Author/Editor: Pragyan Deb, Harald Finger, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Yosuke Kido, Siddharth Kothari, Evan Papageorgiou, Henry Hoyle, Anne Oeking.

Release Date:December, 2022

The paper intends to highlight challenges in Asian housing markets linked to fast price rises especially in the advanced economies since COVID, and more broadly including many EMs in the period more...

Author/Editor: Gee Hee Hong, Anne Oeking, Kenneth H Kang, Changyong Rhee.

Release Date:August, 2019

Asian countries have high demand for U.S. dollars and are sensitive to U.S. dollar funding costs. An important, but often overlooked, component of these costs is the basis spread in the more...

Author/Editor: Sandile Hlatshwayo, Anne Oeking, Manuk Ghazanchyan, David Corvino, Ananya Shukla, Lamin Y Leigh.

Release Date:August, 2018

Corruption is macro-relevant for many countries, but is often hidden, making measurement of it—and its effects—inherently difficult. Existing indicators suffer from several weaknesses, including more...

Author/Editor: Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, Anne Oeking.

Release Date:May, 2018

We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes. Remittances appear to have a strong impact on both labor supply and labor demand in recipient countries. These more...

Author/Editor: Anne Oeking, Mariusz A Sumlinski.

Release Date:November, 2016

In this paper, we consider incidences of arrears to the IMF, focusing on protracted arrears cases and attempt to identify determinants of their occurrence. We use narrative and formal more...

Author/Editor: Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian H Ebeke, Anne Oeking.

Release Date:March, 2016

Despite welfare and poverty-reducing benefits for recipient households, remittance inflows have been shown to entail macroeconomic challenges; producing Dutch Disease-type effects through their more...