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Ancillary benefits of GHG abatement policies in developing countries: a literature survey
In this subtask we survey the literature that estimates the ancillary benefits of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement in developing countries, and the extent to which its findings can be transferred across countries. Specifically, we focus upon the health benefits from emission reduction in developing nations. In order to evaluate the spillovers and indirect benefits that a country could...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 15/08/2014
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth theoretic perspective
We study the interactions between global population, technological progress, per capita income, the demand for food, and agricultural land expansion over the period 1960 to 2100.We formulate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with a Barro-Becker representation of endogenous fertility. A manufacturing sector provides a consumption good and an agricultural sector provides food to...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 15/08/2014
Tax competition with heterogeneous firms
This paper studies tax competition in an economic geography model that allows for agglomeration economies with trade costs and heterogeneous firms. We find that the Nash equilibrium involves the large country charging a higher tax than the small nation. Lower trade costs lead to an intensification of competition, a drop in Nash tax rates, and a narrowing of the gap. Since large,...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 02/07/2014
Taxes and international risk sharing
We examine the extent to which differences in international tax rates may account for the small correlations of per capita consumption fluctuations across countries. Theory implies a close relationship between relative consumption growth, and consumption and capital income tax rate differentials. We find strong empirical evidence for this relationship. Idiosyncratic output...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 01/07/2014
Financial support from the family network and illegal immigration
Barriers to immigration of low-skilled workers from developing countries into the advanced countries prevent many potential migrants from leaving their countries of origin. With very low home-country wages in relation to the cost of undocumented migration, the opportunity to migrate often hinges on becoming indebted to a human smuggling organization or family and friends. This paper...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/06/2014
External shocks, internal shots: the geography of civil conflicts
This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events in Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the countries or the regions within countries - temporary shocks such as changes in the world demand for agricultural commodities, and...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 04/06/2014
Asylum seeking and irregular migration
This paper develops a model of optimizing behavior of asylum seekers whose objective is to reach an advanced country. Their personal characteristics and the challenges anticipated along the way determine whether they try to reach the ultimate destination with the aid of human smugglers or by applying for resettlement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 25/04/2014
Estimating the output gap to support the management of interest rates in Vietnam
In this paper, I apply three methods to estimate the output gap for Vietnam to support the conduct of monetary policy of the State Bank: the Hodrick-Prescott Filter, the production function approach and Bayesian estimation. I then compare the results obtained from these approaches and discuss their advantages and disadvantages to choose the optimal method for the estimation of the...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 25/04/2014
Loan quality determinants: evaluating the contribution of bank-specific variables, macroeconomic factors and firm level information
This paper uses probit and ordered probit methods to examine the impact of banks’ policies in terms of cost efficiency, capitalization, activity diversification, credit growth and profitability, on the loan quality in the Tunisian banking sector after controlling for the effects of firm-specific characteristics and macroeconomic conditions. Using a data set with detailed information...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 25/04/2014
Business cycles in oil exporting countries: a declining role for oil?
In this study, we investigate the nature and possible sources of economic fluctuations in oil exporting countries using principle component and impulse-response analysis. The principal component analysis shows that the first two components can be statistically significantly explained by world GDP, but not by oil prices. We further develop our study using impulse-response analysis and...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 25/04/2014
Social spending and household welfare: evidence from Azerbaijan
We measure the response of household consumption of different income groups to social spending during the 2002-2012 period using the aggregated Household Budget Survey Data. We find that households respond more strongly to changes in pensions than to changes in allowances and in-kind transfers. The very weak response of households to changes in allowances and in-kind transfers, both...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 01/04/2014
Merger control procedures and institutions: a comparison of the EU and US practice
The objective of this paper is to discuss and compare the role that different constituencies play in US and EU procedures for merger control. We describe the main constituencies (both internal and external) involved in merger control in both jurisdictions and discuss how a typical merger case would be handled under these procedures. At each stage, we consider how the procedure...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 01/04/2014
How do exporters adjust to exchange-rate fluctuations?: new evidence from the East African community
We use a large sample of export transactions from customs files across six developing countries and several years to explore the extent of pricing to market and volume responses to exchange-rate variations in the East African Community (EAC), a customs union, and a control group of exporters from developing countries outside the region. We find that, relative to the control group,...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 27/03/2014
The future of the WTO
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/02/2014
Transferts de fonds et services financiers sur mobile: les modèles d'affaires pour les Postes
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/01/2014
Financial development and economic growth: known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns
This paper summarizes the main findings of the literature on the relationship between financial and economic development (the known knowns), points to directions for future research (the knowns unknowns), and then speculates on the third Rumsfeldian category. The known knowns section organizes the empirical literature on finance and growth into three strands : (1) the traditional...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 17/01/2014
Guest workers: adequate incentives for voluntary return
A guest-worker program can be a very flexible and convenient way of meeting labor shortages in a host country, assuming that the migrants obeythe rules. This paper investigates the conditions under which guest workers have sufficient incentives for voluntary return to their country of origin when their work permits expire. The analysis is conducted in the context of a lenient...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 15/01/2014
Debt levels, debt composition, and sovereign spreads in emerging and advanced economies
This paper studies the relationship between sovereign spreads and the interaction between debt composition and debt levels in advanced and emerging market countries. It finds that in emerging market countries there is a significant correlation between spreads and debt levels. This correlation, however, is not statistically significant in countries where most public debt is...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2013
An evaluation of the impact of the natural forest protection programme on rural household livelihoods
In this paper, we estimate the impact on local household livelihoods of the Natural Forest Protection Programme (NFPP), the largest logging ban programme in the world that aims to protect watershed and conserve natural forests. In doing so we use a series of policy evaluation micro-econometric techniques to assess the impacts of the NFPP on two interrelated facets of household...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 13/08/2013
Is inflation targeting dead?: central banking after the crisis
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 10/06/2013
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