Staff Discussion Notes

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No. 13/01

A Banking Union for the Euro Area

Rishi Goyal, Petya Koeva Brooks, Mahmood Pradhan,

ierry Tressel, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Ross Leckow, Ceyla

Pazarbasioglu, and an IMF Sta Team

No. 13/02

Labor Market Policies and IMF Advice in Advanced

Economies During the Great Recession

Olivier Blanchard, Florence Jaumotte, and

Prakash Loungani

No. 13/03

Rethinking Macro Policy II: Getting Granular

Olivier Blanchard, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, and Paolo Mauro

No. 13/04

Creating a Safer Financial System: Will the Volcker,

Vickers, and Liikanen Structural Measures Help?

José Viñals, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Jay Surti, Aditya Narain,

Michaela Erbenova, and Julian Chow

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