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A crude shock : explaining the impact of the 2014-16 oil price decline across exporters

Grigoli, Francesco; Herman, Alexander; Swiston, Andrew - 2017

The decline in oil prices in 2014-16 was one of the sharpest in history, and put to test the resilience of oil exporters. We examine the degree to which economic fundamentals entering the oil price decline explain the impact on economic growth across oil exporting economies, and derive policy...

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A hybrid approach to estimating the efficiency of public spending on education in emerging and developing economies

Grigoli, Francesco - 2014

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A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Efficiency of Public Spending on Education in Emerging and Developing Economies

Grigoli, Francesco - 2014

The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has proven challenging. This paper seeks to overcome the difficulties of earlier studies by using a hybrid approach to measure the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging...

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Quality of Government and Living Standards : Adjusting for the Efficiency of Public Spending

Grigoli, Francesco - 2012

It is generally acknowledged that the government’s output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate significant inefficiencies in government...

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Waste not, want not : the efficiency of health expenditure in emerging and developing economies

Grigoli, Francesco; Kapsoli, Javier - 2013

Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency...

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Dampening Global Financial Shocks : Can Macroprudential Regulation Help (More than Capital Controls)?

Bergant, Katharina - 2020

We show that macroprudential regulation can considerably dampen the impact of globalfinancial shocks on emerging … markets. More specifically, a tighter level of regulation reducesthe sensitivity of GDP growth to VIX movements and capital … andliquidity, foreign currency mismatches, and risky forms of credit. We also find that tightermacroprudential regulation allows …

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Protecting lives and livelihoods with early and tight lockdowns

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Lian, Weicheng; … - 2020

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Dampening global financial shocks : can macroprudential regulation help (more than capital controls)?

Bergant, Katharina; Grigoli, Francesco; Hansen, … - 2020

We show that macroprudential regulation can considerably dampen the impact of global financial shocks on emerging … markets. More specifically, a tighter level of regulation reduces the sensitivity of GDP growth to VIX movements and capital … liquidity, foreign currency mismatches, and risky forms of credit. We also find that tighter macroprudential regulation allows …

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Assessing targeted containment policies to fight COVID-19

Checo, Ariadne; Grigoli, Francesco; Mota, Jose M. - 2020

The large economic costs of full-blown lockdowns in response to COVID-19 outbreaks, coupled with heterogeneous mortality rates across age groups, led to question non-discriminatory containment measures. In this paper we provide an assessment of the targeted approach to containment. We propose a...

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COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age

Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2020

Lockdowns and voluntary social distancing led to significant reduction in people's mobility. Yet, there is scant evidence on the heterogeneous effects across segments of the population. Using unique mobility indicators based on anonymized and aggregate data provided by Vodafone for Italy,...

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