Abstract
Staff Papers draws on IMF Working Papers, which are research studies by members of the Fund’s staff A list of Working Papers issued in 1993:2 follows.
“Labor Market Issues in Belgium: An International Perspective,” by Reza Moghadam [93/32]
“Net Foreign Assets and International Adjustment: The United States, Japan, and Germany.” by Paul R. Masson, Jeroen Kremers, and Jocelyn Home [93/33]
“Do Capital Flows Reflect Economic Fundamentals in Developing Countries?” by Atish R. Ghosh and Jonathan D. Ostry [93/34]
“Reserve Requirements and Monetary Management: An Introduction,” by Daniel C. Hardy [93/35]
“Experience with Floating Interbank Exchange Rate Systems in Five Developing Economies,” by Vicente Galbis [93/36]
“Private Saving, Public Saving, and the Inflation Tax: Another Look at an Old Issue,” by A. Javier Hamann [93/37]
“Real Exchange Rate Targeting Under Imperfect Asset Substitulability,” by J. Saul Lizondo [93/38]
“Economic Reform in Arab Countries: A Review of Structural Issues for the Remainder of the 1990s,” by Mohamed A. El-Erian and Shamsuddin Tareq [93/39]
“Toward an Economic Theory of Multilateral Development Banking,” by Gerd Schwartz [93/40]
“Exports and Economic Development,” by Delano Villanueva [93/41]
“Poland: The Social Safety Net During the Transition,” by Xavier Maret and Gerd Schwartz [93/42]
“On Improving Public Expenditure Policies for the Poor: Major Informational Requirements,” by S. Ehtisham Ahmad and Nigel Chalk [93/43]
“The Relation Between Skill Levels and the Cyclical Variability of Employment, Hours, and Wages,” by Michael Keane and Eswar Prasad [93/44]
“The Behavior of Nontradable Goods Prices in Europe: Evidence and Interpretation,” by Jose De Gregorio, Alberto Giovannini, and Thomas H. Krueger [93/45]
“Viet Nam: Reform and Stabilization, 1986-92,” by Gabrielle Lipworth and Erich Spitaller [93/46]
“Price Reform and Durable Goods in the Transition to a Market Economy,” by Pierre-Richard Agenor [93/47]
“DEER Hunting: Misalignment, Debt Accumulation, and Desired Equilibrium Exchange Rates,” by Michael J. Artis and Mark P. Taylor [93/48]
“Introduction of a New National Currency: Policy, Institutional, and Technical Issues,” by Richard K. Abrams and Hernan Cortes-Douglas [93/49]
“Optimal Tariffs: Theory and Practice,” by Arvind Subramanian, Ali Ibrahim, and Luis A. Torres-Castro [93/50]
“Public and Private Investment and the Convergence of Per Capita Incomes in Developing Countries,” by Mohsin S. Khan and Manmohan S. Kumar [93/51]
“Revisiting Japan’s External Adjustment Since 1985,” by Guy Meredith [93/52]
“An Analytical Framework of Environmental Issues,” by Jonathan Levin [93/53]
“Lessons in Fiscal Consolidation for the Successor States of the Soviet Union,” by George Kopits [93/54]