Author/Editor: Alex Segura-Ubiergo, Taline Koranchelian, Carlos Mulas-Granados.

Release Date:July, 2008

Subsidy reform has been a key component of the pre-accession reform agenda of the 10 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EU-10). During the pre-accession period, these countries had to more...

Author/Editor: Xavier Debrun, Peter S Heller, Theo Thomas, Menachem Katz, Isabell Adenauer, Taline Koranchelian.

Release Date:December, 2006

Debt relief and the scaling up of aid to low-income countries should allow for greater fiscal space for expenditure programs to create long-term growth and lower poverty rates. But designing a more...

Author/Editor: Taline Koranchelian.

Release Date:July, 2005

Drawing on the existing literature, I estimate a long-run equilibrium real exchange rate path for Algeria. I find that the Balassa-Samuelson effect together with real oil prices explain the long-run more...

Author/Editor: Domenico Fanizza, Taline Koranchelian.

Release Date:May, 2005

This paper applies a search matching model with firing restrictions to examine whether the existence of firing restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of more...