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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
Synthesizing a giant literature: a narrative of quantitative evidence on causes and consequences of financial sector development
The aim of this synthesis paper is to provide a narrative to the empirical findings of the comprehensive literature review concerning the quantitative effects of financial development on economic growth and employment and various determinants of financial sector development. The literature review has been restricted mostly to high-quality academic research that focus on developing...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 13/08/2013
Public debt and economic growth: is there a causal effect?
This paper uses an instrumental variable approach to study whether public debt has a causal effect on economic growth in a sample of OECD countries. The results are consistent with the existing literature that has found a negative correlation between debt and growth. However, the link between debt and growth disappears once we instrument debt with a variable that captures valuation...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 21/05/2013
Havas and the foreign loan market, 1889 to 1921
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 17/05/2013
Profits vs. impact: what can microfinance teach us?
How can the private sector work for development? This paper provides answers to this question from the firms’ perspective by examining the trade-offs that private firms face between maximizing their profits and achieving a positive social impact. In particular, it considers the experience of microfinance as the best available data source from the point of view of a firm engaged in...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 17/05/2013
Inequality, poverty and the 2010 election
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/04/2013
Finance and economic development
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 18/10/2012
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