01781cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF002408 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451851748 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Cross-Country and Cross-Sector Analysis of Transparency of Monetary and Financial Policies. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003. 1 online resource (45 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students In this paper we construct indices of transparency of monetary and financial policies, based on self-evaluations carried out by 135 IMF member countries in 1999, and use them to identify transparency patterns across different policies and country groups. We find that across all countries, transparency is highest in the formulation and conduct of monetary policy and lowest in insurance supervision and deposit-insurance oversight. Across country groups having similar political/economic characteristics, the average degree of transparency is highest in advanced countries and lowest in developing ones for both monetary policy and those financial policies for which there are differences between country group means. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/094 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2003/094/001.2003.issue-094-en.xml IMF e-Library