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November 2010


Title:	Lifting Euro Area Growth: Priorities for Structural Reforms and Governance
Author/Editor:	Everaert, Luc ; Allard, Céline
Series:	Staff Position Note SPN10/9

Date:	November 22, 2010
Subject(s):	Labor markets \| Governance \| Economic growth \| Financial sector \| Fiscal reforms \| Labor market reforms \| Services sector



Title:	Cross-Cutting Themes in Employment Experiences during the Crisis
Author/Editor:	Vamvakidis, Athanasios ; Vitek, Francis ; Nkusu, Mwanza ; Darius, Reginald ; Thomas, Alun ; Vidon, Edouard
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/18

Date:	November 11, 2010
Subject(s):	Employment \| Labor markets \| Economic recession \| External shocks \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Labor market policy



Title:	The Human Cost of Recessions: Assessing It, Reducing It
Author/Editor:	Dao, Mai ; Loungani, Prakash
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/17

Date:	November 11, 2010
Subject(s):	Unemployment \| Labor markets \| Developed countries \| Economic recession \| Emerging markets \| Fiscal consolidation \| Human capital \| Wage policy



Title:	Impact of Regulatory Reforms on Large and Complex Financial Institutions
Author/Editor:	Ötker, Inci ; Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/16

Date:	November 03, 2010
Subject(s):	Bank reforms \| Bank supervision \| Banking \| Basel Core Principles \| Capital controls \| Liquidity controls

October 2010


Title:	Shaping the New Financial System
Author/Editor:	Moretti, Marina ; Narain, Aditya ; Kodres, Laura ; Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla ; Vinãls, José ; Fiechter, Jonathan
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/15

Date:	October 01, 2010
Subject(s):	Banks \| Bank reforms \| Bank resolution \| Bank supervision \| Banking sector \| Credit risk \| Financial risk \| Financial stability \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Nonbank financial sector

September 2010


Title:	Reaching the MDGs: An Action Plan for Trade
Author/Editor:	McDonald, Bradley ; Gregory, Rob ; Elborgh-Woytek, Katrin
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/14

Date:	September 15, 2010
Subject(s):	Developed countries \| Emerging markets \| Export competitiveness \| Low-income developing countries \| Millennium Development Goals \| Tariff reforms \| Tax reforms \| Trade integration \| Trade policy



Title:	Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies
Author/Editor:	Schaechter, Andrea ; Cottarelli, Carlo
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/13

Date:	September 01, 2010
Subject(s):	Public debt \| Fiscal consolidation \| Aging \| Developed countries \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Government expenditures \| Group of seven \| Public finance \| Tax revenues \| Taxation



Title:	Default in Today's Advanced Economies: Unnecessary, Undesirable, and Unlikely
Author/Editor:	Cottarelli, Carlo ; Mauro, Paolo ; Forni, Lorenzo ; Gottschalk, Jan
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/12

Date:	September 01, 2010
Subject(s):	Budget deficits \| Debt restructuring \| Developed countries \| Exchange rate adjustments \| Interest rates \| Public debt \| Public finance \| Sovereign debt



Title:	Fiscal Space
Author/Editor:	Jonathan David Ostry ; Atish R. Ghosh ; Jun Il Kim ; Mahvash Saeed Qureshi
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/11

Date:	September 01, 2010
Subject(s):	Fiscal sustainability \| Debt management \| Developed countries \| Public debt

August 2010


Title:	Redesigning the Contours of the Future Financial System
Author/Editor:	Kodres, Laura ; Narain, Aditya
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/10

Date:	August 16, 2010
Subject(s):	Banks \| Bank supervision \| Financial institutions \| Financial instruments \| Fund role \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Multilateral surveillance \| Nonbank financial sector \| Risk management

July 2010


Title:	Monetary Policy and Bank Risk-Taking
Author/Editor:	Giovanni Dell'Ariccia
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/9

Date:	July 27, 2010
Subject(s):	Monetary policy \| United States \| Macroprudential Policy \| Banks \| Profits \| Asset prices \| Interest rates



Title:	Monetary Policy and Bank Risk-Taking
Author/Editor:	Giovanni Dell'Ariccia
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/9

Date:	July 27, 2010
Subject(s):	Monetary policy \| United States \| Macroprudential Policy \| Banks \| Profits \| Asset prices \| Interest rates

May 2010


Title:	The Making of Good Supervision: Learning to Say "No"
Author/Editor:	Elliott, Jennifer ; Narain, Aditya ; Tower, Ian ; Vinãls, José ; Bologna, Pierluigi ; Hsu, Michael ; Fiechter, Jonathan
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/8
Notes:	See Also: Intensity and Effectiveness of SIFI Supervision: Recommendations for enhanced supervision
Date:	May 18, 2010
Subject(s):	Bank supervision \| Banks \| Basel Core Principles \| Credit risk \| Financial sector \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Insurance supervision \| Risk management \| Securities regulations

April 2010


Title:	Trade and the Crisis: Protect or Recover
Author/Editor:	Saito, Mika ; Henn, Christian ; Gregory, Rob ; McDonald, Bradley
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/7

Date:	April 16, 2010
Subject(s):	Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Protectionism \| Trade policy \| Trade restrictions \| Unemployment \| World Trade Organization

February 2010


Title:	Petroleum Product Subsidies: Costly, Inequitable, and On the Rise
Author/Editor:	Piotrowski, John ; Coady, David ; Tyson, Justin ; Ossowski, Rolando ; Gillingham, Robert ; Tareq, Shamsuddin
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/5
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Date:	February 25, 2010
Subject(s):	Subsidies \| Taxes \| Commodity price fluctuations \| Fiscal reforms \| Governance \| Oil exporting countries \| Oil product prices \| Oil subsidies \| Price stabilization



Title:	Capital Inflows
Author/Editor:	Jonathan David Ostry ; Atish R. Ghosh ; Karl Friedrich Habermeier ; Marcos Chamon ; Mahvash Saeed Qureshi ; Dennis B. S. Reinhardt
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/4

Date:	February 19, 2010
Subject(s):	Banking sector \| Capital controls \| Capital inflows \| Exchange rate appreciation \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Reserves accumulation



Title:	Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy
Author/Editor:	Olivier J. Blanchard ; Giovanni Dell'Ariccia ; Paolo Mauro
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/3

Date:	February 12, 2010
Subject(s):	Bank credit \| Bank supervision \| Central bank role \| Financial intermediation \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Inflation targeting \| Liquidity management

January 2010


Title:	Approaches to Corporate Debt Restructuring in the Wake of Financial Crises
Author/Editor:	Thomas Laryea
Series:	Staff Position Note No. 2010/2

Date:	January 26, 2010
Subject(s):	Asset management \| Bank restructuring \| Banking sector \| Bankruptcy \| Corporate sector \| Debt restructuring \| Debt strategy \| External debt \| Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 \| Intervention