Index du vol. 51, 2005

ConnCensus Vol. 51 No. 16

ConnCensus Vol. 51 No. 3

IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 51, No. 2

Well over a trillion dollars worth of state-owned firms have been privatized since 1980. The traditional argument is that governments choose to privatize in response to fiscal pressures. In this study, the authors examine the impact of IFI conditionality on privatization and find that IMF conditionality, in particular, has an important indirect economic benefit. Investors are willing to pay mor...

IMF Staff Papers vol. 51, no. 3

The “conservative central banker” has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare-reducing if the trade union has an exogenous preference against inflation. We reframe this discussion in a standard trade union model. We sh...

Chronica Horticulturae Vol. 51 number 2

Medicinal and Aromatic Plants • Lilium • Fire Blight • Tomato Diseases • Grapevine Breeding and Genetics • Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture • What Do We Mean by Quality? Food Fights • Intellectual Property: Defining Horticultural Assets and Implications for Horticultural Research and Development • Southern African Society for Horticultural Sciences • Carrot: History and Iconography • The Biolo...