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Exiting from Lockdowns: Early Evidence from Reopenings in Europe

Author/Editor: Jeffrey R Franks, Bertrand Gruss, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Manasa Patnam, Sebastian Weber.

Release Date:October, 2020

European authorities introduced stringent lockdown measures in early 2020 to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. As the first wave of infection curves flattened and the outbreak appeared controlled, more...



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Automation, Skills and the Future of Work: What do Workers Think?

Author/Editor: Carlos Mulas-Granados, Richard Varghese, Vizhdan Boranova, Alice deChalendar, Judith Wallenstein.

Release Date:December, 2019

We exploit a survey data set that contains information on how 11,000 workers across advanced and emerging market economies perceive the main forces shaping the future of work. In general, workers more...



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Trade Tensions, Global Value Chains, and Spillovers : Insights for Europe

Author/Editor: Raju Huidrom, Nemanja Jovanovic, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Laura Papi, Faezeh Raei, Emil Stavrev, Philippe Wingender.

Release Date:June, 2019

Europe is deeply integrated into global value chains and recent trade tensions raise the question of how European economies would be affected by the introduction of tariffs or other trade barriers. more...



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Fiscal Challenges of Population Aging in Brazil

Author/Editor: Alfredo Cuevas, Izabela Karpowicz, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Mauricio Soto.

Release Date:April, 2017

In recent decades, population has been aging fast in Brazil while old age pensions and healthrelated spending have increased. As the population ages, the spending trend threaten to reach more...



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Fiscal Politics

Author/Editor: Vitor Gaspar, Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados.

Release Date:April, 2017

Two main themes of the book are that (1) politics can distort optimal fiscal policy through elections and through political fragmentation, and (2) rules and institutions can attenuate the negative more...



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Governments and Promised Fiscal Consolidations : Do They Mean What They Say?

Author/Editor: Sanjeev Gupta, João Tovar Jalles, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Michela Schena.

Release Date:February, 2017

This paper analyses the causes and consequences of fiscal consolidation promise gaps, defined as the distance between planned fiscal adjustments and actual consolidations. Using 74 consolidation more...



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Fiscal Discipline and Exchange Rates : Does Politics Matter?

Author/Editor: João Tovar Jalles, Carlos Mulas-Granados, José Tavares.

Release Date:November, 2016

We look at the effect of exchange rate regimes on fiscal discipline, taking into account the effect of underlying political conditions. We present a model where strong politics (defined more...



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The Blind Side of Public Debt Spikes

Author/Editor: Laura Jaramillo, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Elijah Kimani.

Release Date:October, 2016

What explains public debt spikes since the end of WWII? To answer this question, this paper identifies 179 debt spike episodes from 1945 to 2014 across advanced and developing countries. more...



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Fragmented Politics and Public Debt

Author/Editor: Ernesto Crivelli, Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Carolina Correa-Caro.

Release Date:September, 2016

In this paper, we study the impact of fragmented politics on public debt—in particular, between two consecutive legislative elections. Using data for 92 advanced and developing more...



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Functional Income Distribution and Its Role in Explaining Inequality

Author/Editor: Maura Francese, Carlos Mulas-Granados.

Release Date:November, 2015

This paper is motivated by two parallel trends: the declining labor share of income and
 increasing inequality. Micro and macroeconomic data, covering up to 93 countries between
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