Rethinking fiscal rules [0.03%]
反思财政规则
Luis Carranza-Ugarte,Julián Díaz-Saavedra,Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Luis Carranza-Ugarte
The Covid 19 pandemic has caused both a decrease in tax revenues and an increase in public spending, forcing governments to increase fiscal deficits to unprecedented levels. Given these circumstances, it is foreseeable that fiscal rules wil...
Veronika Akhmadieva
Veronika Akhmadieva
The financial crisis from 2007 and, even more so, the Covid-19 pandemic caused large increases in public sector deficits and debts in many countries and prompted concern about fiscal adjustment. This paper examines fiscal adjustment to debt...
Pandemic knowledge and regulation effectiveness: Evidence from COVID-19 [0.03%]
疫情知识与防控效果——来自新冠疫情的经验教训
Luisa Loiacono,Riccardo Puglisi,Leonzio Rizzo et al.
Luisa Loiacono et al.
The spread of COVID-19 led countries around the world to adopt lockdown measures of varying stringency, with the purpose of restricting the movement of people. However, the effectiveness of these measures on mobility has been markedly diffe...
Nicolas Berman,Mathieu Couttenier,Nathalie Monnet et al.
Nicolas Berman et al.
We provide evidence on the link between the policy response to the SARS CoV-2 pandemic and conflicts worldwide. We combine daily information on conflict events and government policy responses to limit the spread of SARS CoV-2 to study how d...
The Contribution of Population Health and Demographic Change to Economic Growth in China and India [0.03%]
中国和印度的人口健康与人口变化对经济增长的贡献
David E Bloom,David Canning,Linlin Hu et al.
David E Bloom et al.
We find that a cross-country model of economic growth successfully tracks the growth takeoffs in China and India. The major drivers of the predicted takeoffs are improved health, increased openness to trade, and a rising labor force-to-popu...
I Adelman,D Sunding
I Adelman
"Using the Kakwani interpolation method to reconstruct rural and urban size distributions, the authors present Lorenz curve estimates for Chinese income distribution by period, 1952-1986. The level of inequality is one of the lowest in the ...
J S Berliner
J S Berliner