Working Papers


2002


Working Paper 56
Asymmetries in Bank Lending Behaviour. Austria During the 1990s

Sylvia Kaufmann


Working Paper 57
Banking Regulation and Systemic Risk

Martin Summer


Working Paper 58
Credit Channel and Investment Behavior in Austria: A micro-econometric approach

Maria Valderrama


Working Paper 59
Evaluating Density Forecasts with an Application to Stock Market Returns

Gabriela de Raaij, Burkhard Raunig


Working Paper 60
The Empirical Performance of Option Based Densities of Foreign Exchange

Ben R. Craig, Joachim G. Keller


Working Paper 61
Price Dynamics in Central and Eastern European EU Accession Countries

Peter Backé, Jarko Fidrmuc, Thomas Reininger, Franz Schardax


Working Paper 62
Growth, Convergence and EU Membership

Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma, Maria Antoinette Dimitz, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald


Working Paper 63
Wage Formation in Open Economies and the Role of Monetary and Wage-Setting Institutions

Markus Knell


Working Paper 64
The Federal Design of a Central Bank in Monetary Union: The Case of the European System of Central Banks

Sylvester C.W.Eijffinger (comments by José Luis Malo de Molina and by Franz Seitz)


Working Paper 65
Dollarization and Economic Performance: What Do We Really Know?

Sebastian Edwards, I. Igal Magendzo
(comments by Luis Adalberto Aquino Cardon and by Hans Genberg)


Working Paper 66
Growth, Integration and Macroeconomic Policy Design: Some Lessons for Latin America

David Begg (comment by Peter Bofinger)


Working Paper 67
An Evalution of Monetary Regime Options for Latin America

Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, Paolo Mauro (comment by Sven Arndt)


Working Paper 68
Monetary Union: European Lessons, Latin American Prospects

Eduard Hochreiter, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Georg Winckler
(comments by Lars Jonung and George Tavlas)


Working Paper 69
Reflections on the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criteria in the light of EMU

Michael J.Artis (comment by David Archer)


Working Paper 70
Fiscaland Monetary Policy Coordination in EMU

Jürgen von Hagen, Susanne Mundschenk (comments by Thorsten Polleit, Gernot Doppelhofer and Roland Vaubel)


Working Paper 71
EMU and Accession Countries: Fuzzy Cluster Analysis of Membership

Dirnitri Boreiko (comment by Ryszard Kokoszczynski)


Working Paper 72
Monetary Integration in the Southern Cone: Mercosuris not like the EU?

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros (comments by Luís de Campos e Cunha, Nuno Alves and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati)


Working Paper 73
Forecasting Austrian HICP and its Components using VAR and ARIMA Models

Friedrich Fritzer, Gabriel Moser and Johann Scharler


Working Paper 74
The Great Exchange Rate Debate after Argentina

Sebastian Edwards


Working Paper 75
Central European EU Accession and Latin American Integration:
Mutual Lessons in Macro-Economic Policy Design

George Kopits (comments by Zsolt Darvas and Gerhard Illing)


Working Paper 76
The Potential Consequences of Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes:
A Study of Three Candidate Regions

Eduard Hochreiter, Anton Korinek, Pierre L. Siklos
(comments by Jeannine Baillu and Thorvaldur Gylfason)


Working Paper 77
Why did Central Banks Intervenein the EMS? The Post 1993 Experience

Peter Brandner, Harald Grech


Working Paper 78
Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Alfred Stiglbauer, Florian Stahl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller


Working Paper 79
Risk Assessment for Banking Systems

Helmut Elsinger, Alfred Lehar, Martin Summer


Working Paper 80
Does Central Bank Intervention Influence the Probability of a Speculative Attack?
Evidence from the EMS

Helmut Stix