Abstract
IMF research summaries on global population aging and pension reform (by Mario Catalán) and on questions about decoupling (by M. Ayhan Kose); country study on the United States (by Koshy Mathai); listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during June–August 2008; listing of contents of Vol. 55 No. 3 of IMF Staff Papers; listing of recent IMF Working Papers; and a listing of recent external publications by IMF staff.
Journal Articles
Alina, Luca; Petrova, Iva
“What Drives Credit Dollarization in Transition Economies?”
Journal of Banking & Finance
Apergis, Nicholas; Lyroudi, Katerina; Vamvakidis, Athanasios
“The Relationship Between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transition Countries”
Transition Studies Review
Bonato, Leo
“Money and Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance
Bulíř, Aleš; Hurnik, Jaromir
“Why Has Inflation in the European Union Stopped Converging?”
Journal of Policy Modeling
Bulíř, Aleš; Šmídkova, Kateřiná
“Inflation Targeting and Communication”
Czech National Bank Economic Research Bulletin
Celasun, Oya; Walliser, Jan
“Predictability of Aid: Do Fickle Donors Undermine Aid Effectiveness?”
Economic Policy
Chami, Ralph; Sharma, Sunil; Shim, Ilhyock
“A Model of the IMF as a Coinsurance Arrangement”
E-Journal
Dabla-Norris, Era; Inchauste, Gabriela
“What Causes Firms to Hide Output? The Determinants of Informality”
Journal of Development Economics
Debrun, Xavier; Moulin, Laurent; Turrini, Alessandro; Ayuso-i-Casals, Joaquim; Kumar, Manmohan
“Tied to the Mast? National Fiscal Rules in the European Union”
Economic Policy
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu
“Old-Age Benefits and Retirement Decisions of Rural Elderly in Brazil”
Journal of Development Economics
Estevao, Marcello
“The 35-Hour Workweek in France: Straightjacket or Welfare Improvement”
Economic Policy
Ganelli, Giovanni
“Public Spending Management and Macroeconomic Interdependence”
Open Economies Review
Gershenson, Dmitry; Amelina, Maria
“Seductions of an Underdevelopment Trap: Systemic Impediments to Agricultural Reform in Russia”
Economic Policy (Moscow)
Ghironi, Fabio; Iscan, Talan; Rebucci, Alessandro
“Net Foreign Asset Positions and Consumption Dynamics in the International Economy”
Journal of International Money and Finance
Kaltani, Linda; Elbadawi, Ibrahim; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus
“Foreign Aid, the Real Exchange Rate, and Economic Growth in the Aftermath of Civil Wars”
World Bank Economic Review
Kandil, Magda
“Comparative Analysis of Exchange Rate Depreciation and Aggregate Economic Activity: Theory and Evidence from Middle Eastern Countries”
Bulletin of Economic Research
Kandil, Magda
“Exchange Rate Fluctuations and the Macro-Economy: Channels of Interaction in Developing and Developed Countries”
Eastern Economic Journal
Kandil, Magda
“The Asymmetric Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Output and Price: Evidence from Developing Countries”
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development
Kandil, Magda
“The Impact of Capital Requirements on Banks’ Performance: The Case of Egypt”
Journal of Economics and Business
Moore, David; Vamvakidis, Athanasios
“Economic Growth in Croatia: Potential and Constraints”
Financial Theory and Practice
Rebucci, Alessandro
“Is Growth Exogenous? Evidence from the 1970s and the 1980s”
Applied Economics
Ricci, Luca
“A Model of an Optimum Currency Area”
Economics
Rossi, Marco
“Pricing IMF Liquidity Provision: The Value of IMF Liquidity Commitment”
Emerging Markets Review
Solé, Juan
“Prospects and Challenges for Developing Corporate Sukuk and Bond Markets: Lessons from a Kuwait Case Study”
International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
Worrell, DeLisle; Craigwell, Roland; Mitchell, Travis
“The Behaviour of a Small Foreign Exchange Market with a Long-term Peg—Barbados”
Applied Financial Economics
Worrell, DeLisle; Craigwell, Roland
“The Competitiveness of Selected Caribbean Tourism Markets”
Social and Economic Studies
Other External Publications (Books, Conference Volumes, etc.)
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.
“Anticipating Credit Events Using Credit Default Swaps”
Credit Risk: Models, Derivatives, and Management—A Volume in Quantitative Finance (Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC)
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Yinqiu
“Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risk in CDO Tranches”
The Credit Derivatives Handbook (New York: McGraw Hill)
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Santos, Andrâe
“The Asset-Liability Management Compound Option Model: A Public Debt Management Tool”
Handbook of Value-at-Risk (New York: Bloomberg Press)
González-Hermosillo, Brenda; Li, Jenny
“A Banking Firm Model: The Role of Market, Liquidity and Credit Risks”
Computational Methods in Financial Engineering (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag)