 | Financial Reform : What Shakes It? What Shapes It? Author/Editor: Ashoka Mody, Abdul Abiad. Release Date:July, 2005 Financial sector liberalization was high on the agenda of policymakers during the last quarter of the twentieth century. But there were significant differences in the pace and scale of reform. This more...
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 | Underlying Factors Driving Fiscal Effort in Emerging Market Economies Author/Editor: Taimur Baig, Abdul Abiad. Release Date:June, 2005 Using a panel dataset of 34 emerging market countries for the period 1990-2002, we examine the roles of various economic, political, and institutional variables in determining fiscal effort, as more...
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| The Quality Effect : Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocation of Capital? Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad, Nienke Oomes, Kenichi Ueda. Release Date:June, 2004 The study documents evidence of a quality effect of financial liberalization on allocative efficiency, which is measured by the dispersion in Tobin's Q across firms. Based on a simple model, the more...
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| Financial Reform : What Shakes it? What Shapes it? Author/Editor: Ashoka Mody, Abdul Abiad. Release Date:April, 2003 Despite stops, gaps, and reversals, financial reforms advanced worldwide in the last quarter century. Using a new index of financial liberalization, we conclude that influential events shook the more...
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| Early Warning Systems : A Survey and a Regime-Switching Approach Author/Editor: Abdul Abiad. Release Date:February, 2003 Previous early-warning systems (EWSs) for currency crises have relied on models that require a priori dating of crises. This paper proposes an alternative EWS, based on a Markov-switching model, more...
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