Title: "Big Bang" Versus Gradualism in Economic Reforms: An Intertemporal Analysis with an Application to China
Author/Editor: Feltenstein, Andrew ; Nsouli, Saleh M.
Series: Working Paper No. 01/98
Date: August 1, 2001
Subject(s): Economic reform | China | Privatization | Transition economies | Economic models | China, People's Republic of
Author's keyword(s): Transition | sequencing of reform

Title: The "Flat Tax(es)": Principles and Evidence
Author/Editor: Keen, Michael ; Kim, Kevin ; Varsano, Ricardo
Series: Working Paper No. 06/218
Date: October 1, 2006
Subject(s): Tax systems | Tax reforms | Income taxes | Political economy
Author's keyword(s): Flat tax | tax reform | income tax

Title: "Northwest of Suez: The 1956 Crisis and the IMF"
Author/Editor: Boughton, James M.
Series: Working Paper No. 00/192
Date: December 1, 2000
Subject(s): Financial crisis | Egypt | France | Israel | United Kingdom | Fund

Title: "Rules of Thumb" for Sovereign Debt Crises
Author/Editor: Manasse, Paolo ; Roubini, Nouriel
Series: Working Paper No. 05/42
Date: March 1, 2005
Subject(s): External Debt | Financial crisis | Debt restructuring
Author's keyword(s): Sovereign debt | Crises | Default

Title: 'Inflation Targeting Lite' in Small Open Economies: The Case of Mauritius
Author/Editor: Yao, James Y. ; Porter, Nathaniel John ; International Monetary Fund. African Dept. ; International Monetary Fund. Finance Dept.
Series: Working Paper No. 05/172
Date: September 1, 2005
Subject(s): Economic models | Exchange rate management | Exchange rate regimes | Inflation targeting | Mauritius
Author's keyword(s): Inflation targeting; small open economies; managed exchange rates

Title: Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
Author/Editor: Dollar, David ; Wei, Shang-Jin
Series: Working Paper No. 07/9
Date: January 1, 2007
Subject(s): Capital | China | Financial systems | Investment | Industry | Resource allocation | Economic reforms | China, People's Republic of
Author's keyword(s): Returns to capital | financial system | SOEs | economic reforms

Title: Access to Bank Credit in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Issues and Reform Strategies
Author/Editor: Sacerdoti, Emilio ; International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept.
Series: Working Paper No. 05/166
Date: August 1, 2005
Subject(s): Bank credit | Banking systems | Credit controls | Credit restraint | Interest rates | Private sector | Sub-Saharan Africa
Author's keyword(s): Banking systems; sub-Saharan Africa

Title: The Accountability of Financial Sector Supervisors: Principles and Practice
Author/Editor: Hüpkes, Eva H. G. ; Quintyn, Marc ; Taylor, Michael
Series: Working Paper No. 05/51
Date: March 1, 2005
Subject(s): Financial sector | Financial stability | Central banks | Bank Supervision
Author's keyword(s): Financial regulation | regulatory agencies | public administration accountability

Title: Accounting Discretion of Banks During a Financial Crisis
Author/Editor: Huizinga, Harry ; Laeven, Luc
Series: Working Paper No. 09/207
Date: September 1, 2009
Subject(s): Accounting | Asset management | Asset prices | Bank accounting | Bank regulations | Banks | Financial crisis | Housing prices | Investment | Liquidity management | Real estate prices
Author's keyword(s): Key bank regulation | accounting standards | fair value accounting | corporate disclosure | financial crisis

Title: Accrual Budgeting and Fiscal Policy
Author/Editor: Robinson, Marc
Series: Working Paper No. 09/84
Date: April 1, 2009
Subject(s): Accounting | Budgeting | Fiscal policy | Fiscal sustainability | Fiscal stability | Government expenditures | Asset management
Author's keyword(s): Accrual budgeting | fiscal sustainability | fiscal stabilization policy | net worth | control totals | net lending | aggregate expenditure

Title: Achieving a Soft Landing: The Role of Fiscal Policy
Author/Editor: Leigh, Daniel
Series: Working Paper No. 08/69
Date: March 1, 2008
Subject(s): Fiscal policy | Colombia | Monetary policy | Business cycles | Tax revenues
Author's keyword(s): Business cycle stabilization; Fiscal policy; Monetary policy

Title: Achieving Stabilization in Armenia
Author/Editor: Horváth, Balázs
Series: Working Paper No. 98/38
Date: March 1, 1998
Subject(s): Economic stabilization | Armenia | Currency substitution

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
Author's keyword(s): Macroeconomic Modeling; Bayesian Estimation | Monetary Policy

Title: Addressing Korea's Long-Term Fiscal Challenges
Author/Editor: Feyzioglu, Tarhan ; Skaarup, Michael ; Syed, Murtaza H.
Series: Working Paper No. 08/27
Date: January 1, 2008
Subject(s): Aging | Korea, Republic of | Tax administration | Tax reforms | Tax revenues | Republic of Korea
Author's keyword(s): Korea | Aging | Stimulation | Sustainability | Tax Reform | General Equilibrium.

Title: Adjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative
Author/Editor: Alonso-Gamo, Patricia ; Fennell, Susan ; Sakr, Khaled
Series: Working Paper No. 97/5
Date: January 1, 1997
Subject(s): Trade | Middle East | Africa | Trade liberalization | Multilateral trade negotiations | European Economic and Monetary Union | World Trade Organization

Title: Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility, and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing
Author/Editor: Bigsten, Arne
Series: Working Paper No. 99/99
Notes: This paper was written by multiple authors (12).
Date: July 1, 1999
Subject(s): Investment | Africa | Manufacturing | Cameroon | Ghana | Kenya | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Economic models

Title: Advanced public financial management reforms in South East Europe
Author/Editor: Tandberg, E. ; Pavesic-Skerlep, Mia
Series: Working Paper No. 09/102
Date: May 1, 2009
Subject(s): Budgetary policy | Budgeting | Budgets | Cross country analysis | Financial management | Fiscal policy | Fiscal reforms | Fiscal sector | Government expenditures | Public finance | Southern Europe

Title: Africa's Oil Abundance and External Competitiveness: Do Institutions Matter?
Author/Editor: Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed
Series: Working Paper No. 08/172
Date: July 1, 2008
Subject(s): Sub-Saharan Africa | Oil producing countries | Oil exporting countries | Competition | Financial institutions | Terms of trade | Export diversification | Foreign investment
Author's keyword(s): oil abundance | competitiveness | institutions | gravity model | sub-Saharan Africa

Title: Aftermath of Banking Crises - Effects on Real and Monetary Variables
Author/Editor: Gupta, Poonam
Series: Working Paper No. 00/96
Date: June 1, 2000
Subject(s): Financial crisis | Banking | Economic models

Title: Aggregate Investment Expenditures on Tradable and Nontradable Goods
Author/Editor: Bems, Rudolfs
Series: Working Paper No. 08/45
Date: February 1, 2008

Title: The Aging of the Population and the Size of the Welfare State
Author/Editor: Razin, Assaf ; Sadka, Efraim ; Swagel, Phillip
Series: Working Paper No. 02/68
Date: April 1, 2002
Subject(s): Pensioners | Economic policy | Labor | Tax rates | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Aging | dependency ratio | political economy | labor tax

Title: Aging: Some Pleasant Fiscal Arithmetic
Author/Editor: Hauner, David
Series: Working Paper No. 05/71
Date: April 1, 2005
Subject(s): Aging | OECD | Fiscal management | Government expenditures
Author's keyword(s): Aging | fiscal sustainability | OECD countries | public expenditure

Title: Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Author/Editor: Rajan, Raghuram ; Subramanian, Arvind
Series: Working Paper No. 05/127
Date: June 1, 2005
Subject(s): Development assistance | Economic growth | Foreign Investment | Private sector
Author's keyword(s): Aid and Growth | Cross-Sectional and Panel data

Title: Aid Scaling Up: Do Wage Bill Ceilings Stand in the Way?
Author/Editor: Fedelino, Annalisa ; Schwartz, Gerd ; Verhoeven, Marijn
Series: Working Paper No. 06/106
Date: April 1, 2006
Subject(s): Conditionality | Development assistance | Wage restraint | Millennium Development Goals | Fiscal policy | Government expenditures | Wages | Labor costs | Labor markets | Fund role | Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
Author's keyword(s): IMF conditionality | aid scaling up | wage bill | MDGs

Title: Algeria - The Real Exchange Rate, Export Diversification, and Trade Protection
Author/Editor: Sorsa, Piritta
Series: Working Paper No. 99/49
Date: April 1, 1999
Subject(s): Exchange rates | Portugal | Export diversification | Protectionism

Title: An Alternative Explanation for the Resource Curse: The Income Effect Channel
Author/Editor: Alichi, Ali ; Arezki, Rabah
Series: Working Paper No. 09/112
Date: May 1, 2009
Subject(s): Capital accumulation | Capital flows | Cross country analysis | Domestic investment | Economic growth | Economic models | Fiscal policy | Government expenditures | Income | Natural resources | Private sector | Revenue sources
Author's keyword(s): resource curse | fiscal policy | investment and growth

Title: Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap - An Application to Sweden
Author/Editor: Cerra, Valerie ; Saxena, Sweta Chaman
Series: Working Paper No. 00/59
Notes: Sweta Chaman Saxena is from the University of Pittsburgh.
Date: March 1, 2000
Subject(s): Production | Sweden | Unemployment | Inflation | Economic models

Title: Altruism and Workers' Remittances: Evidence from Selected Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia
Author/Editor: Bouhga-Hagbe, Jacques
Series: Working Paper No. 06/130
Date: May 1, 2006
Subject(s): Workers remittances | Egypt | Jordan | Morocco | Pakistan | Tunisia | Middle East and Central Asia | Balance of payments positions
Author's keyword(s): Remittances | altruism | co-integration | Egypt | Jordan | Morocco | Pakistan | Tunisia

Title: American in the Shadows: Harry Dexter White and the Design of the International Monetary Fund
Author/Editor: Boughton, James M.
Series: Working Paper No. 06/6
Date: January 1, 2006
Subject(s): Fund | International monetary system | White, Harry Dexter | Exchange rate regimes | Capital controls | Capital flows
Author's keyword(s): IMF | Harry Dexter White | international monetary system | exchange regimes

Title: An Analysis of Money Demand and Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Author/Editor: Celasun, Oya ; Goswami, Mangal
Series: Working Paper No. 02/205
Date: December 1, 2002
Subject(s): Demand for money | Iran, Islamic Republic of | Inflation | Exchange rates
Author's keyword(s): Iran | inflation | money demand | exchange rate

Title: An Analysis of So-Called Export-led Growth
Author/Editor: Yang, Jie
Series: Working Paper No. 08/220
Date: September 1, 2008
Subject(s): Economic growth | Exports | Real effective exchange rates | Labor productivity | Productivity | Economic models | Working Paper
Author's keyword(s): Export-led growth | real exchange rate | productivity improvement

Title: Analysis of the U.S. Business Cycle with a Vector-Markov-Switching Model
Author/Editor: Kontolemis G., Zenon
Series: Working Paper No. 99/107
Date: August 1, 1999
Subject(s): Business cycles | Economic models

Title: Analyzing Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities in a Dollarized Economy - The Case of Georgia
Author/Editor: Billmeier, Andreas ; Mathisen, Johan
Series: Working Paper No. 06/173
Date: July 1, 2006
Subject(s): Dollarization | Georgia | Bank supervision | Flexible exchange rates | Exchange rate regimes
Author's keyword(s): Balance sheet analysis | BSA | Georgia | vulnerabilities | currency mismatch

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
Author's keyword(s): Fiscal space | simulation | computable general equilibrium model

Title: An Anatomy of Corporate Bond Markets: Growing Pains and Knowledge Gains
Author/Editor: Luengnaruemitchai, Pipat ; Ong, Li L.
Series: Working Paper No. 05/152
Date: July 1, 2005
Subject(s): Bond markets | Credit | Debt | Emerging markets | Governance
Author's keyword(s): Benchmark | corporate debt | credit pricing | emerging markets | governance | mature markets | regulation

Title: Anatomy of Regional Disparities in the Slovak Republic
Author/Editor: Banerjee, Biswajit ; Jarmuzek, Mariusz
Series: Working Paper No. 09/145
Date: July 1, 2009
Subject(s): Cross country analysis | Economic growth | Economic models | European Union | Labor market policy | Labor productivity | Slovak Republic
Author's keyword(s): Regional disparities; -convergence;
1-convergence; growth accounting

Title: Angola's Fragile Stabilization
Author/Editor: Gasha, Jose Giancarlo ; Pastor, Gonzalo C.
Series: Working Paper No. 04/83
Date: May 1, 2004
Subject(s): Economic stabilization | Angola | Monetary policy | Fiscal policy
Author's keyword(s): Stabilization policy | monetary and exchange rate policy | fiscal policy

Title: Anticipating Credit Events Using Credit Default Swaps, with an Application to Sovereign Debt Crises
Author/Editor: Chan-Lau, Jorge A.
Series: Working Paper No. 03/106
Date: May 1, 2003
Subject(s): Credit | Financial crisis
Author's keyword(s): Credit defaults swaps | maximum recovery rate | default probability | sovereign risk

Title: Any Link Between Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Author/Editor: Jácome, Luis Ignacio ; Vázquez, Francisco F.
Series: Working Paper No. 05/75
Date: April 1, 2005
Subject(s): Central bank legislation | Latin America | Caribbean | Central bank role | Inflation | Structural adjustment
Author's keyword(s): Central bank independence | inflation | structural reform | Latin Amercia

Title: Are African Current Account Deficits Different? Stylized Facts, Transitory Shocks, and Decomposition Analysis
Author/Editor: Zanforlin, L. ; Chong, Alberto ; Calderón, César
Series: Working Paper No. 01/4
Date: January 1, 2001
Subject(s): Current account deficits | Africa | Economic models | China, People's Republic of
Author's keyword(s): Current account | Dynamic panel data models | decomposition analysis

Title: Are Business Cycles Different in Asia and Latin America?
Author/Editor: Hoffmaister, Alexander W. ; Roldos, Jorge E.
Series: Working Paper No. 97/9
Notes: This paper was prepared for the first conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (October 17-19, 1996, Mexico City, Mexico).
Date: January 1, 1997
Subject(s): Business Cycles | Asia | Latin America | Economic models

Title: Are Credit Default Swaps Spreads High in Emerging Markets-An Alternative Methodology for Proxying Recovery Value
Author/Editor: Singh, Manmohan
Series: Working Paper No. 03/242
Date: December 1, 2003
Subject(s): Credit | Emerging markets | Economic recovery | Bonds
Author's keyword(s): Recovery value | probability of default | credit default swaps

Title: Are Currency Crises Predictable? A Test
Author/Editor: Berg, Andrew ; Pattillo, Catherine A.
Series: Working Paper No. 98/154
Date: November 1, 1998
Subject(s): Financial crisis | Asia | Balance of payments | Economic models

Title: Are Diamonds Forever? Using the Permanent Income Hypothesis to Analyze Botswana's Reliance on Diamond Revenue
Author/Editor: Basdevant, Olivier
Series: Working Paper No. 08/80
Date: March 1, 2008
Subject(s): Diamonds | Botswana | Fiscal sustainability | Revenues | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Botswana | permanent income hypothesis | diamond-related fiscal revenue

Title: Are Emerging Asia’s Reserves Really Too High?
Author/Editor: Ruiz-Arranz, Marta ; Zavadjil, Milan
Series: Working Paper No. 08/192
Date: August 1, 2008
Subject(s): Asia and Pacific | Reserves | Liquidity | Capital inflows | Production | Consumption | External debt | Emerging markets
Author's keyword(s): Foreign exchange reserves | capital flows

Title: Are Immigrant Remittance Flows a Source of Capital for Development
Author/Editor: Chami, Ralph ; Fullenkamp, Connel ; Jahjah, Samir
Series: Working Paper No. 03/189
Date: September 1, 2003
Subject(s): Capital flows | Economic growth | Salary remittances
Author's keyword(s): Remittances | altruism | asymmetric information | private income transfers | moral hazard | economic growth

Title: Are Mexican Business Cycles Asymmetrical?
Author/Editor: Santos, Andre
Series: Working Paper No. 02/150
Date: September 1, 2002
Subject(s): Business cycles | Mexico | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Regime-switching models | Mexican business cycles | Markov models

Title: Are Pegged and Intermediate Regimes More Crisis Prone?
Author/Editor: Bubula, Andrea ; Ötker, Inci
Series: Working Paper No. 03/223
Date: November 1, 2003
Subject(s): Exchange rate policy | Exchange rate regimes | Floating exchange rates | Currency pegs
Author's keyword(s): Bipolar view | pegged regimes | hard pegs | soft pegs | floats | intermediate regimes | currency crises | exchange market pressure

Title: Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Author/Editor: Estevão, Marcello M. ; Sa, Filipa
Series: Working Paper No. 06/251
Date: November 1, 2006
Subject(s): Employment policy | France | Labor | Legislation
Author's keyword(s): Workweek | coordination | job-sharing | welfare

Title: Are There Negative Returns to Aid? A Comment
Author/Editor: Nkusu, Mwanza
Series: Working Paper No. 04/212
Date: November 1, 2004
Subject(s): Development assistance | Economic growth | Poverty
Author's keyword(s): Foreign Aid | Economic Growth | Poverty

Title: Are Uniform Tariffs Optimal?
Author/Editor: Amiti, Mary
Series: Working Paper No. 04/72
Date: April 1, 2004
Subject(s): Tariffs | Tariff structures | Trade liberalization | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Agglomeration | downstream firms | tariffs | trade liberalisation | upstream firms | vertical links

Title: Are Workers' Remittances a Hedge Against Macroeconomic Shocks? The Case of Sri Lanka
Author/Editor: Lueth, Erik ; Ruiz-Arranz, Marta
Series: Working Paper No. 07/22
Date: February 1, 2007
Subject(s): Workers remittances | Sri Lanka | Business cycles | Economic conditions | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Workers' remittances | cyclicality | macroeconomic shock | Vector Error Correction Model

Title: Armenia: The Road to Sustained Rapid Growth-Cross-Country Evidence
Author/Editor: Iradian, Garbis
Series: Working Paper No. 03/103
Date: May 1, 2003
Subject(s): Economic growth | Armenia | Financial intermediation | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Armenia | economic growth | financial intermediation

Title: The Art of Making Everybody Happy: How to Prevent a Secession
Author/Editor: Le Breton, Michel ; Weber, Shlomo
Series: Working Paper No. 01/176
Date: November 1, 2001
Subject(s): Population | Equal treatment principle | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Transfer Schemes | Partial Equalization | Threat of Secession

Title: Asia Rising: A Sectoral Perspective
Author/Editor: Jaumotte, Florence ; Spatafora, Nikola
Series: Working Paper No. 07/130
Date: June 1, 2007
Subject(s): Working Paper | Economic growth | Asia | Productivity
Author's keyword(s): Asia | growth | productivity

Title: Asian Flu or Wall Street Virus? Price and Volatility Spillovers of the Tech and Non-Tech Sectors in the United States and Asia
Author/Editor: Chan-Lau, Jorge A. ; Ivaschenko, Iryna V.
Series: Working Paper No. 02/154
Date: September 1, 2002
Subject(s): Prices | United States | Hong Kong SAR | Japan | Malaysia | Singapore | Stock markets | Economic models | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Author's keyword(s): Price spillovers | volatility spillovers | asymmetric GARCH models | stock markets | United States | Asia

Title: Aspects of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism under Exchange Rate Targeting: The Case of France
Author/Editor: Levy, Joaquim Vieira Ferreira ; Halikias, Ioannis
Series: Working Paper No. 97/44
Date: April 1, 1997
Subject(s): Monetary policy | France | Exchange rates | European Economic and Monetary Union | Economic models

Title: Assessing and Managing Rapid Credit Growth and the Role of Supervisory and Prudential Policies
Author/Editor: Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel ; Ötker, Inci ; Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla ; Johnsen, Gudrun
Series: Working Paper No. 05/151
Date: July 1, 2005
Subject(s): Credit expansion | Europe | Financial stability | Economic policy
Author's keyword(s): Credit growth | financial stability | supervisory and prudential policies

Title: Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict: The Case of the Central African Republic
Author/Editor: Bakhache, Said ; Lewis, Mark ; Kalonji, Kadima D. ; Nachega, Jean-Claude
Series: Working Paper No. 06/303
Date: December 1, 2006
Subject(s): Competition | Central African Republic | Foreign exchange | Trade | Transport | Governance
Author's keyword(s): Competitiveness

Title: Assessing Debt Sustainability in Emerging Market Economies Using Stochastic Simulation Methods
Author/Editor: Hostland, Doug ; Karam, Philippe D
Series: Working Paper No. 05/226
Date: December 1, 2005
Subject(s): Debt | Emerging markets | Risk premium | Fiscal policy | Fiscal management | Capital flows | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Debt sustainability | risk measures | fiscal rule

Title: Assessing Exchange Rate Competitiveness in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Author/Editor: Pineda, Emilio ; Cashin, Paul ; Sun, Yan
Series: Working Paper No. 09/78
Date: April 1, 2009
Subject(s): Exchange rates | Eastern Caribbean Currency Union | Real effective exchange rates | Purchasing power parity | Tourism | Competition | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Equilibrium real exchange rate; tourism exports; panel estimation; ECCU

Title: Assessing Financial System Vulnerabilities
Author/Editor: Johnston, R. B. ; Chai, Jingqing ; Schumacher, Liliana
Series: Working Paper No. 00/76
Date: April 1, 2000
Subject(s): Financial systems | Economic models

Title: Assessing Fiscal Sustainability Under Uncertainity
Author/Editor: Barnhill, Theodore M. ; Kopits, George
Series: Working Paper No. 03/79
Date: April 1, 2003
Subject(s): Fiscal policy | Risk premium | Financial crisis | Emerging markets
Author's keyword(s): Fiscal policy | value-at-risk analysis | vulnerability to crises

Title: Assessing Monthly Progress Towards Annual Fiscal Revenue Targets
Author/Editor: Kanda, Daniel
Series: Working Paper No. 02/116
Date: July 1, 2002
Subject(s): Fiscal management | Sri Lanka | United States | Revenues | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Sri Lanka | United States | fiscal | revenue | hypothesis testing

Title: Assessing the Assessment: A Critical Look at the June 2003 Assessment of the United Kingdom's Five Tests for Euro Entry
Author/Editor: Cottarelli, Carlo ; Escolano, Julio
Series: Working Paper No. 04/116
Date: July 1, 2004
Subject(s): Monetary policy | United Kingdom | Euro area
Author's keyword(s): Assessing the Assessment | Five Tests | Euro Entry

Title: An Assessment of External Price Competitiveness for Mozambique
Author/Editor: Vitek, Francis
Series: Working Paper No. 09/165
Date: August 1, 2009
Subject(s): Competition | Exchange rate assessments | Exchange rates | External sector | Mozambique | Price structures | Real effective exchange rates | Terms of trade
Author's keyword(s): External price competitiveness; exchange rate assessment; macroeconomic balance approach; equilibrium real exchange rate approach; external sustainability approach

Title: The Asset Allocation of Emerging Market Mutual Funds
Author/Editor: Disyatat, Piti ; Gelos, Gaston
Series: Working Paper No. 01/111
Date: August 1, 2001
Subject(s): Financial assets | Emerging markets | Stock markets | Investment
Author's keyword(s): asset allocation | portfolio choice | contagion

Title: Asset Mispricing Due to Cognitive Dissonance
Author/Editor: Drees, Burkhard ; Eckwert, Bernhard
Series: Working Paper No. 05/9
Date: January 1, 2005
Subject(s): Asset prices | Economic models | Stock markets
Author's keyword(s): Asset pricing | behavioral finance | cognitive dissonance

Title: Asymmetric Adjustment and Nonlinear Dynamics in Real Exchange Rates
Author/Editor: Leon, H. L. ; Najarian, Serineh
Series: Working Paper No. 03/159
Date: July 1, 2003
Subject(s): Real effective exchange rates | Purchasing power parity | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Nonlinearities | real exchange rates | asymmetry

Title: Asymmetric Effects of Government Spending: Does the Level of Real Interest Rates Matter?
Author/Editor: Choi, Woon Gyu ; Devereux, Michael B.
Series: Working Paper No. 05/7
Date: January 1, 2005
Subject(s): Fiscal policy | United States | Government expenditures | Real interest rates | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): fiscal policy | government spending | Ricardian equivalence | real interest rates | regime switching | threshold vector autoregression

Title: Asymmetric Information and the Market Structure of the Banking Industry
Author/Editor: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Series: Working Paper No. 98/92
Date: June 1, 1998
Subject(s): Banking | Economic models

Title: Auction Quotas with a Foreign Duopoly
Author/Editor: Tan, Ling Hui
Series: Working Paper No. 00/65
Date: March 1, 2000
Subject(s): Import restrictions | Trade | Economic models

Title: Australia and New Zealand Exchange Rates: A Quantitative Assessment
Author/Editor: Edison, Hali J. ; Vitek, Francis
Series: Working Paper No. 09/7
Date: January 1, 2009
Subject(s): Australia | New Zealand | Exchange rate assessments | Real effective exchange rates | Fiscal sustainability | Forecasting models
Author's keyword(s): Exchange rate assessments | macroeconomic balance approach | equilibrium real exchange rate approach | external sustainability approach

Title: The Austrian Theory of Business Cycles: Old Lessons for Modern Economic Policy?
Author/Editor: Oppers, Stefan E.
Series: Working Paper No. 02/2
Date: January 1, 2002
Subject(s): Business cycles | Economic policy | Monetary policy
Author's keyword(s): Austrian School | Hayek | Friedrich (1899-1992); business cycles | monetary policy

Title: Autocorrelation-Corrected Standard Errors in Panel Probits: An Application to Currency Crisis Prediction
Author/Editor: Berg, Andrew ; Coke, Rebecca N.
Series: Working Paper No. 04/39
Date: March 1, 2004
Subject(s): Crisis prevention | Currencies | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Currency crisis | early warning systems | serial correlation | panel probit

Title: Availability of Financial Soundness Indicators
Author/Editor: Slack, Graham L.
Series: Working Paper No. 03/58
Date: March 1, 2003
Subject(s): Financial soundness indicators | Financial crisis
Author's keyword(s): Financial soundness indicators | data collection | dissemination | compilation guide

Title: Bailout and Conglomeration
Author/Editor: Kim, Se-Jik
Series: Working Paper No. 99/108
Date: August 1, 1999
Subject(s): Banking

Title: Balance of Payments Crises Under Inflation Targeting
Author/Editor: Kumhof, Michael ; Li, Shujing ; Yan, Isabel K.
Series: Working Paper No. 07/84
Date: April 1, 2007
Subject(s): Balance of payments deficits | Inflation targeting | Exchange rate policy | Foreign exchange | Intervention | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Balance of payments crisis | inflation targeting | exchange rate targeting | foreign exchange intervention | flow speculative attack

Title: Balance Sheets, Exchange Rate Policy, and Welfare
Author/Editor: Elekdag, Selim ; Tchakarov, Ivan
Series: Working Paper No. 04/63
Date: April 1, 2004
Subject(s): Exchange rate policy | Capital markets | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Exchange rate policy | financial accelerator | debt-to-GDP threshold | second-order approximation

Title: Bank Behavior in Developing Countries: Evidence from East Africa
Author/Editor: Cihák, Martin ; Podpiera, Richard
Series: Working Paper No. 05/129
Date: June 1, 2005
Subject(s): Africa | Banking systems | Developing Countries | Economic reforms | Financial sector
Author's keyword(s): Banks | East Africa | financial sector reforms

Title: Bank Competition, Risk and Asset Allocations
Author/Editor: Boyd, John H. ; De Nicoló, Gianni ; Jalal, Abu M.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/143
Date: July 1, 2009
Subject(s): Asset management | Banking | Bankruptcy | Banks | Competition | Credit risk | Cross country analysis | Depositories | Economic models | Financial crisis | Time series | United States
Author's keyword(s): Bank competition | concentration | risk | asset

Title: Bank Consolidation and Performance: The Argentine Experience
Author/Editor: Basu, Ritu ; Druck, Pablo ; Marston, David ; Susmel, Raul
Series: Working Paper No. 04/149
Date: August 1, 2004
Subject(s): Banking | Argentina | Emerging markets | Bank restructuring | Financial crisis | Privatization | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Bank Consolidation | Banking Industry in Emerging Markets | Financial Performance

Title: Bank Credit in Argentina in the Aftermath of the Mexican Crisis: Supply or Demand Constrained?
Author/Editor: Catão, Luis
Series: Working Paper No. 97/32
Date: March 1, 1997
Subject(s): Bank credit | Argentina | Mexico | Supply | Demand | Economic models

Title: Bank Efficiency and Competition in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Uganda
Author/Editor: Hauner, David ; Peiris, Shanaka J.
Series: Working Paper No. 05/240
Date: December 1, 2005
Subject(s): Banks | Competition | Data analysis | Economic models | Uganda
Author's keyword(s): Banks | Competition | Efficiency | Data Envelopment Analysis

Title: Bank Efficiency in Sub-Saharan African Middle Income Countries
Author/Editor: Chen, Chuling
Series: Working Paper No. 09/14
Date: January 1, 2009
Subject(s): Banks | Africa | Developing countries | Economic conditions | Political economy | Banking sector | Profits | Cross country analysis
Author's keyword(s): cost efficiency | stochastic frontier analysis | competition

Title: Bank Fragility and International Capital Mobility
Author/Editor: Detragiache, Enrica
Series: Working Paper No. 99/113
Date: August 1, 1999
Subject(s): Capital flows | Financial crisis | Banking

Title: The Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Transmission: Does It Work in Turkey?
Author/Editor: Koeva Brooks, Petya
Series: Working Paper No. 07/272
Date: December 1, 2007
Subject(s): Liquidity | Turkey | Interest rates on loans
Author's keyword(s): Bank lending | monetary transmission | liquidity

Title: The Bank of Canada's Monetary Policy Framework - Have Recent Changes Enhanced Central Bank Credibility?
Author/Editor: González-Hermosillo, Brenda ; Ito, Takatoshi
Series: Working Paper No. 97/171
Date: December 1, 1997
Subject(s): Monetary policy | Canada | Inflation | Central banks

Title: Bank Rating Changes and Bank Stock Returns - Puzzling Evidence from the Emerging Markets
Author/Editor: Richards, Anthony J. ; Deddouche, David
Series: Working Paper No. 99/151
Date: November 1, 1999
Subject(s): Emerging markets | Bank rates | Stock markets | United States | Bond markets | Economic models

Title: Bank Reform and Bank Efficiency in Pakistan
Author/Editor: Hardy, Daniel C. L. ; Bonaccorsi di Patti, Emilia
Series: Working Paper No. 01/138
Date: September 1, 2001
Subject(s): Bank reforms | Pakistan
Author's keyword(s): Banking | Efficiency Deregulation | Pakistan

Title: Bank Risk-Taking and Competition Revisited: New Theory and New Evidence
Author/Editor: Boyd, John H. ; De Nicoló, Gianni ; Jalal, Abu M.
Series: Working Paper No. 06/297
Date: December 1, 2006
Subject(s): Bank soundness | Competition | Profits | Asset management | Resource allocation | Risk management | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Bank competition | concentration | risk | asset allocations

Title: Banking Competition, Risk, and Regulation
Author/Editor: Bolt, Wilko ; Tieman, Alexander F.
Series: Working Paper No. 04/11
Date: January 1, 2004
Subject(s): Banking | Competition | Bank regulations | Capital | Netherlands
Author's keyword(s): Banking Competition | risk profile | failure rate | capital adequacy requirements

Title: Banking Crises and Crisis Dating: Theory and Evidence
Author/Editor: Boyd, John H. ; De Nicoló, Gianni ; Loukoianova, Elena
Series: Working Paper No. 09/141
Date: July 1, 2009
Subject(s): Banking crisis | Banking sector | Banks | Cross country analysis | Deposit insurance | Economic models | External shocks | Financial crisis
Author's keyword(s): Banking crises | systemic bank shocks

Title: Banking in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Went Wrong?
Author/Editor: Daumont, Roland ; Le Gall, Françoise ; Leroux, François
Series: Working Paper No. 04/55
Date: April 1, 2004
Subject(s): Banking systems | Africa | Financial crisis | Intervention | Bank regulations
Author's keyword(s): Banking Crises | Africa

Title: Banking Sector Integration and Competition in CEMAC
Author/Editor: Saab, Samer Y. ; Vacher, Jérôme
Series: Working Paper No. 07/3
Date: January 1, 2007
Subject(s): Central African Economic and Monetary Community | Banks | Competition | Bank soundness | Financial soundness indicators | Monetary unions | Economic cooperation | Banking sector
Author's keyword(s): CEMAC | monetary union | banking sector integration | bank ccompetition

Title: Banking Stability Measures
Author/Editor: Segoviano Basurto, Miguel A. ; Goodhart, C. A. E.
Series: Working Paper No. 09/4
Date: January 1, 2009
Subject(s): Financial stability | Financial risk | Banking systems | Data analysis | Economic models
Author's keyword(s): Financial stability; portfolio risk; copula functions; entropy distribution.

Title: Banking Supervision: Quality and Governance
Author/Editor: Arnone, Marco ; Darbar, Salim M. ; Gambini, Alessandro
Series: Working Paper No. 07/82
Date: April 1, 2007
Subject(s): Bank supervision | Governance | Basel Core Principles | Transparency
Author's keyword(s): Bank supervision | governance | Basel Core Principles | transparency | accountability

Title: Bankruptcy Procedures for Sovereigns: A History of Ideas, 1976--2001
Author/Editor: Rogoff, Kenneth ; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
Series: Working Paper No. 02/133
Date: August 1, 2002
Subject(s): Debt | Financial crisis | Debt restructuring | Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism | Bankruptcy
Author's keyword(s): Sovereign bankruptcy | debt crises | international bankruptcy court | Chapter 11

Title: Banks and Monetary Shocks in Emerging Markets - How Far Can We Go With the "Credit View"?
Author/Editor: Catão, Luis ; Rodriguez, Sergio L.
Series: Working Paper No. 00/68
Date: March 1, 2000
Subject(s): Monetary policy | Banks | Bank credit | Interest rates | Emerging markets

Title: Banks During the Argentine Crisis: Were They All Hurt Equally? Did They All Behave Equally?
Author/Editor: Barajas, Adolfo ; Basco, Emiliano ; Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo ; Quarracino, Carlos
Series: Working Paper No. 06/42
Date: February 1, 2006
Subject(s): Banks | Argentina | Banking | Financial crisis | Bank regulations | Risk premium | Dollarization
Author's keyword(s): Argentina | banking | crisis | market discipline