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• Working Paper No. 1033 November 20, 2023

  The Impact of Climate Change on the Palestinian Sectoral Reallocation of Labor

  Sameh Hallaq, and Yousuf Daas
  Abstract

  The research leverages yearly variations in climate variables, such as rainfall and temperature, across the West Bank from 1999 to 2018 to assess their influence on individuals' decisions to stay in the agricultural sector. The main findings suggest that an increase in rainfall in the previous year is associated with a higher proportion of workers […]

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• Working Paper No. 1032 October 16, 2023

  Applying OECD Policy Evaluation Criteria to Child Protection Schemes in India

  Lekha S. Chakraborty, Amandeep Kaur, Jitesh Yadav, and Balamuraly B
  Abstract

  The policy evaluation is a crucial component in analyzing the efficacy of public spending in translating the money spent into desired outcomes. Using OECD evaluation criteria, we analyzed the child protection schemes of Odisha to understand whether legal commitments on child protection are translated into fiscal commitments. The intergovernmental fiscal transfers and state-targeted programs for […]

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• Working Paper No. 1031 October 09, 2023

  A Stock-Flow Ecological Model from a Latin American Perspective

  Lorenzo Nalin, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, Leonardo Rojas Rodriguez, Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, and José Eduardo Alatorre
  Abstract

  This study aims to develop an ecological stock-flow consistent (SFC) model based on the Latin American–stylized facts regarding economic, financial, and environmental features. We combine the macro-financial theoretical framework by Pérez-Caldentey et al. (2021, 2023) and the ecological modeling of Carnevali et al. (2020) and Dafermos et al. (2018). We discuss two scenarios that test […]

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• Working Paper No. 1030 October 09, 2023

  Economic Transformation and Growth in the Philippines

  Jesus Felipe, Edgar Desher Empeño, and Brendan Miranda
  Abstract

  The main gateway for the Philippines to develop and become an upper-middle-income economy—and eventually, a high-income economy—is to expedite the shift of workers out of agriculture and to produce and export more complex products with a higher income elasticity of demand. The actual growth rate is constrained by the balance-of-payments equilibrium growth rate, about 6 […]

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• Working Paper No. 1029 September 07, 2023

  Is Anything Left of the Debate about the Sources of Growth in East Asia Thirty Years Later?

  Jesus Felipe, and John McCombie
  Abstract

  The year 2023 commemorates the 30th anniversary of the publication of the influential, yet controversial, study The East Asian Miracle report by the World Bank (1993). An important part of the report’s analysis was concerned with the sources of growth in East Asia. This was based on the neoclassical decomposition of growth into productivity and […]

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• Working Paper No. 1028 August 21, 2023

  Contractionary Effects of Foreign Price Shocks (and Potentially Expansionary Effects of Inflation)

  Michalis Nikiforos, and Simon Grothe
  Abstract

  Using the model proposed in Krugman and Taylor’s “Contractionary effects of devaluation” (1978), we examine the macroeconomic effects of shocks to foreign prices. We show that these shocks can be contractionary for two reasons: (i) because they imply a loss of income if an economy has a trade deficit or import prices increase proportionally more […]

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• Working Paper No. 1027 August 07, 2023

  Structural Change and Gender Sectoral Segregation in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Izaskun Zuazu
  Abstract

  Structural change has long been at the core of economic development debates. However, the gender implications of structural change are still largely unexplored. This paper helps to fill this gap by analyzing the role of structural change in the gender distribution of sectoral employment in sub-Saharan African countries. I employ aggregate and disaggregate measures of […]

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• Working Paper No. 1026 August 01, 2023

  Banking Sector, Distributive Conflict, and Monetary Theory of Distribution

  Riccardo Zolea
  Abstract

  This paper analyzes the implications of distributional contrast for the monetary theory of distribution. The first step is to try to introduce the banking sector within Pivetti's monetary distribution theory approach. Pivetti in fact does not analyze the links between the central bank and the banking sector. It therefore seems interesting to study what role […]

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• Working Paper No. 1025 August 01, 2023

  Unconventional Monetary Policy or Automatic Stabilizers?

  Nitin Nair
  Abstract

  The purpose of public policy, expansionary or contractionary, is to encourage the expansion of income, output, and employment. Theory decides the nature and kind of policy, and the underlying mechanics that result in expansion. Keynes (1964) brings money and a monetary production economy to the forefront of economic analysis, yet in the General Theory, he […]

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• Working Paper No. 1024 July 26, 2023

  When Minsky and Godley Met Structuralism

  Nitin Nair
  Abstract

  Underdevelopment is often conceived as being reproduced domestically. This paper emphasizes the international forces that enable the persistence of underdevelopment. We first explore how the currency hierarchy imposes a dependency relation between developed and underdeveloped economies. We improvise and quantify the currency hierarchy using ratios from the consolidated sovereign balance sheet. Using the improvisation of […]

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• Working Paper No. 1023 July 14, 2023

  Climate Change and Fiscal Marksmanship

  Lekha S. Chakraborty, Amandeep Kaur, Ajay Narayan Jha, and Balamuraly B
  Abstract

  According to the theory of efficient markets, economic agents use all available information to form rational expectations. The rational expectations hypothesis asserts that information is scarce, the economic system generally does not waste information, and that expectations depend specifically on the structure of the entire system. Fiscal marksmanship—the accuracy of budgetary forecasting—can be one important […]

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• Working Paper No. 1022 July 12, 2023

  Has the Time for a European Job Guarantee Policy Arrived?

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  As country after country in the European Union is called to respond to the current challenge of our time—high inflation and declining real wages—governments must engage in a transformative agenda and go beyond emergency energy vouchers and income support cash-transfers. And if the goal is to lead the way to a resilient and sustainable European […]

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• Working Paper No. 1021 June 29, 2023

  Can It Be Prevented This Time?

  Giuseppe Mastromatteo, and Lorenzo Esposito
  Abstract

  Since the nineties, crises have punctuated financial markets, shattering the conventional wisdom about how these markets work and how to regulate them, and forcing a deep rethinking of the supervisory framework that, however, did not change much of the banks’ behavior and incentives. In particular, banking regulation did not face the nexus profitability-riskiness. Based on […]

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• Working Paper No. 1020 June 28, 2023

  The Macrodynamics of Indian Rupee Swap Yields

  Tanweer Akram, and Khawaja Mamun
  Abstract

  This paper econometrically models the dynamics of Indian rupee (INR) swap yields based on key macroeconomic factors using the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) approach. It examines whether the short-term interest rate has a decisive influence on long-term INR swap yields after controlling for other factors, such as core inflation, the growth of industrial production, the […]

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• Working Paper No. 1019 May 08, 2023

  An Inquiry Concerning Japanese Yen Interest Rate Swap Yields

  Tanweer Akram, and Khawaja Mamun
  Abstract

  This paper econometrically models Japanese yen (JPY)–denominated interest rate swap yields. It examines whether the short-term interest rate exerts an influence on the long-term JPY swap yield after controlling for several key macroeconomic variables, such as core inflation, the growth of industrial production, the percentage change in the equity price index, and the percentage change […]

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• Working Paper No. 1018 April 21, 2023

  The Unbearable Weight of Aging

  L. Randall Wray, Yeva Nersisyan, and Xinhua Liu
  Abstract

  The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China’s population fell as deaths surpassed births. Pundits worry that a declining Chinese workforce means trouble for other economies that have come to rely on China’s exports. France is pushing through an increase of the retirement age in the face of […]

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• Working Paper No. 1017 April 12, 2023

  Rentiers, Strategic Public Goods, and Financialization in the Periphery

  Gabriel Porcile, and Gilberto Tadeu Lima
  Abstract

  This paper revisits a traditional theme in the literature on the political economy of development, namely how to redistribute rents from traditional exporters of natural resources toward capitalists in technology-intensive sectors with a higher potential for innovation and the creation of higher-productivity jobs. Porcile and Lima argue that this conflict has been reshaped in the […]

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• Working Paper No. 1016 February 23, 2023

  Monetary Policy and the Gender and Racial Employment Dynamics in Brazil

  Patricia Couto, and Clara Brenck
  Abstract

  Monetary policy has been historically concerned with controlling inflation, using the interest rate as its main tool. However, such policies are not gender- or race-neutral. This paper explores econometrically the effect of changes in the interest rate for female and black employment creation in Brazil. We conduct a panel data fixed effects analysis for 13 […]

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• Working Paper No. 1015 February 20, 2023

  CBDC Next-Level: A New Architecture for Financial “Super-Stability” 

  Biagio Bossone, and Michael Haines
  Abstract

  Fractional reserve regimes generate fragile banking, and full reserve regimes (e.g., narrow banking) remove fragility at the cost of suppressing the role of banks as lenders. A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) could provide safe money, but at the cost of potentially disrupting bank lending. Our aim is to avoid this potential disruption. Building on […]

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• Working Paper No. 1014 February 16, 2023

  Chinese Yuan Interest Rate Swap Yields

  Tanweer Akram, and Khawaja Mamun
  Abstract

  This paper models the dynamics of Chinese yuan (CNY)–denominated long-term interest rate swap yields. The financial sector plays a vital role in the Chinese economy, which has grown rapidly in the past several decades. Going forward, interest rate swaps are likely to have an important role in the Chinese financial system. This paper shows that […]

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• Working Paper No. 1013 January 18, 2023

  The Economic and Environmental Effects of a Green Employer of Last Resort

  Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, Nikolaos Rodousakis, and George Soklis
  Abstract

  We assess the sectoral impact of the implementation of a “green” employer of last resort (ELR) program in the US, based on an environmental modification of an extended Kurz’s (1985) multiplier framework and data from OECD Input-Output tables. We use these multipliers to estimate the impact of an “optimal” ELR, designed to maximize the impact […]

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• Working Paper No. 1012 December 16, 2022

  An Analysis of UK Swap Yields

  Tanweer Akram, and Khawaja Mamun
  Abstract

  John Maynard Keynes argued that the central bank influences the long-term interest rate through the effect of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. However, Keynes's claim was confined to the behavior of the long-term government bond yield. This paper investigates whether Keynes's claim holds for the yields of spread products and over-the-counter financial […]

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• Working Paper No. 1011 September 27, 2022

  The Dynamics of Monthly Changes in US Swap Yields

  Tanweer Akram, and Khawaja Mamun
  Abstract

  John Maynard Keynes (1930) asserted that the central bank sways the long-term interest rate through the influence of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. Recent empirical research shows that Keynes's conjecture holds for long-term Treasury yields in the United States. This paper investigates whether Keynes's conjecture also holds for the monthly changes in […]

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• Working Paper No. 1010 September 06, 2022

  Reflections on Angela Merkel’s Career as Chancellor of Germany and the Greek Financial Odyssey

  George Zestos, Harrison Whittleton, and Alejandro Fernandez-Ribas
  Abstract

  Angela Merkel is the second-longest-serving chancellor of modern Germany, with more than 16 years in office. During her tenure there were many years of economic stability, but there were also years of domestic, EU, and geopolitical tensions. Merkel inherited an economy that was recovering after the launching of probusiness policies known as the Hartz I […]

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