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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
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...
Institution partenaire
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 (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
How preferential are preferential trade agreements?: analysis of product exclusions in PTAs
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International production sharing: insights from exploratory network analysis
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International harmonization of carbon pricing: a proposal for the United States
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Canada - certain measures affecting the renewable energy generation sector (DS412): amicus curiae submission
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Finance and economic development
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 18/10/2012
Informational international public policy making: new international law or not international law and does it even matter?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/01/2012
The interface between the trade and climate change regimes: scoping the issue
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/01/2012
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