Abstract
The Research Summaries in the March 2013 Research Bulletin discuss "Trade Finance and Its Role in the Great Trade Collapse" (JaeBin Ahn) and "Sovereign Debt: How to Track Who Is Buying and Selling It" (Serkan Arslanalp and Takahiro Tsuda). The Q&A looks at "Seven Questions on the Implications of Global Supply Chains for Real Effective Exchange Rates" (Rudolfs Bems). Readers can also find in this issue a listing of recent IMF Working Papers, Staff Discussion Notes, and Recommended Readings from IMF Publications. The Bulletin also includes a call for papers for a research conference and information on free access to the IMF Economic Review in April.
Staff Discussion Notes showcase new policy-related analysis and research by IMF departments. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and are aimed at a broad audience interested in economic policy issues. For more information on this series and to download the papers in this series, please visit: www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/createx/Publications.aspx?page=sdn
No. 12/12
Shadow Banking: Economics and Policy
Stijn Claessens, Zoltan Pozsar, Lev Ratnovski, and Manmohan Singh
No. 12/13
Economic Diversification in LICs: Stylized Facts and Macroeconomic Implications
Chris Papageorgiou and Nikola Spatafora
No. 13/01
A Banking Union for the Euro Area
Rishi Goyal, Petya Koeva Brooks, Mahmood Pradhan, Thierry Tressel, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Ross Leckow, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, and an IMF Staff Team