This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze and project labor market indicators for any country with sufficient data coverage. Section I explains the motivation behind designing a new surveillance tool to study labor...

This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze and project labor market indicators for any country with sufficient data coverage. Section I explains the motivation behind designing a new surveillance tool to study labor...

Cette note est un guide d'utilisation du tableur sur le chomage, outil econometrique qui permet d'analyser et de projeter les indicateurs du marche du travail dans les pays dotes d'une couverture statistique suffisante. La section I expose les raisons qui ont motive la mise au point d'un nouvel...

Good regulation can only come from having a vigorous public conversation on regulatory issues during normal times. Such an ongoing public exchange between regulators, the financial industry, and politicians would increase the probability of identifying emerging problems and the build-up of...

The literature on the economic effects of electronic money and banking lacks organization and a common analytical framework. This paper identifies the main issues raised by e-money and e-banking and presents them as six puzzles. Our solutions to the puzzles build a framework for analyzing the...