Staff Discussion Notes

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Staff Discussion Notes

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No. 12/04

Fiscal Frameworks for Resourc e Rich Developing Countries

Thomas Baunsgaard, Mauricio Villafuerte, Marcos Poplawski-

Ribeiro, and Christine Richmond

No. 12/05

Externalit ies and Macroprudential Policy

Gianni De Nicolò, Giovanni Favara, and Lev Ratnovski

No. 12/06

Policies for Macrofinancia l Stability: How to Deal with Credit Booms

Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Deniz Igan, Luc Laeven, and Hui Tong,

with Bas Bakker and Jérôme Vandenbussche

No. 12/07

Fostering Growth in Eu rope Now

Bergljot Barkbu, Jesmin Rahman, Rodrigo Valdés, and a staff team

No. 12/08

Income Inequality and Fis cal Policy

Francesca Bastagli, David Coady, and Sanjeev Gupta

No. 12/09

What Lies Beneath: The Stat istical Definition of Public Sector Debt

An Overview of the Coverage of Public Sector Debt for 61 Countries

Robert Dippelsman, Claudia Dziobek, and Carlos A. Gutiérrez Mangas

Christopher Adam, University of

Oxford, UK: 8/14/12–8/2 4/12

Laurence Ball, Johns Hopkins Univer-

sity: 5/1/12 –4/30/13

Edward Bue, Indi ana University:

6/11/12–7/6/12

Kevin Clinton: 7/2/12–8 /31/12

Martin Fuk ac, Federal Reserve Bank of

Kansas City: 6/25/12–7/6/12

Vivek Ghosal, School of Economics

at Georgia Institute of Technology:

7/23 /12–7/2 7/12

Joao Jalles, European C entral

Bank/Universit y of Aberdeen:

6/4/12–7/13/12

Robert Johnson , Dartmouth Col lege:

2/23/12 –8/31/12

Alberto Migue l Martin, Universit at

Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain:

7/16/12–7/20/12

Maurice Obstfeld, University of

California, Berkeley: 7/17/1 2–7/27/1 2

Kalyan Rama n, Kellogg School of

Management, Northwestern

University: 5/1/12– 4/30/13

Jack Selody, Bank of Canada:

4/23/12 –4/30/13

Jay Shambaugh, Dartmout h College:

12/12/11–12/31/12

Visiting Scholars, June 2012–September 2012