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Financial DevelopmentFinancial Globalization and Financial Development| WPS6218 | Sovereign defaults and expropriations : empirical regularities | Eden, Maya; Kraay, Aart; Qian, Rong | 2012/10 | | WPS6209 | How firms use domestic and international corporate bond markets | Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Peria, Maria Soledad Martinez; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2012/09 | | WPS6105 | Financial globalization in emerging countries : diversification vs. offshoring | Ceballos, Francisco; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2012/06 | | WPS6072 | On the international transmission of shocks : micro-evidence from mutual fund portfolios | Raddatz, Claudio; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2012/05 | | WPS6059 | Should Wall-Street be occupied ? an overlooked price externality of financial intermediation | Eden, Maya | 2012/05 | | WPS6001 | The cross-country magnitude and determinants of collateral borrowing | Nguyen, Ha; Qian, Rong | 2012/03 | | WPS5993 | Why do some countries default more often than others ? the role of institutions | Qian, Rong | 2012/03 | | WPS5870 | Consumption baskets and currency choice in international borrowing | Bengui, Julien; Nguyen, Ha | 2011/11 | | WPS5777 | Engendering trade | Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Raddatz, Claudio | 2011/08 | | WPS5768 | Gross capital flows : dynamics and crises | Broner, Fernando; Didier, Tatiana; Erce, Aitor; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2011/08 |
Investment Climate and the Microeconomics of Growth| WPS6244 | Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing : an application to occupational allocation in Africa | Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; Sarrias, Mauricio | 2012/10 | | WPS6187 | The persistence of (subnational) fortune : geography, agglomeration, and institutions in the new world | Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia | 2012/09 | | WPS6066 | Gender and rural non-farm entrepreneurship | Rijkers, Bob; Costa, Rita | 2012/05 | | WPS5789 | Ladies first ? firm-level evidence on the labor impacts of the East Asian crisis | Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Rijkers, Bob; Waxman, Andrew | 2011/09 | | WPS5321 | Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it | Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Khun-Jush, Gita; Pritchett, Lant | 2010/05 | | WPS5218 | The impact of the investment climate on employment growth : does Sub-Saharan Africa mirror other low-income regions ? | Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary | 2010/02 | | WPS5085 | Creative destruction and policy reforms : changing productivity effects of firm turnover in Moroccan manufacturing | Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Thompson, Fraser | 2009/10 | | WPS5106 | Mind the neighbors : the impact of productivity and location on firm turnover | Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Thompson, Fraser | 2009/10 | | WPS5084 | Who survives ? the impact of corruption, competition and property rights across firms | Hallward-Driemeier, Mary | 2009/10 | | WPS5054 | Comparing Apples with....Apples : how to make (more) sense of subjective rankings of constraints to business | Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Aterido, Reyes | 2009/09 |
Macroeconomic Volatility| WPS5929 | Financial distortions and the distribution of global volatility | Eden, Maya | 2012/01 | | WPS5590 | Over the hedge : exchange rate volatility, commodity price correlations, and the structure of trade | Raddatz, Claudio | 2011/03 | | WPS5564 | How do governments respond after catastrophes ? natural-disaster shocks and the fiscal stance | Melecky, Martin; Raddatz, Claudio | 2011/02 | | WPS5408 | Credit constraints and the north-south transmission of crises | Nguyen, Ha | 2010/08 | | WPS5039 | The wrath of God : macroeconomic costs of natural disasters | Raddatz, Claudio | 2009/09 | | WPS5002 | The growth aftermath of natural disasters | Fomby, Thomas; Ikeda, Yuki; Loayza, Norman | 2009/07 | | WPS4980 | Natural disasters and growth - going beyond the averages | Loayza, Norman; Olaberria, Eduardo; Rigolini, Jamele; Christiaensen, Luc | 2009/06 | | WPS4897 | Emerging market fluctuations : what makes the difference ? | Hevia, Constantino | 2009/04 | | WPS4445 | Emerging market liquidity and crises | Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, Neeltje | 2007/12 | | WPS4382 | Fiscal rules, public investment, and growth | Serven, Luis | 2007/11 |
Economic Growth| WPS6147 | Does the minimum wage affect employment ? evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia | Del Carpio, Ximena; Nguyen, Ha; Wang, Liang Choon | 2012/07 | | WPS6099 | Government spending multipliers in developing countries : evidence from lending by official creditors | Kraay, Aart | 2012/06 | | WPS6026 | Productivity and the welfare of nations | Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serven, Luis | 2012/04 | | WPS6015 | Do middle classes bring institutional reforms ? | Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo | 2012/03 | | WPS5978 | Using pooled information and bootstrap methods to assess debt sustainability in low income countries | Hevia, Constantino | 2012/02 | | WPS5959 | The impact of wealth on the amount and quality of child labor | Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Loayza, Norman V. | 2012/01 | | WPS5763 | More than you can handle : decentralization and spending ability of Peruvian municipalities | Loayza, Norman V.; Rigolini, Jamele; Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar | 2011/08 | | WPS5701 | Export quality dynamics | Krishna, Pravin; F. Maloney, William | 2011/06 | | WPS5682 | Is infrastructure capital productive ? a dynamic heterogeneous approach | Calderon, Cesar; Moral-Benito, Enrique; Serven, Luis | 2011/06 | | WPS5529 | Saving and growth in Egypt | Hevia, Constantino; Loayza, Norman | 2011/01 |
Institutions and Governance| WPS6254 | Income risk, income mobility and welfare | Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William F. | 2012/10 | | WPS6223 | Making up people -- the effect of identity on preferences and performance in a modernizing society | Hoff, Karla; Pandey, Priyanka | 2012/10 | | WPS6064 | Experiments in culture and corruption : a review | Banuri, Sheheryar; Eckel, Catherine | 2012/05 | | WPS5952 | Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits | Keefer, Philip; Khemani, Stuti | 2012/01 | | WPS5760 | Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences | Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla | 2011/08 | | WPS5676 | Collective action, political parties and pro-development public policy | Keefer, Philip | 2011/06 | | WPS5646 | Good countries or good projects ? macro and micro correlates of World Bank project performance | Denizer, Cevdet; Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart | 2011/05 | | WPS5415 | Does respondent reticence affect the results of corruption surveys ? evidence from the world bank enterprise survey for Nigeria | Clausen, Bianca; Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter | 2010/09 | | WPS5430 | The worldwide governance indicators : methodology and analytical issues | Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo | 2010/09 | | WPS5254 | Can disaggregated indicators identify governance reform priorities ? | Kraay, Aart; Tawara, Norikazu | 2010/03 |
Financial Globalization| WPS4649 | Bank involvement with SMEs : beyond relationship lending | de la Torre, Augusto; Soledad Martinez Peria, Maria; Schmukler , Sergio L. | 2008/06 | | WPS4184 | Stock market development under globalization : whither the gains from reforms ? | de la Torre, Augusto; Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2007/04 | | WPS4132 | The international financial integration of China and India | Lane, Philip R.; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2007/02 | | WPS3933 | Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation | Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2006/06 | | WPS3897 | International financial integration through the law of one price | Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, Neeltje | 2006/04 | | WPS3517 | Trade liberalization and the politics of financial development | Braun, Matias; Raddatz, Claudio | 2005/02 | | WPS3440 | Market discipline under systemic risk - evidence from bank runs in emerging economies | Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2004/11 | | WPS3322 | Tango with the Gringo: the hard peg and real misalignment in Argentina | Alberola, Enrique; Lopez, Humberto; Serven, Luis | 2004/06 | | WPS3192 | Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions - feedback and macroeconomic effects | Calderon, Cesar; Loayza, Norman; Serven, Luis | 2004/01 | | 30141 | Financial globalization: gain and pain for developing countries | Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2003/12 |
Financial Crises and Contagion| WPS5203 | When the rivers run dry : liquidity and the use of wholesale funds in the transmission of the U.S. subprime crisis | Raddatz, Claudio | 2010/02 | | WPS4897 | Emerging market fluctuations : what makes the difference ? | Hevia, Constantino | 2009/04 | | WPS4807 | Are all the sacred cows dead ? implications of the financial crisis for macro and financial policies | Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Serven, Luis | 2009/01 | | WPS4770 | Crises, capital controls, and financial integration | Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, Neeltje | 2008/11 | | WPS4445 | Emerging market liquidity and crises | Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, Neeltje | 2007/12 | | WPS3440 | Market discipline under systemic risk - evidence from bank runs in emerging economies | Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2004/11 | | WPS3389 | Why do emerging economies borrow short term? | Broner, Fernando A.; Lorenzoni, Guido; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2004/09 | | WPS3161 | Liquidity needs and vulnerability to financial udnerdevelopment | Raddatz, Claudio | 2003/11 | | WPS3173 | Distributional effects of crises : the role of financial transfers | Marina Halac; Sergio Schmukler | 2003/11 | | WPS3146 | The price of inconvertible deposits - the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis | Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio L.; Van Horen, Neeltje | 2003/10 |
International Capital Flows| WPS6072 | On the international transmission of shocks : micro-evidence from mutual fund portfolios | Raddatz, Claudio; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2012/05 | | WPS5700 | Deconstructing herding : evidence from pension fund investment behavior | Raddatz, Claudio; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2011/06 | | WPS5174 | Valuation effects with transitory and trend productivity shocks | Nguyen, Ha | 2010/01 | | WPS4872 | Multilateral debt relief through the eyes of financial markets | Raddatz, Claudio | 2009/03 | | WPS4807 | Are all the sacred cows dead ? implications of the financial crisis for macro and financial policies | Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Serven, Luis | 2009/01 | | WPS4184 | Stock market development under globalization : whither the gains from reforms ? | de la Torre, Augusto; Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2007/04 | | WPS4156 | Capital market development : whither Latin America ? | de la Torre, Augusto; Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2007/03 | | WPS3320 | Country Portfolios | Kraay, Aart; Loayza, Norman; Serven, Luis; Ventura, Jaume | 2004/06 | | WPS3200 | When is external debt sustainable? | Kraay, Aart; Nehru, Vikram | 2004/02 | | WPS3192 | Greenfield foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions - feedback and macroeconomic effects | Calderon, Cesar; Loayza, Norman; Serven, Luis | 2004/01 |
Exchange Rates| WPS4636 | Real exchange rates, saving and growth : is there a link ? | Montiel, Peter J.; Serven, Luis | 2008/05 | | WPS3497 | What does regional trade in South Asia reveal about future trade integration? Some empirical evidence | Pitigala, Nihal | 2005/02 | | WPS3322 | Tango with the Gringo: the hard peg and real misalignment in Argentina | Alberola, Enrique; Lopez, Humberto; Serven, Luis | 2004/06 | | WPS2980 | Living and dying with hard pegs : the rise and fall of Argentina's currency board | De la Torre, Augusto; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2003/03 | | WPS2903 | Financial globalization : unequal blessings | De la Torre, Augusto; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio L. | 2002/10 | | WPS2823 | Real exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in developing countries | Serven, Luis | 2002/04 | | WPS2815 | Pricing currency risk : facts and puzzles from currency boards | Schmukler, Sergio L.; Serven, Luis | 2002/03 | | WPS2424 | Global transmission of interest rates : monetary independence and the currency regime | Frankel, Jeffrey; Schmukler, Sergio; Serven, Luis | 2000/08 | | WPS2397 | Verifying exchange rate regimes | Serven, Luis; Frankel, Jeffrey; Fajnzylber, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio | 2000/07 | | WPS1298 | Capital goods imports, the real exchange rate, and the current account | Serven, Luis | 1994/05 |
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