 | Electoral Cycles in Tax Reforms Author/Editor: Antonio David, Can Sever. Release Date:November, 2022 We examine electoral cycles in tax reforms using monthly data over the period of 1990-2018 for 22 advanced economies and emerging markets. We show that governments tend to avoid announcing tax more...
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| Strengthening the WAEMU Regional Fiscal Framework Author/Editor: Antonio David, Alexandre Nguyen-Duong, Hoda Selim. Release Date:March, 2022 This paper assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of the WAEMU fiscal framework along three pillars that have proven to effectively support fiscal discipline in monetary unions—common fiscal rules more...
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| The Macroeconomic Effects of Structural Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean Author/Editor: Antonio David, Takuji Komatsuzaki, Samuel Pienknagura. Release Date:September, 2020 This paper estimates the macroeconomic effects of structural reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) using the dataset constructed by Alesina et al. (2020). We find that large changes in the more...
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| Reexamining the National Savings-Investment Nexus Across Time and Countries Author/Editor: Antonio David, Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves, Alejandro M Werner. Release Date:July, 2020 Domestic savings and investment are positively correlated across countries and through time, as Feldstein-Horioka (FH) unveiled 40 years ago. We argue that an interpretation of this correlation based more...
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| Labor Market Dynamics, Informality and Regulations in Latin America Author/Editor: Antonio David, Samuel Pienknagura, Jorge Roldos. Release Date:January, 2020 Labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are characterized by high levels of informality and relatively rigid regulation. This paper shows that these two features are related and more...
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| In Search of Lost Time: Examining the Duration of Sudden Stops in Capital Flows Author/Editor: Antonio David, Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves. Release Date:November, 2019 This paper investigates what factors affect the duration of sudden stops in capital flows using quarterly data for a large panel of countries. We find that countries with floating exchange rate more...
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| The Rewards of Fiscal Consolidation: Sovereign Spreads and Confidence Effects Author/Editor: Antonio David, Jaime Guajardo, Juan Yepez. Release Date:July, 2019 This paper investigates the effects of fiscal consolidation announcements on sovereign spreads in a panel of 21 emerging market economies during 2000-18. We construct a novel dataset using a global more...
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| More Work to Do? Taking Stock of Latin American Labor Markets Author/Editor: Antonio David, Frederic Lambert, Frederik G Toscani. Release Date:March, 2019 We analyze the performance of labor markets in Latin America since the late 1990s. Strong GDP growth during the commodity boom period led to important gains in employment and a fall in the more...
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| The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Latin America Author/Editor: Yan Carriere-Swallow, Antonio David, Daniel Leigh. Release Date:June, 2018 We estimate the short-term effects of fiscal consolidation on economic activity in 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. We examine contemporaneous policy documents to identify changes in more...
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| A New Action-based Dataset of Fiscal Consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean Author/Editor: Antonio David, Daniel Leigh. Release Date:April, 2018 This paper presents a new database of fiscal consolidations for 14 Latin American and Caribbean economies during 1989-2016. We focus on discretionary changes in taxes and government spending more...
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