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Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 07/04/2017
Introduction: cycling backwards
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/02/2017
Minimum wages 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 / 24/02/2017
On the roles of different foreign currencies in European bank lending
We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially households. It is sensitive to the interest rate differential, exchange rate developments,...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/02/2017
Business-humanitarian partnerships: processes of normative legitimation
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/12/2016
Liquidity-driven FDI
We develop a model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in which financially liquid foreign firms acquire liquidity-constrained target firms. Using a large dataset of emerging-market acquisitions, we find evidence supporting three central predictions of the model: (i) firms in external finance dependent and intangible sectors are more likely to be targets of foreign acquisitions; (ii)...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 25/10/2016
Can countries rely on foreign saving for investment and economic development?
A surprisingly large number of countries have been able to finance a significant fraction of domestic investment using foreign finance for extended periods. While many of these episodes are in low-income countries where official finance is more important than private finance, this paper also identifies a number of episodes where a substantial fraction of domestic investment was...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 29/08/2016
Making the next billion demand access: the local content effect of google.co.za in Setswana
Recent attempts to connect the current ‘next billion’ to the Internet in places such as sub-Saharan Africa have not met expectations. In places where Internet infrastructure has come online and prices have gone down, the expected consequent increase in uptake was not observed. I develop a framework that incorporates language in the the two-sided markets framework, viewing differences...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/08/2016
The quest to lower high remittance costs to Africa: a brief review of the use of mobile banking and bitcoins
The paper reviews the latest technological tools that arguably can contribute to reducing the excessively high costs of remittance transactions in Africa. Indeed, despite huge remittance inflows to and within the continent, Africa is the most expensive destination to send money to. As remittances have become more important than Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Direct...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/03/2016
Fire-sale FDI or business as usual?
Motivated by a set of stylized facts, we develop a model of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As;) to study foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets. We compare acquisitions undertaken during financial crises – so called fire-sale FDI –with acquisitions made during non-crisis periods to examine whether the outcomes differ in the ways predicted by the model....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 11/03/2016
Retombées économiques de l'aide publique au développement en Suisse: étude 2014
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/02/2016
Braving the waves: the role of time and risk preferences in illegal migration from Senegal
This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time ans risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time and risk preferences through the individual's intertemporal discount rate and coefficient of...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 15/01/2016
The Eurozone crisis: a consensus view of the causes and a few possible solutions
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 07/12/2015
Closing the gender gap in education: what is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers?
The educational gender gap has closed or reversed in many countries. But what of gendered labour market inequalities? Using micro-level census data for some 40 countries, the authors examine the labour force participation gap between men and women, the “marriage gap” between married and single women’s participation, and the “motherhood gap” between mothers’ and nonmothers’...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Does public sector control reduce variance in school quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what ‘could’ happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the association between school sector and the variance...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Institutions, corporate governance and capital flows
Countries with weaker domestic investor protection hold less diversified international portfolios. An equilibrium business cycle model of North-South capital flow with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and corporate insiders explains this phenomenon through two channels. First,weak governance leads to concentrated ownership in the South because international...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 05/10/2015
Institutions, mobilization and rebellion in post-colonial societies
We revisit the simultaneous equations model of rebellion, mobilization, grievances and repression proposed by Gurr and Moore (1997). Our main contribution is to clarify and improve on the underlying identification strategy and to emphasize the role played by the institutional environment. Instrumental variables estimates for post-colonial societies reveal that the strength of the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 29/07/2015
WTO 2.0: governance of 21st century trade
The cross-border flows of goods, investment, services, know-how and people associated with international production networks–call it ‘supply-chain trade’ for short–has transformed the world. The WTO has not kept pace. This paper argues that adapting world trade governance to the realities of supply-chain trade will require a new organization–a WTO 2.0 as it were. Reasoning on the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 24/07/2015
The impact of three Mexican nutritional programs: the case of Dif-Puebla
This paper presents an impact evaluation of three nutritional programs implemented in Puebla, Mexico, run by SEDIF, a social assistance institution. The present study uses both a propensity score matching and weighting in order to balance the treatment and the control groups in terms of observable characteristics, and to estimate, later on, the causal effect of the programs on...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Masked development: exploring the hidden benefits of the Zapatista conflict
In 1994, the Zapatistas took up arms claiming for indigenous people rights in Chiapas, Mexico. After 12 days of civil war, the national government called for dialogue. Nevertheless, since then, it has deployed a "low intensity war" over the self-declared Zapatista Autonomous Communities. At the same time, the Zapatistas started to implement a new set of institutions, which have...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
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