Maximilian Kasy,Alexander Teytelboym
Maximilian Kasy
We show how to efficiently use costly testing resources in an epidemic, when testing outcomes can be used to make quarantine decisions. If the costs of false quarantine and false release exceed the cost of testing, the optimal myopic testin...
Banu Demir,Beata Javorcik
Banu Demir
This study documents a substantial decline in the exports of major trading nations taking place in March 2020. Accounting for product-specific seasonality and annual trends, the data suggest a drop by 38 per cent in France, about a quarter ...
Tax progressivity and taxing the rich in developing countries: lessons from Latin America [0.03%]
发展中国家的税收累进性及向富人征税：拉美的启示
Marcelo Bergolo,Juliana Londoño-Vélez,Darío Tortarolo
Marcelo Bergolo
This article discusses the challenges and potential policy choices for levying progressive taxes and taxing the rich in Latin America, a region known for its high-income inequality, limited tax-collection capacity, and low share of taxes co...
Refugees, trade, and FDI [0.03%]
难民、贸易与外国直接投资
Dany Bahar,Christopher Parsons,Pierre-Louis Vézina
Dany Bahar
Humanitarian policies aimed at welcoming forced migrants may yield unexpected economic dividends. This article focuses on the trade and investment links forged by refugees between their countries of resettlement and the origins they fled. W...
Bonnie G Buchanan,Danika Wright
Bonnie G Buchanan
Machine learning is an increasingly key influence on the financial services industry. In this paper, we review the roles and impact of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) on the UK financial services industry. We survey t...
Frank Cörvers,Ken Mayhew
Frank Cörvers
Significant regional inequalities of income and wealth exist in every Western European country and in North America, but their extent varies from country to country. In both Europe and the US, it is generally thought that they tended to nar...
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Emerging threats to global health, including drug-resistant pathogens, emerging pandemics, and outbreaks, represent global trans-boundary commons problems where the actions of individual countries have consequences for other countries. Here...
Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation: evidence from a UK longitudinal study [0.03%]
伴侣暴力暴露与儿童技能的动态积累——来自英国纵向研究的证据
Dan Anderberg,Gloria Moroni
Dan Anderberg
Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK longitudinal child development survey to study the relationship between verbal and physical abuse experienced by mothers and...
Carling, J.
Carling