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Journal Articles

  • "Short-Run Dynamics of Prices and the Balance of Payments, American Economic Review" (June 1977), pp. 419-28.
  • "The Monetary Approach to Devaluation: A Graphical Presentation", Weltwirthschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 2 (1977). pp. 348-52.
  • "Black-Market Exchange-Rate Expectations and the Domestic Demand for Money: Some Empirical Results", Journal of Monetary Economics (October 1978), pp. 767-73.
  • "Income Per Capita and the Structure of Industrial Exports: An Empirical Study", The Review of Economics and Statistics (November 1978), pp. 539-44.
  • "Non-Traded Goods and the Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments: A Graphical Note", Quarterly Review of Economics and Business (Spring 1978), pp. 106-10.
  • "Money and the Nominal Rate of Interest under Rapid Inflation: An Empirical Test", Journal of Political Economy (June 1978), pp. 529-34.
  • "On the Output-Inflation Trade-off in an Open Economy: A Short-Run Monetary Approach", (with R.B. Fernandez), The Manchester School, (June 1978), pp. 123-38.
  • "Devaluation, Inflation and the Balance of Payments: A Short-Run Monetary Approach", The Economic Record (March 1979), pp. 33-40.
  • "On Causality and the Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments: The European Experience", European Economic Review (July 1979), pp. 289-96.
  • "Inflation Variability in Latin America: A Note on the Time-Series Evidence", Economic Letters, 2 (1979), pp. 337-41.
  • "On the Specification of the Fisher Equation under Inflation Uncertainty", (with B. Eden), Economic Letters, 3 (1979), pp. 249-55.
  • "The Variability of the Rate of Inflation and the Demand for Money", International Economic Review (June 1979), pp. 545-49.
  • "Effects of Exogenous Changes in Foreign-Exchange Rates and Income Growth Rates on the Geographical Pattern of Exports: the Case of Israel", (with N. Halevi), Economic Letters, 4 (1979), pp. 369-72.
  • "Components of Effective Devaluation and the Domestic Rate of Inflation: The Case of Israel", (with N. Halevi), Journal of Development Economics (March 1980), pp. 117-22.
  • "The Effects of Unanticipated Money Growth on Prices, Output, and its Composition in a Fixed Exchange-Rate Open Economy", (with R.B. Fernandez), The Canadian Journal of Economics (February 1980), pp. 82-95.
  • "On the Specification of the Demand for Money Function under Rapid Inflation", (with B. Eden), The Canadian Journal of Economics (February 1980), pp. 149-54.
  • "On the Effects of Relative-Price Variability on Output and Unemployment: some Empirical Evidence", (with L. Leiderman), The Review of Economics and Statistics (November 1980), pp. 551-61.
  • "Foreign-Exchange Market Regularities in a Developing Economy", (with M.S. Khan), Economic Letters, 6 (1980), pp. 279-86.
  • "A Monetary Approach to the Crawling-Peg System: Theory and Evidence", (with L. Leiderman), Journal of Political Economy (February 1981), pp. 132-51.
  • "Strike Activity and Wage Determination in an Inflationary Economy: a Quantitative Study of the Chilean Experience", Industrial and Labor Relations Review (April 1981), pp. 356-641.
  • "The Dispersion of Relative Commodity Prices under Very Rapid Inflation", Journal of Development Economics (November 1981), pp. 347-56.
  • "A Note on the International Transmission of Inflation: The Impact of U.S. Inflation on Mexico", Economic Letters, 8 (1981), pp. 379-84.
  • "The Preannouncement of Exchange Rate Changes as a Stabilization Instrument", (with D.J. Mathieson), IMF Staff Papers (December 1981), pp. 760-92.
  • "A Proposition on Short-Run Departures from the Law of One Price: Unanticipated Inflation, Relative- Price Dispersion, and Commodity Arbitrage", (with A.L. Hillman), European Economic Review (February 1982), pp. 51-60.
  • "Inflation, Interest Rate Policy, and Currency Substitution in Open Economies: A Discussion of Some Major Issues" (with V. Tanzi), World Development, Special Issue (September 1982), pp. 781-89.
  • "Inflation and Relative Price Variability in the Open Economy", (with L. Leiderman), European Economic Review (April 1982), pp. 387-402
  • "Interest-Rate Differentials and Exchange Risk: Recent Argentine Experience", IMF Staff Papers (June 1982), pp. 270-79.
  • "On the Dynamic Non-Equivalence of Tariffs and Quotas in the Monetary Model of the Balance of Payments", (with A.L. Hillman), Journal of International Economic (August 1982), pp. 163-69.
  • "Relative Price Variability and Output-Inflation Trade-offs in an Open Economy", (with L. Leiderman), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (November 1982), pp. 639-50.
  • "The Foreign Exchange Market in a Highly Open Developing Economy: The Case of Singapore", (with M.S. Khan), Journal of Development Economics (February/April 1983), pp. 237-49.
  • "Liberalization and Stabilization Policies in the Southern Cone Countries: an Introduction", Journal of Inter-American Studies and Word Affairs (November 1983), pp. 431-44.
  • "On the Anatomy of Inflation: the Variability of Relative Commodity Prices in Argentina", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (November 1983), pp. 469-82.
  • "Government Policy and Private Investment in Developing Countries", (with M. S. Khan), IMF Staff Papers (June 1984), pp. 379-403.
  • "On the Dynamic Non-Equivalence of Tariffs and Quotas in the Monetary Model of the Balance of Payments: Reply", (with A.L. Hillman), Journal of International Economics (May 1985), pp. 381-82.
  • "The Effects of Domestic and External Factors in the Determination of the Real Interest Rate: The Case of Uruguay", (with J. Gil-Diaz), Economic Development and Cultural Change (April 1986), pp. 589-606.
  • "The Term Structure of Interest Rates During a Financial Reform: Argentina, 1977-81", (with L. Leiderman), Journal of Development Economics (April 1987), pp. 285-299.
  • "Fighting Hyperinflation: Stabilization Strategies in Argentina and Israel, 1985-86", (with N. Liviatan), IMF Staff Papers (September 1987), pp. 409-438.
  • "Inflation and the Measurement of Fiscal Deficits", (with V. Tanzi and M.O. Teijeiro), IMF Staff Papers (December 1987), pp. 711-738.
  • "Modelling and Testing Ricardian Equivalence: A. Survey", (with L. Leiderman) IMF Staff Papers (March 1988), pp. 1-35.
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  • "High Inflation, Heterodox Stabilization, and Fiscal Policy", (with A. Cheasty), World Development, vol. 16, Nº 8 (August 1988), pp. 867-81.
  • "Latin American Economic Integration: The Experience and the Prospects", Journal of International Economic Integration (Autumn 1988), pp. 10-39.
  • "On the Determination of Nominal Wage Dispersion", Economic Letters, 32 (1990), pp. 175-80.
  • "The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Income Distribution: An Empirical Study", (with Isabel Guerrero), The Review of Economics and Statistics (August 1990), pp. 414-423.
  • "The Evolving Role of Tax Policy in China", (with G. Szapary) Journal of Comparative Economics (September 1990), pp. 452-472.
  • "The "Gulliver Effect" and the "Optimal Divergence" Approach to Trade Policies: The Case of Nepal", (with G. Szapary), World Development (February/March 1991), pp. 255-262.
  • "Analytical and Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Fiscal Deficits", (with Adrienne Cheasty), Journal of Economic Literature, (December 1991). Pp. 1644-1678.
  • "Hungary: The Initial Stages in the Fiscal Reform of a Socialist Economy in Transition", (with Silvia Sagari), Applied Financial Economics (March 1992), pp. 33-42.
  • "Forced Savings and Repressed Inflation in the Soviet Union, 1986-90: Some Empirical Results", (with C. Cottarelli), IMF Staff Papers (June 1992), pp. 256-286.
  • "Early Contributions of Staff Papers to International Economics", (with P. R. Masson and M.S. Khan), IMF Staff Papers (December 1995), pp. 707-733.
  • "Deja-vu All Over Again?: The Mexican Crisis and the Stabilization of Uruguay in the 1970s". (with G. del Castillo), World Development, (March 1998), pp. 449-464.
  • "Financial Crisis in Russia: A Comment" Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, (June 1998), pp. 329-331.
  • "The Economics of Currency Crises: Models, Indicators, and Policy Responses", Zagreb Journal of Economics, Vol. 2, Nº 2, 1998, pp. 39-54.
  • "Central Banking and Price Stability: Is One Objective Enough", Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 1, Nº 1, (November 1998), pp. 105-122.
  • "Central Bank Vulnerability and the Credibility of Commitments: A Value-at-Risk Approach to Currency Crises", (with L. Schumacher), Journal of Risk, Vol. 2, Nº 1, (November 1999).
  • "Central Bank Use of Derivatives and Other Contingent Liabilities", (with Liliana Schumacher), Central Banking, (February 2000), pp. 76-82.
  • "Exogenous Shocks, Deposit Runs and Bank Soundness: A Macroeconomic Framework", (with E. V. Feldman and A. Feltenstein), Journal of International Money and Finance, (February 2002), pp. 33-52.
  • "Inflation Targeting in the Context of IMF-Supported Adjustment Programs", (with A. Leone et. alt.), IMF Staff Papers (October 2002), pp. 313-338
  • "Economic Growth and the Stability and Efficiency of the Financial Sector", Journal of Banking and Finance, (November 2006), pp. 3429-3432.
  • Comments on O. Issing: "Europe´s hard fix: the Euro area", International Economics and Economic Policy, (December 2006), Volume 3, Nos. 3-4.