This document lists Valerie Mercer-Blackman's publications and presentations. It shows that she has authored or co-authored over 30 publications, including papers, reports, book chapters, and policy briefs for organizations like the Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, IMF, and others. The publications cover topics related to economic growth, fiscal policy, taxation, investment, and challenges facing developing countries. She has also presented her research at numerous international conferences.

1. Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman
PUBLICATIONS
“Bangladesh Country Diagnostic Study: Consolidating Export-Led Growth, Transforming into a Thriving Middle-Income
Economy”, main author with contributions from Sakiko Tanaka, Ahsan Mansur, Zaidi Sattar, Joseph Mariasingham and
Concepcion Latoja. forthcoming, Asian Development Bank, June 2016
“Transitioning the Tax System to Take Advantage of the Natural Gas-Rich Economy in Trinidad and Tobago” IDB Working
Paper No. IDB-WP-661, Inter-American Development Bank. December 2015.
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“Understanding Economic Growth in the Caribbean Region: A Conceptual and Methodological Study”
Joint with J. Rodrigo Fuentes & Karl Alexander Melgarejo, Inter-American Development Bank June 2015
https://ideas.repec.org/d/iadbbus.html IDB-WP-595;
https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/6962
“Going for Growth: Pilot Benchmarking in the Caribbean” Joint with Karl Alexander Melgarejo and Mariana Salazni,
Inter-American Development Bank Policy brief, IDB-PB-243, July 2015
https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/7012
“To Cut or Not To Cut: Does the Caribbean Follow the Advice of Multilaterals?” joint with Dave Seerattan, CCMF, Policy
Brief, Inter-American Development Bank. IDB-PB-214
http://www19.iadb.org/intal/intalcdi/PE/2014/13465.pdf
“Spillovers of Global Shocks over Caribbean Countries, So Large there is Little Room to Manouver. An Impulse-Response
Analysis”, joint with Karl Melgarejo, IDB-Policy Brief No. IDB-PB-206, Washington DC, November 2013
“Policy Benchmarking for Productivity and Growth: Review and Proposed Framework for the Caribbean”, joint with
Michael D'Acosta and Karl Melgarejo, CBB Working Paper No. WP/13/5, Central Bank of Barbados Research and Economic
Analysis Department, August 2013.
“Vulnerability, Debt and Growth in the Caribbean. A Fan Chart Approach”, Leandro Andrian. Valerie Mercer-Blackman.
Andrea Presbitero and Alessandro Rebucci. IDB Technical Note No IDB-TN-77, Inter-American Development Bank.
“The Treatment of Fiscal Revenues from Copper in Chile (‘El Manejo de los Ingresos Fiscales del Cobre en Chile’), joint with
Eduardo Borensztein, Bernardita Piedrabuena, Rolando Ossoski, and Sebastian Miller, forthcoming IDB Policy Brief No, 193,
2013.
“What Determines Investment in the Oil Sector?” (joint with Lyudmyla Hvozdyk), IADB Working Paper Number
IDB-WP-209, Inter-American Development Bank, August 2010.
Appendix on Developments in Oil and Commodities prices, various issues of the IMF World Economic Outlook since Fall
2006. Also wrote various boxes (on hedging in the oil market oil refining, price benchmarks, etc). More salient works
includes:
Chapter 3, World Economic Outlook, “Is Inflation Back? Commodity Prices and Inflation’ Joint with Thomas Helbling, Irina
Tytell et.al., International Monetary Fund, October 2008.
Box 1.5 World Economic Outlook: “Why hasn’t Oil Supply Responded to Higher Prices?‟ International Monetary Fund, April
2008
Box 1.6, World Economic Outlook: Globalization and Inequality‟, “Making the Most of Biofuels‟, International Monetary
Fund, October 2007
Box 1.4 World Economic Outlook, Fall 2006: “Financial Systems and Economic Cycles”, with a focus on “Investment by
National and International Oil Companies” International Monetary Fund, October 2006

2. “Riding a Wave‟, lead article in „Finance and Development‟ Vol 45 Number 1, March 2008 (joint with Thomas Helbling and
Kevin Cheng)
“The Impact of Research and Development Tax Incentives on Colombia’s Manufacturing Sector: What Difference do they
Make?‟, IMF Working Paper 08/178, July 2008.
Various articles on the „IMF Survey‟ on oil and food prices (joint with Thomas Helbling and Kevin Cheng).
World Bank Report No. 32797-PY Paraguay Public Expenditure Review, Fiscal Analysis
“Analisis del Sistema Tributario Colombiano y su Impacto Sobre la Competitividad” (Analysis of Colombia’s Tax System and
its Impact on Competitiveness), joint with Mauricio Cardenas, Cuadernos de Fedesarrollo No. 19, June 2006.
“The Art of Tax Policies” (joint with Mauricio Cardenas and Eduardo Lora), in “The Politics of Policies, Economic and Social
Progress in Latin America”, 2006 Report, published by Inter-American Development Bank and David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies Harvard University
(joint with Jeffrey Franks, Randa Sab and Roberto Benelli, 2005) „Paraguay: Corruption, Reform and the Financial System‟
Selected Issues Series, International Monetary Fund, September. I was the main contributor to the first chapter: “Has
Corruption in Paraguay Contributed to Slow Economic Growth?‟
“How do Countries in Central America Choose their Exchange Rates?” (joint with R. Rennhack and E. Offerdal), in ”The
Macroeconomy of Central America“, R. Rennhack and E. Offerdal, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2004.
”Compliance with IMF Program Indicators and Growth in Transition Economies” (joint with Anna Unigovskaya). Emerging
Markets Finance and Trade, Vol 40 No.3, May 2004.
Joint with O.Havrylyshyn, M Castello-Branco, R. van Rooden and T. Wolf, „Growth Experience in Transition Countries,
90-98‟, IMF Occasional paper No. 184, April 2000.
“On Machinery and Equipment Investment and Economic Growth: What Countries Benefit?” (joint with Alan Heston),
Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP) Working Paper No. 96-5.
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLICATIONS AND FORTHCOMING WORK
“Does Bangladesh Need to Switch Gears? The Relationship between Export Concentration and Economic Agglomeration”,
joint with Joseph Mariasingham (ADB) and Zaidi Sattar (Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh). Forthcoming, ADB
working paper.
“Women in the Workplace: an Unmet Potential in Asia and the Pacific”, Asian Development Bank, ADB special publication
(joint with Sakiko Tanaka), http://www.adb.org/publications/women-workforce-unmet-potential-asia-and-pacific
“Enabling Women, Energizing Asia: Asian Development Outlook Update 2015”. Special Chapter, Asian Development Bank,
September 2015, http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/174108/ado-2015-update.pdf
Contributor de Caribbean DevTrends Blog:
blogs.iadb.org/caribbean-dev-trends/2014/01/23/known-unknowns-or-unknown-unknowns/
Director and Contributor to Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin, various editions
http://www.iadb.org/en/publications/publication-detail,7101.html?id=72616
UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH PAPERS
“Assessing Recent Debt Sustainability Issues in The Bahamas, Barbados, ”, mimeo, Caribbean Department, Inter-American
Development Bank.

3. “Panama: Bridging the Duality Gap”, editor of various papers on the Panamanian economy (in Spanish), joint with Ernesto
Stein, Inter-American Development Bank.
“An Evaluation of the Impact of Fiscal Incentives for Science, Technology and Innovation in Colombia”, Report to
Colciencias from Fedesarrollo in collaboration with Lewin y Wills, November 2005. Report available upon request from
Fedesarrollo or Colciencias.
“Taxation, incentives, and competitiveness in Colombia: problems, strategy, recommendations” (joint with Joel Bergsman
and Orlando Gracia), backround report included in Plan de Accion: Competitividad para la Invesion en Colombia, Colombia
Productiva and USAID, Bogota, October 2005.
“Chapter I: Aggregate Fiscal Analysis”, in Paraguay: Public Expenditure Review, 2006, the World Bank
A Survey of the Literature of Growth in Transition Economies, (joint with Oleh Havrylyshyn), mimeo,
European II Department, IMF.
“Investment and Uncertainty in Honduras”, in “Honduras: Selected Issues”, International Monetary Fund, December 2001.
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS (since October 2010)
ERCD Research workshop (March 2015): “Does Bangladesh Need to Switch Gears? The Relationship between Export
Concentration and Economic Agglomeration”. Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines.
Bangladesh Country Diagnostics: Jobs and Growth. Moderator and speaker, January 2015 (inception) and August 2015
(midterm review). The Westin Hotel, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Women’s Employment, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Regional Seminar Bangkok, Thailand.”Macroeconomic
Trends in Female Labor Force Participation in Asia”, May 20, 2015.
Caribbean Center for Money and Finance 45th
Annual Conference, Kingston, Jamaica: “Vulnerability, Debt and Growth
in the Caribbean”, October 2013.
33rd
Annual Seminar, Central Bank of Barbados, Bridgetown Barbados: “Benchmarking for Growth” (July 2013).
5th
Biennal Business and Finance Conference, University of West Indies St Augustine, Trinidad: “A Conceptual Framework
for Growth in the Caribbean” (May 2013).
IMF High-Level Conference, Nassau The Bahamas: Tax Policy Reforms — Regional Efforts and Priorities (September
2013).
University of West Indies Conference on The Economy 2012, Presentation on transitioning to a post-Hydrocarbon Tax
Regime in Trinidad (October 2012).
Conference on Revenue Management in Hydrocarbon Economies (June 2012), presented on “Tax Regimes in
Hydrocarbon-Rich Countries: How does Trinidad Compare?”
Seventh Annual Meeting Group of Latin America and the Caribbean Debt Management Specialists, presentation on
Caribbean Economic Outlook, Kingston Jamaica (October 2011)
OFID Emerging Market Workshop, Vienna, Austria: Presented “On the Role of Multilaterals in Enhancing Private Sector
Investment.” (March 2011)
Asia Oil and Gas Investment, Singapore, Presented a paper on Macroeconomic Challenges to Oil Investment and
participated in a panel on the role of multilaterals (October 2011).