | Sub-Saharan Africa

Title: Political Risk Aversion
Author/Editor: Valderrama, Laura
Series: Working Paper No. 09/194
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Corporate governance | Corporate sector | Economic models | Labor mobility | Political economy | Productivity | Technology transfer | Voting power

Title: The Gambia: Demand for Broad Money and Implications for Monetary Policy Conduct
Author/Editor: Sriram, Subramanian S.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/192
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Central bank policy | Commercial banks | Demand for money | Economic growth | Economic models | Financial sector | Gambia, The | Inflation targeting | Interest rates on deposits | Liquidity | Monetary policy | Price stabilization | Sub-Saharan Africa | Time series

Title: Fiscal Sustainability in Remittance-Dependent Economies
Author/Editor: Abdih, Yasser ; Chami, Ralph ; Gapen, Michael T. ; Mati, Amine
Series: Working Paper No. 09/190
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Capital inflows | Debt burden | Debt sustainability | Demand for money | Developing countries | Economic models | Fiscal management | Fiscal sustainability | Gross domestic product | Lebanon | Private savings | Public debt | Workers remittances

Title: Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk
Author/Editor: Roca, Mauro
Series: Working Paper No. 09/188
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Consumption | Economic models | Employment | Financial risk | Income | Income distribution | Insurance | Labor markets | Private savings | Private sector | Unemployment | Wage bargaining | Wages

Title: One Money, One Market - A Revised Benchmark
Author/Editor: Eicher, Theo S. ; Henn, Christian
Series: Working Paper No. 09/186
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Bilateral trade | Economic models | Markets | Monetary systems | Monetary unions | Trade integration | Trade relations

Title: The Gambia - Fifth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for a Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion - Staff Report; and Press Release
Series: Country Report No. 09/268
Date: August 24, 2009
Subject(s): Announcements | Current account deficits | Debt reduction | Debt strategy | Economic indicators | External debt | Financial risk | Fiscal management | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Monetary policy | Performance criteria waivers | Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility | Staff Reports | Gambia, The