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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Author/Editor: Shawn Cole, Xavier Gine, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, James Ian Vickery. Release Date: July, 2012 Price: $18.00Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and more... |
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The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology
Author/Editor: Jaromir Benes, Marcelle Chauvet, Ondra Kamenik, Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton, Susanna Mursula, Jack Selody. Release Date: May, 2012 Price: $18.00We discuss and reconcile two diametrically opposed views concerning the future of world oil production and prices. The geological view expects that physical constraints will dominate the future more... |
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China's Impact on World Commodity Markets
Author/Editor: Shaun K. Roache. Release Date: May, 2012 Price: $18.00Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some base metals. In contrast, shocks to apparent commodity-specific consumption (in more... |
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Remittances Channel and Fiscal Impact in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
Author/Editor: Yasser Abdih, Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, Christian Ebeke. Release Date: April, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper identifies a remittances channel that transmits exogenous shocks, such as business cycles in remittance-sending countries, to the public finances of remittance-receiving countries. Using more... |
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Philippines: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: March, 2012 Price: $18.00 |
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 2011 Article IV Consultation
Release Date: December, 2011 Price: $18.00 |
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Commodity Price Cycles : The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom
Author/Editor: Sebastian Sosa, Gustavo Adler. Release Date: December, 2011 Price: $18.00Commodity-exporting countries have significantly benefited from the commodity price boom of recent years. At the current juncture, however, uncertain global economic prospects have raised questions more... |
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Inflation Dynamics in Asia : Causes, Changes, and Spillovers From China
Author/Editor: Carolina Osorio, Filiz Unsal. Release Date: November, 2011 Price: $18.00The perception that Asia''s inflation dynamics is driven by idiosyncratic supply shocks implies, as a corollary, that there is little scope for a policy reaction to a build-up of inflationary more... |
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Indonesia: 2011 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Indonesia
Release Date: October, 2011 Price: $18.00 |
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Australia; Selected Issues
Release Date: October, 2011 Price: $18.00 |
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Inflation Targeting and Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanisms in Emerging Market Economies
Author/Editor: Sanchita Mukherjee, Rina Bhattacharya. Release Date: October, 2011 Price: $18.00In this paper we empirically examine the operation of the traditional Keynesian interest rate channel of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in five potential inflation targeting economies in more... |
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Global Rebalancing : Implications for Low-Income Countries
Author/Editor: Yongzheng Yang. Release Date: October, 2011 Price: $18.00While global rebalancing will mainly involve structural realignment among major advanced and emerging market economies, it could have significant impact on low-income countries (LICs). Simulations more... |
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People's Republic of China: Spillover Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation and Selected Issues.
Release Date: July, 2011 Price: $18.00 |
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Reviving the Competitive Storage Model: A Holistic Approach to Food Commodity Prices : A Holistic Approach to Food Commodity Prices
Release Date: March, 2011 Price: $20.00We revive in this paper the empirical relevance of the competitive storage model by taking a holistic approach to food commodity prices. We augment the seminal Deaton and Laroque (1992, 1996) model more... |
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A Barrel of Oil or a Bottle of Wine : How Do Global Growth Dynamics Affect Commodity Prices?
Author/Editor: Tahsin Saadi Sedik, Serhan Cevik. Release Date: January, 2011 Price: $18.00This paper investigates the causes of extreme fluctuations in commodity prices from 1990 to 2010. Analyzing two very distinct commodities-crude oil and fine wine, we find that macroeconomic factors more... |
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