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IMFstaffpapers

Robert Flood and Shang-Jin Wei

Editors

Sean M. Culhane

Assistant Editor

Pedro C. Rodríguez

Research Assistant

Rosalind Oliver

Administrative Coordinator

Dawn Heany and Viktoria Kiss

Conference Assistants

Program Committee

Shang-Jin Wei (chair)

Xavier Debrun

Gaston Gelos

Haizhou Huang

Laura Kodres

Antonio Spilimbergo

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International Monetary Fund

IMFstaffpapers

Volume 50

lMFThirdAnnualReseachConference

2003

EDITOR’S NOTE

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© 2003 by the International Monetary Fund

ISBN 1-58906-204-3

International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 1020-7635

This serial publication is catalogued as follows:

International Monetary Fund

IMF staff papers — International Monetary Fund. v. 1–Feb. 1950–[Washington] International Monetary Fund.

  • v. tables, diagrs. 26 cm.

Three no. a year, 1950-1977; four no. a year, 1978–

Indexes:

Vols. 1-27, 1950-80, 1 v.

ISSN 1020-7635 = IMF staff papers — International Monetary Fund. 1. Foreign exchange—Periodicals. 2. Commerce—Periodicals.

3. Currency question—Periodicals.

HG3810.15

332.082

53-35483

Contents

  • Explaining Sudden Stop, Growth Collapse, and BOP Crisis: The Case of Distortionary Output Taxes

    • Guillermo A. Calvo

  • Panel Discussion—Promoting Better National Institutions: The Role of the IMF

    • Jeffrey A. Frankel, Nancy Birdsall, Jeffrey Sachs, and Guillermo Ortiz

  • Toward a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Lessons from Corporate Bankruptcy Practice Around the World

    • Patrick Bolton

  • Comment on “Toward a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Lessons from Corporate Bankruptcy Practice Around the World”

    • Jeffrey A. Frankel

  • International Financial Integration

    • Philip R. Lane and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

  • Comment on “International Financial Integration”

    • Charles Engel

  • Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility

    • M. Ayhan Kose, Eswar S. Prasad, and Marco E. Terrones

  • IS-LM-BP in the Pampas

    • Luis Felipe Céspedes, Roberto Chang, and Andrés Velasco

  • Comment on “IS-LM-BP in the Pampas”

    • Michael Devereux

  • Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets

    • Karl Habermeier and Andrei A. Kirilenko

  • Comment on “Securities Transaction Taxes and Financial Markets”

    • Kristin J. Forbes

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