Summary: Like the theory of the second best that the 2006 congress marks, the VAT is now fifty years old. Judged by the extent and speed of its spread around...
Posted on: June 29, 2007
Summary: Regressions in a number of recent papers written by staff members of the World Bank and the IMF rely on an interaction variable (IAV) to establish the effects of...
Posted on: June 29, 2007
Working Paper No. 07/140: Complex Ownership Structures and Corporate Summary: The bulk of corporate governance theory examines the agency problems that arise from two extreme ownership structures: 100 percent small shareholders...
Posted on: June 26, 2007
IMF Working Paper No. 07/138: International Financial Integration Through Equity Markets: Which Firms from Which Countries Go Global? Claessens, Stijn ; Schmukler, Sergio L. This paper studies international financial integration analyzing firms from various...
Posted on: June 23, 2007
IMF Survey -- June 18, 2007: IMF work agenda; IMF exchange rate advice; Asia's trade pacts; Central Asia: economic cooperation; Cameroon after debt relief; spread of Austrian banks; conference on...
Posted on: June 18, 2007
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Posted on: June 6, 2007
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Posted on: June 4, 2007
This paper explores international bond spillovers using daily and intra-day data on yields on inflation-indexed bonds and associated inflation expectations for the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, Japan, and...
Posted on: June 2, 2007
The inclusion puts the IDB in the same profile enjoyed by 13 other multilateral development banks like the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, African...
Posted on: June 1, 2007