Author/Editor: Lusine Lusinyan.

Release Date:August, 2018

The paper uses a supply-side framework based on a production function approach to assess the role of structural reforms in boosting long-term GDP growth in Argentina. The impact of product, labor, more...

Author/Editor: Roberto Cardarelli, Lusine Lusinyan.

Release Date:November, 2015

The recent boom in unconventional energy production is transforming the energy landscape in North America, with important implications for global energy markets and the broader competitiveness more...

Author/Editor: Roberto Cardarelli, Lusine Lusinyan.

Release Date:May, 2015

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth began slowing in the United States in the mid-2000s,before the Great Recession. To many, the main culprit is the fading positive impact of theinformation more...

Author/Editor: Lusine Lusinyan, Dirk Muir.

Release Date:January, 2013

Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor markets. Our analysis, based on the IMF‘s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal more...

Author/Editor: Lusine Lusinyan, Aliona Cebotari, Ricardo Velloso, Jeffrey M. Davis, Amine Mati, Murray Petrie, Paolo Mauro.

Release Date:January, 2009

This paper analyzes the main sources of fiscal risks, including from unexpected changes in macroeconomic variables and banking crises, which can have major consequences for countries' fiscal and more...

Author/Editor: Leo Bonato, Lusine Lusinyan.

Release Date:October, 2004

Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the more...