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  • IPO Behavior in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: IMF Working Paper No....

    Working Paper No. 07/149: IPO Behavior in GCC Countries: Goody-Two Shoes or Bad-to-the-Bone? by Al-Hassan, Abdullah; Delgado, Fernando; Omran, Mohammed Summary: This paper documents the phenomenon of underpricing initial public...

    Posted on: July 31, 2007
  • IMF Country Report No. for Bangladesh

    IMF Country Report No. 07/234: Bangladesh: 2007 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Bangladesh Full Text ...

    Posted on: July 30, 2007
  • IMF Country Report No. 07/212: Uganda:

    Country Report No. 07/212: Uganda: First Review Under the Policy Support Instrument and Modifications to Assessment Criteria - Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by...

    Posted on: June 29, 2007
  • Working Paper No. 07/144: Europe and Global Imbalances

    Summary: Although Europe in the aggregate is a not a major contributor to global current account imbalances, its trade and financial linkages with the rest of the world mean that...

    Posted on: June 29, 2007
  • IMF Working Paper No. 07/142: VAT Attacks!

    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
  • IMF Working Paper No. 07/145: Measuring the Effect of Foreign Aid...

    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
  • IMF Working Paper No. 07/140 : June 1, 2007
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    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
  • International Financial Integration Through Equity Markets

    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 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
  • Country Report (IMF - No. 07195): Kyrgyz Republic

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    Posted on: June 12, 2007