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...

Author/Editor: Can Sever.

Release Date:July, 2022

The unequal treatment of women in the law is one of the most visible forms of gender inequality. Prevalent legal constraints on the basis of gender prevent women, and thereby economies, from reaching more...

Author/Editor: Can Sever, Manuel Perez-Archila.

Release Date:November, 2021

This paper builds a framework to quantify the financial stability implications of climate-related transition risk in Colombia. We explore risks imposed on the banking system based on scenarios of an more...

Author/Editor: Can Sever, Rohit Goel, Dimitris Drakopoulos, Evan Papageorgiou.

Release Date:December, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic led many emerging market central banks to adopt, for the first time, unconventional policies in the form of asset purchase programs. In this study, we analyze the effects of more...

Author/Editor: Ata Can Bertay, Ljubica Dordevic, Can Sever.

Release Date:July, 2020

We study whether higher gender equality facilitates economic growth by enabling better allocation of a valuable resource: female labor. By allocating female labor to its more productive use, we more...

Author/Editor: JaeBin Ahn, Romain A Duval, Can Sever.

Release Date:February, 2020

While there is growing evidence of persistent or even permanent output losses from financial crises, the causes remain unclear. One candidate is intangible capital – a rising driver of economic more...