Economics and Finance Research Guide (IMF): Working Papers

IMF Working Papers are designed to make research by individual IMF staff members available to a wide academic audience. These papers are generally longer and more technical than Staff Position Notes (Series that replaced Policy Discussion Papers at the end of 2008).

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of works in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. Titles are submitted from units around the World Bank for review and inclusion in this series, which is managed by the Development Economics Research Support unit.

Research by Centre for Economic Policy Research Fellows and Affiliates, a distributed network of the top 1,000 economists conducting research on issues affecting the European economy, are published in the CEPR Discussion Paper series.

Searchable online archive of downloadable economics working papers by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Working Papers convey the preliminary results of PIIE's research and are published as part of the Institute’s review process. They typically employ extensive and sophisticated economic models and analysis applied to a broad range of issues. The Institute welcomes feedback from readers communicated to the Institute or the authors.

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