of public debt management theories. It discusses the experience of Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and … Sweden and relates it to the theoretical arguments in favor or against the Issuance of foreign currency debt …

, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Together, these agreements provide a total of …-income countries (LICs). The new agreements and augmentations of existing agreements that have been finalized are from Belgium, Brazil …

, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The paper discusses that during 2001–04, the performance of the external sector differed markedly …This cross-country paper explains differences in external sector performance among four large euro area countries—France …

Union is a major achievement but also a difficult process in the four countries (France, Germany, Italy, and Spain) …

characterizing Spain in the period 1979-86. The paper argues, in accordance with the literature and the cross-country evidence, that … the centralization of bargaining yielded positive macroeconomic effects in Spain, and thus that the shift toward a more …

The Selected Issues paper of the Netherlands provides an overview of the Dutch pension system. It examines the … past macroeconomic performance of the Netherlands, addresses the issues of wage dispersion and differentiation, and … discusses future prospects and challenges for the bargaining model. It also estimates the potential growth in the Netherlands …

This Selected Issues paper for the Netherlands highlights that Dutch cost competitiveness deteriorated significantly in …