The Economic Issues Series
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Growth in East Asia: What We Can and What We Cannot Infer. Michael Sarel. 1996.
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Does the Exchange Rate Regime Matter for Inflation and Growth? Atish R. Ghosh, Anne-Marie Guide, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Holger Wolf. 1996.
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Confronting Budget Deficits. 1996.
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Fiscal Reforms That Work. C. John McDermott and Robert F. Wescott. 1996.
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Transformations to Open Market Operations: Developing Economies and Emerging Markets. Stephen H. Axilrod. 1996.
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Why Worry About Corruption? Paolo Mauro. 1997.
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Sterilizing Capital Inflows. Jang-Yung Lee. 1997.
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Why Is China Growing So Fast? Zuliu Hu and Mohsin S. Khan. 1997.
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Protecting Bank Deposits. Gillian G. Garcia. 1997.
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Deindustrialization—Its Causes and Implications. Robert Rowthorn and Ramana Ramaswamy. 1997.
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Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs? Matthew J. Slaughter and Phillip Swagel. 1997.
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Roads to Nowhere: How Corruption in Public Investment Hurts Growth. Vito Tanzi and Hamid Davoodi. 1998.
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Fixed or Flexible? Getting the Exchange Rate Right in the 1990s. Francesco Caramazza and Jahangir Aziz. 1998.
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Lessons from Systemic Bank Restructuring. Claudia Dziobek and Ceyla Pazarbaşioğlu. 1998.
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Inflation Targeting as a Framework for Monetary Policy. Guy Debelle, Paul Masson, Miguel Savastano, and Sunil Sharma. 1998.
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Should Equity Be a Goal of Economic Policy? IMF Fiscal Affairs Department. 1998.
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Liberalizing Capital Movements: Some Analytical Issues. Barry Eichengreen, Michael Mussa, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Enrica Detragiache, Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, and Andrew Tweedie. 1999.
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Privatization in Transition Countries: Lessons of the First Decade. Oleh Havrylyshyn and Donal McGettigan. 1999.
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Hedge Funds: What Do We Really Know? Barry Eichengreen and Donald Mathieson. 1999.
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Job Creation: Why Some Countries Do Better. Pietro Garibaldi and Paolo Mauro. 2000.
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Improving Governance and Fighting Corruption in the Baltic and CIS Countries: The Role of the IMF. Thomas Wolf and Emine Gürgen. 2000.
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The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises. Andrew Berg and Catherine Pattillo. 2000.
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Promoting Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning What Works. Anupam Basu, Evangelos A. Calamitsis, and Dhaneshwar Ghura. 2000.
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Full Dollarization: The Pros and Cons. Andrew Berg and Eduardo Borensztein. 2000.
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Controlling Pollution Using Taxes and Tradable Permits. John Norregaard and Valérie Reppelin-Hill. 2000.
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Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Implications for Public Policy. Mahmood Hasan Khan. 2001.
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Tax Policy for Developing Countries. Vito Tanzi and Howell Zee. 2001.
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Moral Hazard: Does IMF Financing Encourage Imprudence by Borrowers and Lenders? Timothy Lane and Steven Phillips. 2002.
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The Pension Puzzle: Prerequisites and Policy Choices in Pension Design. Nicholas Barr. 2002
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Hiding in the Shadows: The Growth of the Underground Economy. Friedrich Schneider with Dominik Enste. 2002.
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Corporate Sector Restructuring: The Role of Government in Times of Crisis. Mark R. Stone. 2002.
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Should Financial Sector Regulators Be Independent? Marc Quintyn and Michael W. Taylor. 2004.
Marc Quintyn is a deputy division chief in the IMF’s Monetary and Financial Systems Department. He has published widely in academic and professional journals and contributed to a number of books on monetary policy, financial systems, and European monetary and financial integration. Before joining the IMF, he was with the National Bank of Belgium (Research Department) and taught at the University of Limburg (Belgium). He has a Ph.D. from the University of Ghent (Belgium).
Michael W. Taylor is the Financial Sector Issue Representative in Indonesia of the IMF’s Monetary and Financial Systems Department. He has published numerous articles on financial regulation in academic and professional journals and written and contributed to a number of books, including, in 2002, Building Strong Banks (which was co-edited with Charles Enoch and David Marston and published by the IMF). He previously worked at the Bank of England and has taught at several universities in the United Kingdom. He also edited the journal Financial Regulator and served as assistant editor of the FT Financial Regulation Report. He has a B.A. and a D.Phil. from Oxford University.