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Career dynamics and gender gaps among employees in the microfinance sector
While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little micro-level evidence on gender differences among MFI employees and MFIs' relation to economic development. We use a unique panel dataset of employees from Latin America's largest MFI to show that gender gaps favouring men for promotion exist primarily in…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 18/08/2017
Conditional FAVAR and scenario analysis for a large data: case of Tunisia
The aim of this paper is to compute the conditional forecasts of a set of variables of interest on future paths of some variables in dynamic systems. We build a large dynamic factor models for a quarterly data set of 30 macroeconomic and financial indicators. Results of forecasting suggest that conditional FAVAR models which incorporate more economic information outperform the…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 18/08/2017
Text-as-data analysis of preferential trade agreements: mapping the PTA landscape
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) form an intricate web that connects countries across the globe. In this article, we introduce a PTA text corpus and research tools for its finegrained, automated analysis. Recent computational advances allow for efficient and effective content analysis by treating text as data. We digitize PTA texts and use textual similarity tools to assess PTA…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 14/08/2017
Factor models for non-stationary series: estimates of monthly U.S. GDP
This paper presents a novel dynamic factor model for non-stationary data. We begin by constructing a simple dynamic stochastic general equi- librium growth model and show that we can represent and estimate the model using a simple linear-Gaussian (Kalman) filter. Crucially, consistent estimation does not require differencing the data despite it being cointe- grated of order 1. We…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/07/2017
Scotland and Northern Ireland caught between Brexit, international and EU law: why a custom barrier within the British Isles might be unavoidable
The aim of the paper is to foresee the constitutional and international status of Scotland and Northern Ireland following the triggering of the art. 50 Treaty of the European Union's (TEU) mechanism by the British Government, with a special focus on the possible termination of the free movement of goods within the British Isles.
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/06/2017
Domestic value chains as stepping stones to global value chain integration
We analyze the role of Domestic Value Chains (DVCs) for Global Value Chain (GVC) integration. In the presence of industry specific fixed costs of fragmenting production and of switching across input suppliers, DVCs can either be stepping stones or stumbling blocks for GVCs. Focusing on backward linkages, that is the sourcing of intermediates, we provide robust empirical evidence in…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/06/2017
Free-riding on enforcement in the WTO
Countries can challenge potential trade violations using the WTO's dispute settlement system, yet many policies that appear to violate WTO rules remain unchallenged, even when they have a significant economic impact. Why is this? We argue that the likelihood that a country challenges a protectionist policy is linked to how concentrated or diffuse the policy is. When a policy is…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 26/06/2017
Non-linearities in the relationship between finance and growth
This paper reviews the empirical literature on the links between finance and growth with a special focus on the empirical literature that has shown that the marginal contribution of financial depth to economic growth becomes negative in countries with large financial sectors (the "too much finance result"). It then assesses the empirical and theoretical validity of recent…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 08/06/2017
The determinants of excess liquidity in the banking sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of this research is to identify the determinants of excess liquidity defined as excess reserves in the banking sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The empirical analysis is carried out through the use of the dynamic panel analysis based on the generalized method of moments (GMM) methodology on a dataset of 19 commercial banks operating in B&H in the period from…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 08/06/2017
Micro, macro, and strategic forces in international trade invoicing
The use of different currencies in the invoicing of international trade transactions plays a major role in the international transmission of economic fluctuations. Existing studies argue that an exporter's invoicing choice reflects structural aspects of her industry, such as market share and the price-sensitivity of demand, the hedging of marginal costs, due for instance to the…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 30/05/2017
The banking sector and the Swiss financial account during the financial and European debt crises
The US financial crisis and the later eurozone crisis have substantially impacted capital flows into and out of financial centers like Switzerland. We focus on the pattern of capital flows involving the Swiss banking industry. We first rely on balance-of-payment statistics and show that net banking inflows rose during the acute phases of the crises, albeit with a contrasting pattern…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 29/05/2017
The effect of corporate taxes on investment: evidence from the Colombian firms
The paper assesses the role of taxes on investment in Colombian firms. The analysis is carried out at the firm level for the period 2003-2014. During this period, the national government set five different tax reforms, including changes in the statutory tax rates, tax credits and incentives for corporate investment. The effect of corporate taxation on investment is estimated by first…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 29/05/2017
Follow-the-leader?: measuring the internationalisation of law
Expressive law is said to induce compliance with stated principles without a price on non-compliance. We empirically assess this proposition, by attempting to dis-entangle the impacts of a legal change (a 5p charge on use of plastic bags), on individual choices. We do so by measuring both behaviours and attitudes across the first two months of the legal change, and by comparing the…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/03/2017
Weather and income : effect on household saving and well-being in South Africa
In countries where rain-fed agriculture constitutes a significant portion of household livelihood, increased weather variability represents a source of vulnerability to stable consumption, food security and household well-being. Weather induced income changes affect household consumption and saving decisions. We evaluate saving and consumption responses to weather variation in South…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/03/2017
The centralization-decentralization issue
The make-up of the EU institutions, and their evolution, should explicitly be based on widely accepted federalism principles. This paper applies federalism principles to a few crucial questions, mainly fiscal policy, fiscal discipline and structural reforms, using where possible lessons from existing federations. After introducing the topic, Section 2 briefly reviews the key message…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 24/02/2017
A world without the WTO: what's at stake?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/02/2017
The role of education in preventing and combating youth unemployment
Youth unemployment and disengagement from both education and work are negatively associated with levels of completed education and skill proficiency. Recent research highlights the importance of focusing on the quality of education and improving actual learning outcomes for all. Empirical findings show the central importance of preventive strategies targeted towards disadvantaged…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/02/2017
Global value chains in low and middle income countries
Global Value Chains (GVCs) can provide new means for developing economies to industrialise. To fully seize these opportunities, it is necessary to comprehensively measure both the intensity and type of countries' GVC integration patterns to better understand the relationship between GVCs and development. In this paper, we apply the new R package decompr to recent OECD input-output…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
Towards an Integrated Database of International Economic Law (IDIEL) disputes for text-as-data analysis
This paper introduces an infrastructure for the analysis of legal metadata and textual data on international investment and trade disputes. The developed database architecture consists of three main components: (1) a WebCrawler of two key web sites for international economic law dispute information; (2) a document analyzer to transform PDFs into text files, identifying structure and…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
The supplier network of exporters: connecting the dots
Even in export-oriented industries, only a handful of firms ship their goods abroad and these firms are systematically different from their purely domestic counterparts. The current picture does not, however, encompass the many firms that export via trade intermediaries or supply exporters with intermediate inputs. This paper uses a new and unique dataset of yearly transactions…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 21/02/2017
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