Publications des institutions partenaires
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
Trade costs, global value chains and economic development
This paper develops a model with sequential production stages and international trade frictions that permits an analysis of how decreases in trade costs shape the interdependence between countries, with special focus on the joining and industrialization pattern of developing countries into the global value chains (GVCs). I show that in a two-country setting, a decrease in trade costs...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 25/02/2015
Unexpected pricing-to-market in goods classified as homogeneous
This paper uses cross-country, firm-level, panel data to study how exporters from Low Income Countries (LICs) adjust their prices according to their trade partners’ characteristics. The results show that the free on board (fob) price of exports is differentiated across markets in all countries in the sample. This differentiated pricing is not commonly associated with small economies...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/02/2015
The Eurozone crisis: a near-perfect case of mismanagement
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 18/02/2015
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...
Institution partenaire
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
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
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