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 1995:1 follows.
“An Analysis of Value‐Added Taxes in Russia and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union,” by Victoria P. Summers and Emil M. Sunley [95/1]
“Government Finance Statistics in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union: Compilation and Methodological Issues,” by Marie Montanjees [95/2]
“Saving Behavior in Low‐ and Middle–Income Developing Countries: A Comparison,” by Masao Ogaki, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Carmen M. Reinhart [95/3]
“Skills, Wages, and Employment in Eastern and Western Germany,” by Felix FitzRoy and Michael Funke [95/4]
“The Simple Economics of Benefit Transfers,” by Dennis J. Snower [95/5]
“Environmental Protectionism, North-South Trade, and the Uruguay Round,” by Piritta Sorsa [95/6]
“Evaluating Unemployment Policies: What do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?” by Dennis J. Snower [95/7]
“Inflation and Stabilization in Transition Economies; A Comparison with Market Economies,” by Ratna Sahay and Carlos Végh [95/8]
“The Pattern of International Trade Between Japan and the Pacific Basin Countries: A Comparison Between 1975 and 1985,” by Sayuri Shirai [95/9]
“Wage Contracts, Capital Mobility, and Macroeconomic Policy,” by Pierre‐Richard Agenor [95/10]
“Wage Expenditures of Central Governments,” by Daniel Hewitt and Caroline van Rijckeghem [95/11]
“Pricing to Market and the Real Exchange Rate.” by Hamid Farugee [95/12]
“Stabilization and Structural Change in Russia, 1992–94,” by Vincent Koen and Michael Marrese [95/13]
“Long‐Run Exchange Rate Modeling: A Survey of the Recent Evidence,” by Ronald MacDonald [95/14]
“Working Paper Summaries,” compiled by the Editorial Division, External Relations Department [95/15]
“Setting up a Treasury in Economies in Transition,” by Teresa Ter‐Minassian, Pedro P. Parente, and Pedro Martinez–Mendez [95/16]
“Excess Wages Tax.” by Alan A. Tait and S. Nuri Erbas [95/17]
“A Review of PPP‐Adjusted GDP Estimation and its Potential Use for the Fund’s Operational Purposes,” by Nancy Wagner [95/18]
“Public Policies and Private Savings and Investment in Sub‐Saharan Africa: An Empirical Investigation,” by Michael T. Hadjimichael and Daneshwar Ghura [95/19]
“Trade Liberalization and Unemployment,” by Pierre‐Richard Agenor and Joshua Aizenman [95/20]
“The Role of Foreign Currency Debt in Public Debt Management,” by Patrickde Fontenay, Gian Maria Milesi‐Ferretti, and Huw Pill [95/21]
“The Reform of Tax Administration,” by Vito Tanzi and Anthony Pellechio [95/22]
“Regional Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa: The Cross‐Border Initiative and its Fiscal Implications,” by Ferdinand Bakoup, Abdelrahmi Bessaha, and Luca Errico [95/23]
“Current Account Surpluses and the Interest Rate Island in Switzerland,” by Paolo Mauro [95/24]
“Fiscal Policy Coordination in the West African Economic and Monetary Union After the Devaluation,” by Christoph B. Rosenberg [95/25]
“The Design and Printing of Bank Notes: Considerations When Introducing a New Currency,” by Richard K. Abrams [95/26]
“Historical Experience with Bond Financing to Developing Countries,” by Juan Jose Fernandez‐Ansola and Thomas Laursen [95/27]
“Paradise Lost? Growth, Convergence and Migration in the South Pacific,” by Paul Cashin and Norman Loayza [95/28]
“Poverty Alleviation in a Financial Programming Framework: An Integrated Approach,” by Sheetal K. Chand and Parthasarathi Shome [95/29]
“World Public Debt and Real Interest Rates,” by Robert Ford and Douglas Laxton [95/30]
“Economic Effects and Structural Determinants of Capital Controls,” by Vittorio Grilli and Gian Maria Milesi‐Ferretti [95/31]
“Nonlinearity and Endogeneity in Macro‐Asset Pricing,” by Craig Hiemstra and Charles Kramer [95/32]
“The Italian Public Pension System: Current Prospects and Reform Options,” by Patricia Canziani and Dimitri G. Demekas [95/33]
“Measurement of Co‐Circulation of Currencies,” by Russell Krueger and Jiming Ha [95/34]
“Fiscal Restructuring in the Group of Seven Major Industrial Countries in the 1990s: Macroeconomic Effects,” by Leonardo Bartolini, Assaf Razin, and Steve Symansky [95/35]
“Wage Structure in the Transition of the Czech Economy,” by Robert J. Flanagan [95/36]