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CONTENTS
Vol. 38 No. 1
MARCH 1991
Long-Run Money Demand in Large Industrial Countries
JAMES M. BOUGHTON
Private Investment in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis
JOSHUA GREENE and DELANO VILLANUEVA
Wages, Profitability, and Growth in a Small Open Economy
BANKIM CHADHA
The Transmission Mechanism for Monetary Policy in Developing Countries
PETER J. MONTIEL
The Budgetary Control and Fiscal Impact of Government Contingent Liabilities
CHRISTOPHER M. TOWE
An Inflation-Proof Tax System? Some Lessons from Israel
EFRAIM SADKA
Exchange Rate Expectations: A Survey of Survey Studies
SHINJI TAKAGI
Currency Bands, Target Zones, and Price Flexibility
MARCUS MILLER and PAUL WELLER
Shorter Papers and Comments
The 1990 Reform of U.K. Local Authority Finance
TAMIM BAYOUMI
Issues in Interest Rate Management and Liberalization: Comment on Leite and Sundararajan
STEPHEN H. AXILROD
IMF Working Papers