Author/Editor: Ahmed I Al-Darwish, Naif Alghaith, Alberto Behar, Tim Callen, Pragyan Deb, Amgad Hegazy, Padamja Khandelwal, Malika Pant, Haonan Qu.

Release Date:March, 2015

Saudi Arabia: Tackling Emerging Economic Challenges to Sustain Strong Growth more...

Author/Editor: Tim Callen, Reda Cherif, Fuad Hasanov, Amgad Hegazy, Padamja Khandelwal.

Release Date:December, 2014

Abstract: The economies of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are heavily reliant on oil. Greater economic diversification would reduce their exposure to volatility and uncertainty in more...

Author/Editor: Tim Callen, Warwick J McKibbin, Nicoletta Batini.

Release Date:January, 2006

The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over the next 80 years for Japan, the United States, other industrial countries, more...

Author/Editor: Tim Callen, Jonathan David Ostry.

Release Date:February, 2003

Japan’s weak economic performance in the 1990s has had implications not only for its own people, but for the world economy more generally, given Japan’s importance as a trading partner and more...

Author/Editor: Tim Callen, Warwick J McKibbin.

Release Date:September, 2001

This paper uses the G-Cubed (Asia-Pacific) model-a macroeconomic model with rich cross-country links-to explore the implications for Japan and Asia of several shocks to the Japanese economy. The more...

Author/Editor: Tim Callen, Christian Thimann.

Release Date:December, 1997

This paper analyzes the empirical determinants of household saving using data from 21 OECD countries for 1975-95. A particular focus is the influence of the tax and social security systems on more...