Political Budget Cycles in Early Versus Regular Elections: The Case of Serbia [0.03%]
论塞尔维亚早于常规时间举行的选举中的政治预算周期问题
Vladan Ivanovic,Endrit Lami,Drini Imami
Vladan Ivanovic
The paper analyses Political Budget Cycles in the context of a young post-communist democracy, Serbia. The authors deploy well-established methodological (time series) approaches to examine the general government budget balance (fiscal defi...
João Tovar Jalles
João Tovar Jalles
Climate change is a big challenge of our time. While there is a bourgeoning literature on the economic impact of climate change, research on how financial crises affect climate change is limited. We empirically use the local projection meth...
Public Finance, Fiscal Rules and Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons for Post-COVID-19 Investment Plans [0.03%]
公共财政、财政规则与公私合作模式：后新冠疫情时代投资规划的启示
Alessandra Cepparulo,Giuseppe Eusepi,Luisa Giuriato
Alessandra Cepparulo
We explore the distribution of public-private partnerships (PPPs) among the European Union countries, with a special focus on fiscal rules and budgetary constraints while controlling for empirically identified drivers. While offering the op...
Gender Gap in Urban Job Market During the Pandemic: The Case of Ukraine [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的城市就业市场性别差距——以乌克兰为例
Tymofii Brik,Maksym Obrizan
Tymofii Brik
Remarkable resistance of Ukraine has become in the world focus starting from the dawn of February 24th, 2022. While policymakers draft plans to address the consequences of the war, it is crucial to understand the pre-war labor market contex...
Multidimensional Deprivation from Labor Market Opportunities in Armenia: Evidence from 2018 and 2020 [0.03%]
亚美尼亚劳动力市场机会的多维剥夺：来自2018年和2020年的证据
Knar Khachatryan,Aleksandr Grigoryan
Knar Khachatryan
This paper explores the multidimensional deprivation from labor market opportunities in Armenia by constructing a Quality of Employment measure. Using Labor Force Survey datasets for the years 2018 and 2020, we conduct a comparative analysi...
Whelsy Boungou,Francis Osei-Tutu,Amara Zongo
Whelsy Boungou
Despite numerous efforts by policymakers, trade among African countries remains abysmal. In this paper, we investigate whether democracy influences intra-Africa trade of goods. Using the gravity model on bilateral trade among 48 Sub-Sahara ...
Legal Weakness, Investment Risks, and Distressed Acquisitions: Evidence from Russian Regions [0.03%]
法律薄弱、投资风险与困境收购：来自俄罗斯地区的证据
Ichiro Iwasaki,Yuko Adachi
Ichiro Iwasaki
This paper traces the survival status of 93,260 Russian business firms in the period of 2007-2019 and empirically examines the determinants of the acquisition of financially distressed companies (i.e., distressed acquisitions). We found tha...
Promoting Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Rules Versus Institutions [0.03%]
促进反周期的财政政策：财政规则与机构制度的关系
Kady Keita,Camelia Turcu
Kady Keita
We explore under different exchange rate regimes how fiscal rules and institutions can reduce the procyclical stance of fiscal policy (i.e. how government spending responds to GDP fluctuations). We construct a fiscal rules index which is a ...
COVID-19 and Gender Gaps in Employment, Wages, and Work Hours: Lower Inequalities and Higher Motherhood Penalty [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的就业、工资与工作时间的性别差距：不平等现象缩小，但母亲身份所面临的劣势更加严峻
Maryna Tverdostup
Maryna Tverdostup
This paper investigates the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages, and work hours during the COVID-19 pandemic, relying on Estonian Labor Force Survey data for 2009-2020. We document that the pandemic has, if anythi...
Long-Term Economic Effects of Populist Legal Reforms: Evidence from Argentina [0.03%]
民粹主义法律改革的长期经济影响——来自阿根廷的证据
Maximiliano Marzetti,Rok Spruk
Maximiliano Marzetti
In this paper, we examine the consequences of populist government for long-term economic growth and development. To this end, we estimate the long-term growth impact of the Juan Péron's political rule in Argentina, which led to a comprehen...