Author/Editor: Andrew Berg, Lahcen Bounader, Nikolay Gueorguiev, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Kenji Moriyama, Ryota Nakatani, Luis-Felipe Zanna.

Release Date:July, 2021

Many studies predict massive job losses and real wage decline as a result of the ongoing widespread automation of production, a trend that may be further aggravated by the COVID-19 crisis. Yet more...

Author/Editor: Nujin Suphaphiphat, Hiroaki Miyamoto.

Release Date:August, 2020

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one more...

Author/Editor: Jiro Honda, Hiroaki Miyamoto.

Release Date:June, 2020

Would population aging affect the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus? Despite the renewed focus on population aging, there are few empirical studies on the output effects of fiscal policy in aging more...

Author/Editor: Jiro Honda, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Mina Taniguchi.

Release Date:January, 2020

What do we know about the output effects of fiscal policy in low income countries (LICs)? There are very few empirical studies on the subject. This paper fills this gap by estimating the output more...

Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Keyra Primus, Mouhamadou Sy.

Release Date:May, 2019

How can Low-Income Countries (LICs) enhance tax revenue collection to finance their vast development needs? We address this question by analyzing seven tax reform experiences in LICs (Burkina Faso, more...

Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, Hiroaki Miyamoto.

Release Date:January, 2019

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks more...