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Giving credit to productivity
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 10/04/2015
Saving by default: evidence from a field experiment in India
A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. Grounding our hypothesis in behavioral economics, we conjecture that being paid on an account instead of in cash can play a major role in encouraging savings. When paid on the account, the money is saved by default, while - as long as payments…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 01/04/2015
The Eurozone crisis: a near-perfect case of mismanagement
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 18/02/2015
Making agricultural innovation systems (AIS) work for development in tropical countries
Agricultural innovation in low-income tropical countries ontributes to a more effective and sustainable use of natural resources and reduces hunger and poverty through economic development in rural areas. Yet, despite numerous recent public and private initiatives to develop capacities for agricultural innovation, such in itiatives are often not well aligned with national efforts…
Institution partenaire
English / 13/01/2015
Corporate governance in a risk society
Under conditions of growing interconnected- ness of the global economy, more and more stakeholders are exposed to risks and costs resulting from business activities that are neither regulated nor compensated for by means of national governance. The changing distribution of risks poses a threat to the legitimacy of business firms that normally derive their legitimacy from operating in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Consumer judgment of explicit and implied health claims on foods: Misguided but not misled
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
Socially responsible investing and stock performance: New empirical evidence for the US and European stock markets
This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It contributes to the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets and by using consistent world-wide corporate sustainability performance data. Our portfolio analysis from 1998 to 2009 is based on the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2014
The origins and resolution of debt crises: it is not always fiscal!
This paper shows that debt crises do not always have a fiscal nature and suggests that fiscal retrenchment may not be the optimal response to a crisis that did not originate from irresponsible fiscal policies. The paper starts by discussing the origin of debt crises and the unexplained part of public debt and for avoiding debt explosions linked to financial crises or poor debt…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 20/10/2014
The State, socialization, and private schooling: when will governments support alternative producers?
Understanding the institutional features that can improve learning outcomes and reduce inequality is a top priority for international and development organizations around the world. Economists appear to have a good case for support to non-governmental alternatives as suppliers of schooling. However, unlike other policy domains, freer international trade or privatization, economists…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 16/10/2014
Procurement of goods and services by international organisations in donor countries
This article examines the procurement of goods and services by multilateral organisations from suppliers, based on a panel data including industrialised countries and emerging economies over 11 years. It presents the results of an empirical study – the first of its kind – on the explanatory factors of variations between countries, which are mainly attributable to such factors as the…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/10/2014
International capital flows under dispersed private information
It is well established that private information is critical to our understanding of asset prices. In this paper we argue that it also affects international capital flows and use a simple two-country DSGE model to illustrate its impact. We show that private information (i) increases the volatility of both net and gross capital flows, (ii) leads to a high correlation between capital…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 14/10/2014
Embracing ambiguity – lessons from the study of corporate social responsibility throughout the rise and decline of the modern welfare state
In the work of Karl Polanyi, the negative effects of a self-regulating market economy are described as being limited by societal forces such as the policies of the welfare state. With the decline of the modern welfare state since the late 1970s, social activities of business firms are increasingly regarded as an important complement to or even as a substitute for welfare state…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2014
The principle of common concern and climate change
Effective policies combating global warming and incentivising reduction of greenhouse gases face fundamental collective action problems. States defending short term interests avoid international commitments and seek to benefit from measures combating global warming taken elsewhere. The paper explores the potential of Common Concern as an emerging principle of international law, in…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2014
Minimum wage and firm employment: evidence from China
This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage data set matched to disaggregated firm survey data. We investigate both the effect of imposing a minimum wage, and the effect of the policies that tightened enforcement in 2004. We find that the average effect of minimum wage changes is modest and positive, and that…
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/04/2014
Do real exchange rate appreciations matter for growth?
While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on “currency wars”. However, in spite of its prevalence in the policy debate, the connection between real exchange rates and growth remains an unsettled…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 04/04/2014
The motivation and impact of organized public resistance against agricultural biotechnology
Fifteen years of experience with the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) corps and countless national and international risk assessments of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) suggest that the risks related to this new technology are not any different from those already known in conventional agriculture. Despite these reassuring findings, public distrust toward GMOs…
Institution partenaire
English / 28/03/2014
The influence of pension funds on corporate governance
Although pension funds have gained importance in the last two decades, their role has not been described in detail by economic models. This article focuses on the scope of these institutional investors when they are not satisfied with a management team of a company in which the pension fund holds a block of shares. Stock holdings by pension funds are largely dispersed. Therefore, any…
Institution partenaire
English / 28/03/2014
The (lack of) impact of impact: why impact evaluations seldom lead to evidence-based policymaking
A recurring puzzle to many academics and some policymakers is why impact evaluations, which have become something of a cottage industry in the development field, have so little impact on actual policymaking. In this paper, I study the impact of impact evaluations. I show, in a simple Bayesian framework embedded within a standard contest success function-based model of competition…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 19/03/2014
Revisiting sovereign bankruptcy
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 07/03/2014
The great misunderstanding of the global food crisis
Institution partenaire
English / 01/03/2014
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