Do highly indebted countries suffer from a debt overhang? Can debt relief foster their growth rates? To answer these important questions, this article looks at how the debt-growth relation varies with indebtedness levels, as well as with the quality of policies and institutions, in a panel of...

This paper introduces a new database of financial reforms covering 91 economies over 1973-2005. It describes the content of the database, the information sources utilized, and the coding rules used to create an index of financial reform. It also compares the database with other measures of...

This paper presents the bibliography cover books, pamphlets, reports, and periodical articles that describe the functions, organization, and activities of the IMF. Publications on the various aspects of international economics are included only when they contain material relating specifically to...

Nach 1945 erlebte die deutsche Volkswirtschaftslehre eine tief greifende Transformation: Die ältere, stark historisch und soziologisch orientierte deutsche Nationalökonomie wurde nach dem Vorbild der Wirtschaftswissenschaft, wie sie in England und den USA gelehrt wurde, umgestaltet....