Publications des institutions partenaires
What drives financial inclusion at the bottom of pyramid?: empirical evidence from microfinance panel data
Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to approximate financial inclusion in the poorer segments of the population and proposes a quantile regression approach to study the development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have across...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Doing well by doing good ?: empirical evidence from microfinance
This paper proposes novel identification techniques to examine the trade-offs that microfinance institutions face between increasing their profits and their social impact. It uses a quantile regression approach to examine how these trade-offs evolve as institutions become more commercialized. The identification strategy is based on an instrumental variable approach, and also...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia: the state of affairs after the global and European crises
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/06/2015
Minimum wage law for domestic workers: impact evaluation of the indian experience
We conduct an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers that was introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining the matching and difference-in-difference estimation strategies we estimate both the short-run and long-run impacts of the legislation on real wages and on employment opportunities. Our results show a positive impact...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/05/2015
Managing cooperation on climate change: what can we learn from the WTO ?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 12/05/2015
Institutional learning in North-South research partnerships
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/05/2015
Giving credit to productivity
Institution partenaire
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
The impact of land mines on child health: evidence from Angola
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 05/02/2015
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
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