Abstract
Research summaries on (1) public investment, and (2) bank transaction taxes; announcement of forthcoming (November 2006) Jacques Polak Seventh Annual Research Conference; country study on Italy; listing of contents of Vol. 53, No. 2 of IMF Staff Papers, summary of recently published book entitled "Divergent Paths in Post-Communist Transformation: Capitalism for All or Capitalism for the Few?"; summary of (January 2006) Warsaw Conference on European Union (EU) enlargement and related flows of labor and capital; listing of recent IMF Working Papers; and listing of visiting scholars at IMF, January-April 2006.
2006
No. 06/10
“Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?”
Amiti, Mary; Romalis, John
No. 06/11
“Corruption, Competition, and Contracts: A Model of Vote Buying”
Morgan, John; Vardy, Felix J. J.
No. 06/12
“Reforming External Tariffs in Central and Western African Countries”
Doe, Lubin Kobla
No. 06/13
“Pricing and Hedging of Contingent Credit Lines”
Loukoianova, Elena; Neftci, Salih N.; Sharma, Sunil
No. 06/14
“Foreign Aid Policy and Sources of Poverty: A Quantitative Framework”
Mourmouras, Alex; Rangazas, Peter
No. 06/15
“Suppressed Inflation and Money Demand in Zimbabwe”
Muñoz, Sònia
No. 06/16
“Fiscal Policy and Financial Markets”
Akitoby, Bernardin; Stratmann, Thomas
No. 06/17
“The Net Worth Approach to Fiscal Analysis: Dynamics and Rules”
da Costa, Mercedes; Juan-Ramón, V. Hugo
No. 06/18
“Foreign Banks in Poor Countries: Theory and Evidence”
Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry; Gupta, Poonam
No. 06/19
“Equilibrium Wage Dispersion: An Example”
Gaumont, Damien; Schindler, Martin; Wright, Randall
No. 06/20
“Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?”
Tokarick, Stephen
No. 06/21
“Economic Transformation, Population Growth, and the Long-Run World Income Distribution”
Chamon, Marcos; Kremer, Michael
No. 06/22
“India’s Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows?”
Kochhar, Kalpana; Kumar, Utsav; Rajan, Raghuram; Subramanian, Arvind; Tokatlidis, Ioannis
No. 06/23
“Tax Incentives and Investment in the Eastern Caribbean”
Sosa, Sebastian
No. 06/24
“Implications of Quasi-Fiscal Activities in Ghana”
Chivakul, Mali; York, Robert C.
No. 06/25
“Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence from the Caribbean”
Mishra, Prachi
No. 06/26
“Fiscal Policy and Financial Development”
Hauner, David
No. 06/27
“Procyclical Fiscal Policy: Shocks, Rules, and Institutions—A View From MARS”
Manasse, Paolo
No. 06/28
“Zimbabwe’s Export Performance: The Impact of the Parallel Market and Governance Factors”
Muñoz, Sònia
No. 06/29
“Habit Formation and Persistence in Individual Asset Portfolio Holdings: The Case of Italy”
Muñoz, Sònia
No. 06/30
“Wealth Effects in Europe: A Tale of Two Countries (Italy and the United Kingdom)”
Muñoz, Sònia
No. 06/31
“Stylized Facts on Bilateral Trade and Currency Unions: Implications for Africa”
Tsangarides, Charalambos G.; Ewenczyk, Pierre; Hulej, Michal
No. 06/32
“Toward an Effective Supervision of Partially Dollarized Banking Systems”
Cayazzo, Jorge; Garcia Pascual, Antonio; Gutierrez, Eva; Heysen, Socorro
No. 06/33
“Financial Sector Projections and Stress Testing in Financial Programming: A New Framework”
Basu, Ritu; Choueiri, Nada; Garcia Pascual, Antonio
No. 06/34
“Regulatory Capture in Banking”
Hardy, Daniel C.
No. 06/35
“Does Economic Diversification Lead to Financial Development? Evidence from Topography”
Ramcharan, Rodney
No. 06/36
“Does Inflation in China Affect the United States and Japan?”
Feyzioglu, Tarhan; Willard, Luke
No. 06/37
“The Impact of Foreign Interest Rates on the Economy: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime”
di Giovanni, Julian; Shambaugh, Jay C.
No. 06/38
“Providing Official Statistics for the Common Market and Monetary Union in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: A Case for ‘Gulfstat’”
Al-Mansouri, Abdulrahman K.L.; Dziobek, Claudia
No. 06/39
“Does NGO Aid Go to the Poor? Empirical Evidence from Europe”
Nancy, Gilles; Yontcheva, Boriana
No. 06/40
“Macroeconomic Challenges with EU Accession in Southeastern Europe: An Overview”
Sorsa, Piritta
No. 06/41
“Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy: Accuracy Is (Still) a Matter of Geography”
Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel
No. 06/42
“Banks During the Argentine Crisis: Were They All Hurt Equally? Did They All Behave Equally?”
Barajas, Adolfo; Basco, Emiliano; Juan-Ramón, V. Hugo; Quarracino, Carlos
No. 06/43
“Quasi-Fiscal Deficits and Energy Conditionality in Selected CIS Countries”
Saavalainen, Tapio; ten Berge, Joy
No. 06/44
“Banking Spreads in Latin America”
Gelos, R. Gaston
No. 06/45
“A New-Open-Economy Macro Model for Fiscal Policy Evaluation”
Botman, Dennis P. J.; Laxton, Douglas; Muir, Dirk; Romanov, Andrei
No. 06/46
“How Different Is the Cyclical Behavior of Home Production Across Countries?”
Blankenau, William; Kose, M. Ayhan
IMF Working Papers and other IMF publications can be downloaded in full-text format from the “Research at the IMF” website at http://www.imf.org/research.
Visiting Scholars, January–April 2006
Josh Abor; University of Ghana; 3/20/06–4/28/06
Muge Adalet; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; 3/27/06–4/7/06
Olayinka Adenikinju; University of Ibadan, Nigeria; 3/14/06–4/21/06
Aradhna Aggarwal; University of Delhi; 3/27/06–4/28/06
Laura Alfaro; Harvard University; 1/8/06–1/26/06
Franklin Allen; University of Pennsylvania; 1/3/06
Alayande Babatunde; Lagos State University, Nigeria; 2/13/06–3/24/06
Philippe Bacchetta; Study Center Gerzensee, Switzerland; 2/20/06–4/29/06
Laurence Ball; Johns Hopkins University; 1/9/06–2/28/06
Gian Luca Benigno; London School of Economics; 4/3/06–4/21/06
Sami Bennaceur; IHEC Carthage, Tunisia; 2/27/06–3/31/06
Olivier Blanchard; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1/26/06
Olivier Blanchard; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3/13/06–3/24/06
Michael Bordo; Rutgers University; 2/1/06–2/28/06
William Brafu-Insaidoo; University of Cape Coast, Ghana; 3/20/06–4/28/06
Fernando Broner; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 4/10/06–4/14/06
Ehsan Choudhri; Carleton University, Canada; 2/21/06–2/24/06
Mario J. Crucini; Vanderbilt University; 4/12/06
Josh Ederington; University of Kentucky; 4/18/06–4/21/06
Miguel Fuentes; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 1/30/06–3/3/06
Marvin Goodfriend; Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond; 3/17/06–3/20/06
Hideaki Hirata; Hosei University, Japan; 3/22/06–3/31/06
Jean Imbs; University of Lausanne; 3/23/06–3/31/06
Mariusz Jarmuzek; University of Warwick; 3/13/06–4/14/06
Simon Johnson; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1/30/06–8/31/06
Jiandong Ju; University of Oklahoma; 2/6/06–2/10/06
Joong Shik Kang; University of Wisconsin; 3/13/06–4/7/06
Lutz Kilian; University of Michigan; 2/21/06–3/17/06
Sunghyun Henry Kim; Tufts University; 2/27/06–3/3/06
Michael Kremer; Harvard University; 2/20/06–2/24/06
Kala Krishna; Pennsylvania State University; 4/12/06–4/14/06
Anthony Kyereboah-Coleman; University of Ghana; 1/9/06–2/17/06
Xuepeng Liu; Syracuse University; 3/20/06–6/9/06
Nora Markova; Wolfson College, United Kingdom; 3/27/06–4/28/06
Ezo’o Martin; Universite de Yaounde II SOA, Cameroon; 3/1/06–4/11/06
Matthew Ocran; University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; 3/20/06–4/28/06
Anders Olofsgard; Georgetown University; 3/27/06–4/28/06
Olusanya (Elisa) Olubusoye; Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; 3/20/06–4/28/06
David Parsley; Owen Graduate School, Vanderbilt University; 2/21/06–2/24/06
Albrecht Ritschl; University of Pennsylvania; 3/8/06–3/10/06
John Romalis; University of Chicago; 3/7/06–3/13/06
Sergio Santoro; Bank of Italy; 3/20/06–3/24/06
Rene Stulz; Ohio State University; 2/2/06
Linda Tesar; University of Michigan; 4/3/06–4/7/06
Francis Warnock; Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; 1/3/06–2/28/06
Zhanwei (Vivian) Yue; New York University; 3/13/06–3/17/06
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