Abstract
The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about policy options for emerging market countries (by Marcos Chamon, Chris Crowe, and Jun Il Kim); research summaries on “Does Trade and Financial Globalization Cause Income Inequality?” (by Chris Papageorgiou) and “The Current Account of Oil-Exporting Countries (by Irineu E. de Carvalho Filho); an article on the launch of the IMF’s new research journal, IMF Economic Review, and the contents of the upcoming IMF Staff Papers, which the new the new journal will succeed in 2010; an article on the upcoming Tenth Annual Jacques Polak Research Conference; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during July–September 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes.
Volume 56 Number 3
Trade Openness and Growth: Pursuing Empirical Glasnost
Andreas Billmeier, and Tommaso Nannicini
Public Debt, Money Supply, and Inflation: A Cross-Country Study
Goohoon Kwon, Lavern McFarlane, and Wayne Robinson
Net Capital Flows, Financial Integration, and International Reserve Holdings: The Recent Experience of Emerging Markets and Advanced Economies
Woon Gyu Choi, Sunil Sharma, and Maria Strömqvist
Special Section: Current Account Sustainability in Major Advanced Economies Introduction
Akito Matsumoto
Expected Consumption Growth from Cross-Country Surveys: Implications for Assessing International Capital Markets
Charles Engel and John H Rogers
Global Dispersion of Current Accounts: Is the Universe Expanding?
Hamid Faruqee and Jaewoo Lee
How Long Can the Unsustainable U.S. Current Account Deficit Be Sustained?
Carol C. Bertaut, Steven B. Kamin, and Charles P. Thomas
Asset Prices and Current Account Fluctuations in G-7 Economies
Marcel Fratzscher and Roland Straub
Global Imbalances, Productivity Differentials, and Financial Integration
Suparna Chakraborty and Robert Dekle
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