Abstract
The IMF Research Bulletin, a quarterly publication, selectively summarizes research and analytical work done by various departments at the IMF, and also provides a listing of research documents and other research-related activities, including conferences and seminars. The Bulletin is intended to serve as a summary guide to research done at the IMF on various topics, and to provide a better perspective on the analytical underpinnings of the IMF’s operational work.
Working Paper No. 00/106
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Corruption in Bureaucracies
Dabla-Norris, Era
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3634.0
Working Paper No. 00/107
Managing Financial Crises: The Experience in East Asia
Boorman, Jack; Lane, Timothy; Schulze-Ghattas, Marianne; Bulir, Ales; Ghosh, Atish R.; Hamann, Javier; Mourmouras, Alexandros; Phillips, Steven
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3635.0
Working Paper No. 00/108
Real Exchange Rate Response to Capital Flows in Mexico: An Empirical Analysis
Dabos, Marcelo; Juan-Ramon, V. Hugo
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3636.0
Working Paper No. 00/109
Budgetary Convergence in the WAEMU: Adjustment Through Revenue or Expenditure?
Dore, Ousmane; Nachega, Jean-Claude
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3637.0
Working Paper No. 00/110
Threshold Effects in the Relationship Between Inflation and Growth
Khan, Mohsin S.; Senhadji, Abdelhak S.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3646.0
Working Paper No. 00/111
Bidding Behavior in Treasury Bill Auctions: Evidence from Pakistan
Hardy, Daniel C.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3647.0
Working Paper No. 00/112
Review of the Experience with Oil Stabilization and Savings Funds in Selected Countries
Fasano, Ugo
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3648.0
Working Paper No. 00/113
Fiscal Reform Over Ten Years of Transition
Tanzi, Vito; Tsibouris, George C.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3649.0
Working Paper No. 00/114
The Corporate Sector Dynamics of Systemic Financial Crises
Stone, Mark
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3650.0
Working Paper No. 00/115
Demographic Change in Asia: The Impact on Optimal National Saving, Investment, and the Current Account
Besanger, Serge; Guest, Ross S.; McDonald, Ian
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3651.0
Working Paper No. 00/116
Corruption and the Provision of Health Care and Education Services
Gupta, Sanjeev; Davoodi, Hamid; Tiongson, Erwin
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3652.0
Working Paper No. 00/117
Inequality, Transfers and Growth: New Evidence from the Economic Transition in Poland
Keane, Michael; Prasad, Eswar
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3653.0
Working Paper No. 00/118
Optimal Fiscal Strategy for Oil Exporting Countries
Valdes, Rodrigo O.; Engel, Eduardo
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3654.0
Working Paper No. 00/119
Money Demand in Guyana
Egoume-Bossogo, Philippe
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3667.0
Working Paper No. 00/120
External Sector Reform and Public Enterprise Restructuring
Bhattacharya, Rina
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3669.0
Working Paper No. 00/121
Convergence of Per Capita Output Levels Across Regions of Bangladesh, 198297
Hossain, Akhtar
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3670.0
Working Paper No. 00/122
Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization: A Model of Financial Fragility
Sobolev, Yuri Vladimirovich
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3668.0
Working Paper No. 00/123
The Transfer Problem Revisited: Net Foreign Assets and Real Exchange Rates
Lane, Philip; Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3671.0
Working Paper No. 00/124
Cost of Living Adjustment and Business Cycles: Disaggregated Evidence
Kandil, Magda
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3672.0
Working Paper No. 00/125
Costly Collateral and the Public Supply of Liquidity
Schellekens, Philip
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3675.0
Working Paper No. 00/126
Life-Cycles, Dynasties, Savings: Implications for Closed and Small, Open Economies
Faruqee, Hamid; Laxton, Douglas
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3683.0
Working Paper No. 00/127
Determinants of Inflation in The Islamic Republic of Iran: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Liu, Olin; Adedeji, Olumuyiwa S.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3684.0
Working Paper No. 00/128
Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption
Spilimbergo, Antonio; Vamvakidis, Athanasios
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3682.0
Working Paper No. 00/129
Can Fiscal Decentralization Strengthen Social Capital?
de Mello, Luiz
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3681.0
Working Paper No. 00/130
Evidence on the Fiscal and Macroeconomic Impact of Privatization
Barnett, Steven
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3692.0
Working Paper No. 00/131
The Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves: Retrospect and Prospect
Eichengreen, Barry J.; Mathieson, Donald J.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3693.0
Working Paper No. 00/132
Corruption, Structural Reforms, and Economic Performance in the Transition Economies
Abed, George T.; Davoodi, Hamid
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3697.0
Working Paper No. 00/133
Fiscal Policy and Growth in the Context of European Integration
Masson, Paul R.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3700.0
Working Paper No. 00/134
Exchange Rate Regime Transitions
Masson, Paul R.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3698.0
Working Paper No. 00/135
The Breakdown of Credit Relations Under Conditions of a Banking Crisis: A Switching Regime Approach
Munoz, Sonia
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3702.0
Working Paper No. 00/136
What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy: A Primer
Hsiao, William
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3701.0
Working Paper No. 00/137
Wage Flexibility and Economic Performance: Evidence Across Industrial Countries
Kandil, Magda
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3704.0
Working Paper No. 00/138
The Facts About Time-to-Build
Koeva, Petya
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3703.0
Working Paper No. 00/139
Reforming Pensions: Myths, Truths, and Policy Choices
Barr, Nicholas
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3710.0
Working Paper No. 00/140
Selected Issues Concerning Monetary Policy and Institutional Design for Central Banks: A Review of Theories
Beddies, Christian
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3717.0
Working Paper No. 00/141
The Impact of Monetary Policy on the Exchange Rate: Evidence from Three Small Open Economies
Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3718.0
Working Paper No. 00/142
Domestic Competition, Cyclical Fluctuations, and Long-Run Growth in Hong Kong SAR
Zitzewitz, Eric
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3723.0
Working Paper No. 00/143
Predictable Movements in Yen/DM Exchange Rates
Cottarelli, Carlo
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3719.0
Working Paper No. 00/144
Filtering the BEER: A Permanent and Transitory Decomposition
Clark, Peter B.; MacDonald, Ronald
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3720.0
Working Paper No. 00/145
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Banking Soundness and Recent Lessons
Drummond, Paulo
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3722.0
Working Paper No. 00/146
Determinants of Dollarization: The Banking Side
Terrones, Marco; Catao, Luis
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3721.0
Working Paper No. 00/147
The Benefits and Costs of Intervening in Banking Crises
Frydl, Edward; Quintyn, Marc
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3725.0
Working Paper No. 00/148
How Does U.S. Monetary Policy Influence Economic Conditions in Emerging Markets?
Arora, Vivek B.; Cerisola, Martin
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3726.0
Working Paper No. 00/149
The Case Against Harry Dexter White: Still Not Proven
Boughton, James M.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3727.0
Working Paper No. 00/150
Should Subsidized Private Transfers Replace Government Social Insurance?
Chami, Ralph; Fullenkamp, Connel
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3730.0
Working Paper No. 00/151
Population Aging and Global Capital Flows in a Parallel Universe
Brooks, Robin
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3772.0
Working Paper No. 00/152
External Capital Structure: Theory and Evidence
Lane, Philip; Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3788.0
Working Paper No. 00/153
Chile’s Rapid Growth in the 1990s: Good Policies, Good Luck, or Political Change?
Jadresic, Esteban; Zahler, Roberto
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3789.0
Working Paper No. 00/154
Capital Markets and External Current Accounts: What to Expect from the Euro
Decressin, Jörg; Disyatat, Piti
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3838.0
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