01726cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF015776 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 15.00 USD 9781589067226 1020-7635 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 1. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (220 pages) IMF Staff 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 issue, a team of economists look at approaches to modeling the use of IMF resources in order to gauge whether the recent decline in credit outstanding is a temporary or permanent phenomenon. Era Dabla-Norris and Gabriela Inchauste examine what drives the growth of firms, with a focus on informality and regulations. Evan Tanner and Issouf Samake use a vector autoregression approach to examine the probabilistic sustainability of public debt in Brazil. Mexico, and Turkey. And Rachel Glennerster and Yongseok Shin ask whether transparency pays?that is, does the frequency and accuracy of macroeconomic information released to the public lead to lower borrowing costs in sovereign debt markets? Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Papers; IMF Staff Papers ; No. 2008/003 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/024/2008/003/024.2008.issue-003-en.xml IMF e-Library