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Showing posts with label Books and Papers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books and Papers. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Effect of countercyclical investment on employment

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An interesting paper by Buchheim and Watzinger (2023) published in AEJ: Economic Policy [15(1)] shows that investments in public buildings...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

High cost of geoeconomic fragmentation

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Geoeconomic fragmentation, a policy-driven reversal of global economic integration, may be caused due to trade restrictions, barriers to the...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Development beyond country averages

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McKinsey Global Institute has an i nteresting article that highlights the importance of microregions as opposed to country averages to acco...
Monday, July 18, 2022

How to build support for climate change policies?

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 Abstract from a new NBER working paper : Using new surveys on more than 40,000 respondents in twenty countries that account for 72% of glob...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

IMF's latest view on capital flows: CFM and MPMs can be applied pre-emptively without surge in capital inflows

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The IMF has updated its view on capital flows. Specifically, it now recommends that countries should have the option to pre-emptively curb d...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Impact of fiscal rules on subnational government spending

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Interesting research by Carreri and Martinez on the impact of fiscal rules at the subnational level in Colombia. Briefly, it reduced oversp...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Fiscal decentralization and local public services delivery

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Abstract from a NBER working paper by Bianchi et al (2021) : Fiscal decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services,...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Agriculture productivity shocks and nonagricultural employment in India

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Abstract from Jonathan Colmer's published paper in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 13(4):101-24 To what degree can labor ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Brief highlights from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report

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AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis , the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report submitted by Working Group I is out now. The repor...
Friday, July 30, 2021

Conditional or unconditional convergence

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In their latest NBER working paper on economic convergence, Kremer, Willis and You (2021) argue that there was a trend towards unconditiona...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Entry and exit of informal firms

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In a latest NBER working paper, McCaig and Pavcnik (2021) present several stylized facts about entry and exit of informal firms using a nat...
Friday, May 21, 2021

A Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Abstract from a latest IMF Staff Discussion Note by Ruchir Agarwal and Gita Gopinath: Urgent steps are needed to arrest the rising human to...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Effect of fiscal expansion and adjustment on sustainable development

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Aizenman et al (2021) outline four stylized patterns from large fiscal impulses (expansions and adjustments) in Chile, Poland, South Africa...
Friday, April 16, 2021

COVID-19 related economic scarring

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The IMF’s WEO April 2021 includes a chapter on the possible persistent effects of the pandemic on economic activities (scarring). It notes...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Divergent recovery and policy options

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In the latest edition of World Economic Outlook ( WEO, April 2021 ), the IMF states that without the extraordinary fiscal and monetary polic...