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Move people or move the plant? : Business travel and relocation choices of firms
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO007.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Strategies to access and manage donations for humanitarian operations
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO006.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Corporate governance issues and performance of initial public offerings
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO005.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Understanding the effects of communication and engagement in a social marketing intervention on children’s eating behavior : design, measurement and evaluation
Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017COM014.
Institution partenaire
English / 12/02/2019
Volatility spillovers and systemic risk across economies: evidence from a global semi-structural model
The paper presents some evidence on the overwhelming relevance of systemic risk and the lesser importance of US interest rates in the global transmission of shocks. This evidence suggests that the literature could benefi t from incorporating global con dence variables into global frameworks in the study of the global transmission of shocks. As framework, we used a global semi-…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 03/12/2018
Maduro Bonds
For multiple decades, activists have sought to institute an international legal regime that limits the ability of despotic governments to borrow money and then shift those obligations onto more democratic successor governments. Our goal in this article is to raise the possibility of an alternate legal path to raising the costs of borrowing for despotic regimes. All countries have…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 28/09/2018
Industrial or Traditional Bamboo Construction? Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Bamboo-Based Buildings
The past five decades have witnessed an unprecedented growth in population. This has led to an ever-growing housing demand. It has been proposed that the use of bio-based materials, and specifically bamboo, can help alleviate the housing demand in a sustainable manner. The present paper aims to assess the environmental impact caused by using four different construction materials (…
Institution partenaire
English / 30/08/2018
Bamboo reinforced concrete – a critical review
The use of small diameter whole-culm (bars) and/or split bamboo (a.k.a. splints or round strips) has often been proposed as an alternative to relatively expensive reinforcing steel in reinforced concrete. The motivation for such replacement is typically cost—bamboo is readily available in many tropical and sub-tropical locations, whereas steel reinforcement is relatively more…
Institution partenaire
English / 16/07/2018
Eurobonds past and present: a comparative review on debt mutualization in Europe
This paper reviews the economic and historical literature on debt mutualization in Europe with reference to pre-1914 guaranteed bonds and current Eurobonds debate. We emphasize that, notwithstanding the differences in scale and nature, debt mutualization solutions similar to Eurobonds were tried before, and the closest historical examples to the present debate are the pre-1914…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 09/07/2018
Can countries rely on foreign saving for investment and economic development ?
Contrary to widespread presumption, a surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of their investment for extended periods using foreign finance. While many of these episodes are in countries where official finance is important, we also identify episodes where a substantial fraction of domestic investment is financed by private capital…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/06/2018
Aggregate uncertainty and sectoral productivity growth: the role of credit constraints
We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty -measured by stock market volatility- reduces productivity growth more in industries that depend heavily on external finance. The mechanism at play is that during periods of high uncertainty, firms that are credit constrained switch the composition of investment by reducing productivity-enhancing investment- such as on ICT capital-…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/06/2018
The bank lending channel: a time-varying approach
Using a cross-country panel of 925 banks from 19 advanced economies, for the period 1981-2016, I examine how the bank lending channel of monetary policy has evolved over time. I find that the sensitivity of lending to bank balance sheet liquidity declines over time, with nearly all the reduction occurring between the early 1990s and the early 2000s. Contrary to normal times, during…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 11/06/2018
Foreign currency bank funding and global factors
The literature on drivers of capital flows stresses the prominent role of global financial factors. Recent empirical work, however, highlights how this role varies across countries and time, and this heterogeneity is not well understood. We revisit this question by focusing on financial intermediaries' funding flows in different currencies. A portfolio model shows that the sign and…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 29/05/2018
Does public debt crowd out corporate investment?: international evidence
Using data for advanced and emerging economies, we show that there is a negative correlation between public debt and corporate investment. Industry-level regressions show that high levels of government debt are particularly damaging for industries that need more external financial resources. Firm-level regressions show that government debt increases the sensitivity of corporate…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 24/05/2018
Financing for development: editor's introduction
In this double issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy we publish a set of papers concerned with the mobilization of domestic and foreign capital in support of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals that were launched in September 2015. The papers were originally presented at a conference on 'Financing for Development' organized by the International Monetary Fund and…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 04/05/2018
Acquirers and financial constraints: theory and evidence from emerging markets
How do financial frictions shape the set of acquirers, how much they acquire, and how long they keep ownership? To address these questions, we develop a tractable model of M&As; whereby acquirers and targets emerge endogenously due to differences in liquidity. Financial crises lead to selection effects among acquirers that result in larger acquired stakes and more persistent…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 16/04/2018
Education, gender, religion, politics: what priorities for cultural integration policies in Switzerland?
This paper explores cultural integration paths of eight migrant groups in Switzerland. It specifically analyzes the evolution of objective behaviors and subjective attitudes of migrants from the first to the second generation. In order to deepen the analysis, the cultural integration of migrants is further examined from different perspectives: across cohorts (older vs. younger…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 16/04/2018
Down with diarrhea: using fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design to link communal water supply with health
This paper contributes to the existing literature by demonstrating that the provision of communal water supply can be effective in improving child health if the targeted population shows adequate hygiene awareness and behavior. Until now, the fast growing body of literature on water development interventions could not establish a significant effect of communal water supply on health…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 16/04/2018
Fiscal multipliers for Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of this paper is to determine the size of fiscal multipliers (spending and tax multipliers) using a structural vector autoregressive model for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). This is the first attempt of its kind for the BiH economy. The results show that the spending multiplier is higher than the tax multiplier, as expected. The tax multiplier has a negative effect on output…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 13/04/2018
Fiscal shocks and international production networks: an empirical investigation
Recently, a large literature has been developed from the production network models, to be applied in a diversity of fields as financial contagion, trade comovements or the aggregation of micro shocks. Thus, one theoretical implication introduced by Acemoglu et al. (2015), argue that demand-side shocks (i.e. government spending) spread through the production networks following…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 13/04/2018
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