Author/Editor: Wojciech Maliszewski, Serkan Arslanalp, John Caparusso, José Garrido, Si Guo, Joong Shik Kang, W Raphael Lam, Daniel Law, Wei Liao, Nadia Rendak, Philippe Wingender, Jiangyan Yu, Longmei Zhang.

Release Date:October, 2016

Corporate credit growth in China has been excessive in recent years. This credit boom is related to the large increase in investment after the Global Financial Crisis. Investment efficiency has more...

Author/Editor: Ian W H Parry, Baoping Shang, Philippe Wingender, Nate Vernon, Tarun Narasimhan.

Release Date:July, 2016

For the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, China pledged to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) intensity of GDP by 60–65 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. This paper develops a practical more...

Author/Editor: Dora Benedek, Ruud A. de Mooij, Philippe Wingender.

Release Date:September, 2015

This paper estimates the pass through of VAT changes to consumer prices, using a unique dataset providing disaggregated, monthly data on prices and VAT rates for 17 Eurozone countries over 1999-2013. more...

Author/Editor: Waikei W. Lam, Philippe Wingender.

Release Date:March, 2015

Revenue reforms can contribute to more inclusive, green, and sustainable growth in China. Relative to OECD economies, fiscal policy in China is less redistributive. Options for promoting more more...

Author/Editor: Katrin Elborgh-Woytek, Monique Newiak, Kalpana Kochhar, Stefania Fabrizio, Kangni R Kpodar, Philippe Wingender, Benedict J Clements, Gerd Schwartz.

Release Date:December, 2013

The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women’s participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women from developing their full economic potential. more...