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Chérif, Réda - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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State-Level Health and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India

Deb, Pragyan; Xu, TengTeng - 2022

The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union …. State characteristics, such as health care infrastructure and the share of services in the economy, played an important role … in shaping the health and economic outcomes, highlighting the importance of adequate social spending, health care …

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Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and Their Effects on Health Outcomes

Deb, Pragyan; Furceri, Davide; Jiménez, Daniel; … - 2022

This paper examines empirically the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts and their effects on health outcomes. We … assemble a comprehensive and novel cross-country database at a daily frequency on vaccinations and various health outcomes (new …’s health infrastructure, and vaccine acceptance are significant determinants of the speed of vaccination rollouts; (ii) vaccine …

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Does an Inclusive Citizenship Law Promote Economic Development?

Imam, Patrick - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus sanguinis as well as mixed regimes, and shedding light on the channels through which they could have...

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Populism and Civil Society

Boeri, Tito - 2019

Populists claim to be the only legitimate representative of the people. Does it mean that there is no space for civil society? The issue is important because since Tocqueville (1835), associations and civil society have been recognized as a key factor in a healthy liberal democracy. We ask two...

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Tax Policy Measures in Advanced and Emerging Economies : A Novel Database

Amaglobeli, David - 2018

This paper describes a new, comprehensive database of tax policy measures in 23 advanced and emerging market economies over the last four decades. We extract this information from more than 900 OECD Economic Surveys and 37,000 tax-related news from the International Bureau of Fiscal...

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Doing More for Less? New Evidence on Lobbying and Government Contracts

Agca, Senay - 2019

Why do firms lobby? This paper exploits the unanticipated sequestration of federal budget accounts in March 2013 that reduced the availability of government funds disbursed through procurement contracts to shed light on this question. Following this event, firms with little or no prior exposure...

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Regulatory Cycles : Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises

Dagher, Jihad C. - 2018

Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. This paper examines the political economy of financial policy during ten of the most infamous financial...

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Building a Better Union : Incentivizing Structural Reforms in the Euro Area

Banerji, Angana - 2015

The momentum for structural reforms is waning in the euro area at a time when even faster progress is needed to boost productivity and growth, achieve real economic convergence, and improve the resilience of the monetary union. What can the European Union (EU) institutions do to bridge this...

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Political Costs of Tax-Based Consolidations

Chen, Chuling - 2020

This paper studies the impact of tax-based consolidations on reelection outcomes. Using a granular database of tax-based consolidations for a panel of 10 OECD countries over the last 40 years, we find that tax reforms are politically costly but some reforms are costlier than others. Measures...

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