International Finance Discussion Papers
		1998 IFDPs IFDP ordering information

1998-632 (December 1998)
The Implications of Risk Management Information Systems for the Organization of Financial Firms
Michael S. Gibson
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1998-631 (December 1998)
Idiosyncratic Tastes in a Two-Country Optimizing Model: Implications of a Standard Presumption
Francis E. Warnock
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1998-630 (November 1998)
A Model of Crises in Emerging Markets
Michael P. Dooley
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1998-629 (October 1998)
Currency and Banking Crises: The Early Warnings of Distress
Graciela L. Kaminsky
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1998-628 (October 1998)
Inflation and the Great Ratios: Long-Term Evidence from the U.S.
Shaghil Ahmed and John H. Rogers
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1998-627 (October 1998)
Tradeoffs between Inflation and Output-Gap Variances in an Optimizing-Agent Model
Christopher J. Erceg; Dale W. Henderson; Andrew T. Levin
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1998-626 (October 1998)
A Framework for Economic Forecasting
Neil R. Ericsson and Jaime Marquez
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1998-625 (September 1998)
Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?
Susanto Basu, John G. Fernald, and Miles Kimball
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1998-624 (September 1998)
"Big Bang" Deregulation and Japanese Corporate Governance: A Survey of the Issues
Michael S. Gibson
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1998-623 (September 1998)
Relative Price Volatility: What Role Does the Border Play
Charles M. Engel and John H. Rogers
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1998-622 (September 1998)
Two Equivalence Theorems for Government Finance
Dahai Yu
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1998-621 (September 1998)
Rational Bubbles under Diverse Information
Dahai Yu
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1998-620 (August 1998)
What Determines Public Support for Affirmative Action?
Murat F. Iyigun and Andrew T. Levin
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1998-619 (August 1998)
Puzzles in the Chinese Stock Market
John G. Fernald and John H. Rogers
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1998-618 (August 1998)
Disintegration
Simeon Djankov and Caroline L. Freund
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1998-617 (August 1998)
The Business Cycles of Currency Speculation: A Revision of The Mundellian Framework
Enrique G. Mendoza and Martin Uribe
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1998-616 (June 1998)
Exogeneity, Cointegration, and Economic Policy Analysis
Neil R. Ericsson; David F. Hendry; Grayham E. Mizon
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1998-615 (June 1998)
Equilibrium Liquidity Premia
Dahai Yu
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1998-614 (June 1998, latest version May 1999)
Multilateralism and the Endogenous Formation of PTAs
Caroline L. Freund
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1998-613 (June 1998)
Macroeconomic Implications of Competitive College Admissions
Murat F. Iyigun and Andrew T. Levin
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1998-612 (May 1998)
Monetary Shocks and Real Exchange Rates
John H. Rogers
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1998-611 (May 1998)
Some Multi-Country Evidence on the Effects of Real Exchange Rates on Output
Steven B. Kamin and Marc Klau
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1998-610 (April 1998)
The Robustness of Identified VAR Conclusions about Money
Jon Faust
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1998-609 (April 1998)
Trade Elasticities for G-7 Countries
Peter Hooper, Karen Johnson, and Jaime Marquez
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1998-608 (April 1998)
El Niño and World Primary Commodity Prices: Warm Water or Hot Air?
Allan D. Brunner
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1998-607 (April 1998)
U.S. Monetary Policy and Econometric Modeling: Tales from the FOMC Transcripts 1984-1991
Hali J. Edison and Jaime Marquez
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1998-606 (March 1998)
Asset Bubbles, Domino Effects and ‘Lifeboats’: Elements of the East Asian Crisis
Hali J. Edison, Pongsak Luangaram, and Marcus Miller
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1998-605 (March 1998)
Transparency and Credibility: Monetary Policy with Unobservable Goals
Jon Faust and Lars E.O. Svensson
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1998-604 (March 1998)
Was China the First Domino? Assessing Links between China and the Rest of Emerging Asia
John G. Fernald, Hali J. Edison, and Prakash Loungani
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1998-603 (February 1998)
A Multi-Country Comparison of the Linkages Between Inflation and Exchange Rate Competitiveness
Steven B. Kamin
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1998-602 (January 1998)
Regionalism and Permanent Diversion
Caroline L. Freund
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1998-601 (January 1998)
The Choice of a Monetary Policy Reaction Function in a Simple Optimizing Model
Dale W. Henderson; Jinill Kim
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