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2187. Who Determines Mexican Trade Policy?
Jean-Marie Grether, Jaime de Melo, and Marcelo Olarreaga
2186. Contagion, Bank Lending Spreads, and Output Fluctuations
Pierre-Richard Agénor, Joshua Aizenman, and Alexander Hoffmaister
2185. Financial Sector Inefficiencies and Coordination Failures: Implications for Crisis Management
Pierre-Richard Agénor and Joshua Aizenman
2184. Financial Services and the World Trade Organization: Liberalization Commitments of the Developing and Transition Economies
Aaditya Mattoo
2182. The Integration of Transition Economies into the World Trading System
Constantine Michalopoulos
2172. The East Asian Crisis: Investigating Causes and Policy Responses
Warwick McKibbin and Will Martin
2171. Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture and Manufacturing
Will Martin and Devashish Mitra
2162. Quantifying the Fiscal Effects of Trade Reform
Shantayanan Devarajan, Delfin S. Go, and Hongyi Li
2161. Will the Real "Natural Trading Partner" Please Stand Up?
Maurice Schiff
2157. How Regional Blocs Affect Excluded Countries: The Price Effects of MERCOSUR
Won Chang and L. Alan Winters
2156. How Has Regionalism in the 1990s Affected Trade?
Isidro Soloaga and L. Alan Winters
2155. Lending Booms, Reserves, and the Sustainability of Short-Term Debt: Inferences from the Pricing of Syndicated Bank Loans
Barry Eichengreen and Ashoka Mody
2147. Developing Country Goals and Strategies for the Millennium Round
Constantine Michalopoulos
2142. Adjusting to Trade Policy Reform
Steven J. Matusz and David Tarr
2138. Multilateral Disciplines for Investment-Related Policies
Bernard Hoekman and Kamal Saggi
2137. Globalization and National Development at the End of the 20th Century: Tensions and
Challenges
Andrés Solimano
2132. A Regime-Switching Approach to Studying Speculative Attacks: A Focus on European Monetary System Crises
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
2130. Deep Integration, Nondiscrimination, and Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade
Bernard Hoekman and Denise Eby Konan
2125. Developing Country Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda
Bernard Hoekman and Kym Anderson
2120. Can Africa Export Manufactures? The Role of Endowment, Exchange Rates,
and Transaction Costs
Ibrahim A. Elbadawi
2118. Developing Countries and the Next Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Anne O. Krueger
2117. On the Size and Number
of Regional Integration
Arrangements: A Political Economy Model
Soamiely Andriamananjara
2115. Foreign Investment and
Productivity Growth in Czech Enterprises
Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman
2107. Approaches to Liberalizing Services
Sherry M. Stephenson
2094. What Triggers Market Jitters?
Graciela L. Kaminsky and Sergio L. Schmukler
2092. What Does Aid to Africa Finance?
Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar, and Vinaya Swaroop
2081. Reforming Côte d'Ivoire's Cocoa Marketing and Pricing System
John McIntire and Panos Varangis
2070. The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa
David Dollar and William Easterly
2067. Multinational Firms and Technology Transfer
Amy Jocelyn Glass and Kamal Saggi
2066. Flight Capital as a Portfolio Choice
Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler, and Catherine Pattillo
2056. Does a Thin Foreign Exchange Market Lead to Destabilizing Capital-Market Speculation in the Asian Crisis Countries?
Hong G. Min and Judith A. McDonald
2051. How Stronger Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Affect International Trade Flows
Carsten Fink and Carlos A. Primo Braga
2044. Trade, Migration, and Welfare: The Impact of Social Capital
Maurice Schiff
2025. Dynamic Capital Mobility, Capital Market Risk, and Exchange Rate Misalignment: Evidence from Seven Asian Countries
Hong G. Min
2012. Export Quotas and Policy Constraints in the Indian Textile and Garment Industries
Sanjay Kathuria and Anjali Bhardwaj
2008. Volatility and Contagion in a Financially Integrated World: Lessons from East Asia's Recent Experience
Pedro Alba, Amar Bhattacharya, Stijn Claessens, Swati Gosh, and Leonardo Hernandez
2007. Regional Integration Arragements: Static Economic Theory, Quantitative Findings, and Policy Guidelines
Dean A. DeRosa
2004. What Can Be Expected from African Regional Trade Arrangements?: Some Empirical Evidence
Alexander J. Yeats
2001. Measuring the Dynamic Gains from Trade
Romain Wacziarg
2000. GATT Experience with Safeguards: Making Economic and Political Sense of the Possibilities that the GATT Allows to Restrict Imports
J. Michael Finger
1992. The Present Outlook for Trade Negotiations in the World Trade Organization
John Croome
1976. Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Stijn Claessens, Daniel Oks, and Rossana Polastri
1970. Trade Liberalization and Endogenous Growth in a Small Open Economy: A Quantitative Assessment
Thomas F. Rutherford and David G. Tarr
1963. Commodity Risk Management and Development
Donald F. Larson, Panos Varangis, and Nanae Yabuki
1958. Total Strangers or Soul Mates? Antidumping and Competition Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
J. Luis Guash and Sarath Rajapatirana
1953. Trade Policies and Incentives in Indian Agriculture: Methodology, Background Statistics and Protection, and Incentive Indicators, 196595Background Paper 1, Sugar and Sugarcane
Garry Pursell and Anju Gupta
1950. Free Trade and DeepIntegration: Antidumping and Antitrust in Regional Agreements
Bernard Hoekman
1948. Comparative Advantage and the Cross-Section of Business Cycles
Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura
1944. Detecting Price Links in the World Cotton Market
John Baffes and Mohamed I. Ajwad
1939. Second Thoughts on Second Moments: Panel Evidence on Asset-Based Models of Currency Crises
Arturo J. Galindo and William F. Maloney
1934. WTO Accession for Countries in Transition
Constantine Michalopoulos
1923. When Vintage Technology Makes Sense: Matching Imports to Skills
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Isidro Soloaga, and Wendy Takacs
1922. Regional Groupings among Microstates
Soamiely Andriamananjara and Maurice Schiff
1915. Distortionary Effects of State Trading in Agriculture: Issues for the Next Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Merlinda Ingco and Francis Ng
1911. The Internalization of Financial Services in Asia
Stijn Claessens and Tom Glaessner
1906. Developing Countries' Participation in the World Trade Organization
Constantine Michalopoulos
1899. Determinants of Emerging Market Bond Spread: Do Economic Fundamentals Matter?
Hong G. Min
1898. Does Membership in a Regional Preferential Trade Arrangement Make a Country More or Less Protectionist?
Faezeh Foroutan
1887. The Structure of Derivatives Exchanges: Lessons from Developed and Emerging Markets
George Tsetsekos and Panos Varangis
1886. Country Funds and Asymmetric Information
Jeffrey A. Frankel and Sergio L. Schmukler
1872. How Integration into the Central African Economic Monetary Community Affects Cameroon's Economy: General Equilibrium Estimates
Ferdinand Bakoup and David Tarr
1871. Just How Big Is Global Production Sharing?
Alexander J. Yeats
1851. Transportation Infrastructure Investments and Regional Trade Liberalization
Eric W. Bond
1850. Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade between East and West Europe
Chonira Aturupane, Simeon Djankov, and Bernard Hoekman
1849. Regional Integration and Factor Income Taxation
Valeria De Bonis
1848. Regional Integration and Commodity Tax Harmonization
Valeria De Bonis
1847. Outsiders and Regional Trade Agreements among Small Countries: The Case of Regional Markets
Anju Gupta and Maurice Schiff
1846. Africa's Role in Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Zhen Kun Wang and L. Alan Winters
1838. The Limits and Merits of Participation
Paulo Vieira de Cunha and Maria Valeria Junho Peña
1831. How Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth
Wolfgang Keller
1826. Standards and Conformity Assessment as Nontariff Barriers to Trade
Sherry M. Stephenson
1823. Antidumping in Law and Practice
Raj Krishna
1817. Should Core Labor Standards Be Imposed through International Trade Policy?
Keith E. Maskus
1816. Returns to Regionalism: An Evaluation of Nontraditional Gains from Regional Trade Agreements
Raquel Fernandez
1815. Unfair Trade? Empirical Evidence in World Commodity Markets over the Past 25 Years
Jacques Morisset
1805. Regional Economic Integration and Agricultural Trade
Junichi Goto
1801. Regional Integration as Diplomacy
Maurice Schiff and L. Alan Winters
1792. Tradeoffs from Hedging Oil Price Risk in Ecuador
Sudhakar Satyanarayan and Eduardo Somensatto
1787. Trading Arrangements and Industrial Development
Diego Puga and Anthony J. Venables
1786. The Economics of Customs Unions in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Constantine Michalopoulos and David Tarr
1783. Trade Policy Options for Chile: A Quantitative
Evaluation
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, and David
G. Tarr
1782. Regional Integration and the Prices of Imports:
An Empirical Investigation
L. Alan Winters and Won Chang
1781. Technology Accumulation and Diffusion: Is There
a Regional Dimension?
Pier Carlo Padoan
1777. Aid, Policies, and Growth
Craig Burnside and David Dollar
1763. China and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency
Yushu Feng
1751. Using Tariff Indices to Evaluate Preferential
Trading Arrangements: An Application to Chile
Eric Bond
1750. Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment:
A Conceptual Framework and Three Cases
Magnus Blomström and Ari Kokko
1749. Applying Economic Analysis to Technical Assistance
Projects
Gary McMahon
1748. Has Agricultural Trade Liberalization Improved
Welfare in the Least-Developed Countries? Yes
Merlinda D. Ingco
1747. Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey
Bernard Hoekman and Carlos A. Primo Braga
1745. How Foreign Investment Affects Host Countries
Magnus Blomström and Ari Kokko
1742. Transport Costs and "Natural" Integration
in Mercosur
Azita Amjadi and L. Alan Winters
1740. When is Foreign Aid Policy Credible? Aid Dependence
and Conditionality
Jakob Svensson
1734. Are Markets Learning? Behavior in the Secondary Market for Brady Bonds
Luca Barbone and Lorenzo Forni
1733. The Usefulness of Private and Public Information for Foreign Investment Decisions
Yuko Kinoshita and Ashoka Mody
1732. Agricultural Trade and Rural Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Recent Developments and Prospects
Dean A. DeRosa
1730. Have Trade Policy Reforms Led to Greater Openness in Developing Countries?
Shuby Andriamananjara and John Nash
1729. Does Mercosur's Trade Performance Raise Concerns about the Effects of Regional Trade Arrangements?
Alexander Yeats
1720. The Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in China
Harry G. Broadman and Xiaolun Sun
1712. Demand Elasticities in International Trade: Are They Really Low?
Arvind Panagariya, Shekhar Shah, and Deepak Mishra
1707. Trade Reorientation and Productivity Growth in Bulgarian Enterprises
Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman
1696. South-North Migration and Trade: A Survey
Maurice Schiff