This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state financing

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the d

This article advances our understanding of differences in hybrid stability by going beyond existing regime typologies that separate the study of political institutions from the study of economic institutions. It combines the work of Douglass North,...

The paper re‐examines the real effects of credible disinflation in the presence of real wage rigidities and non‐linear dynamics. A credible, gradual

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. We examine whe

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed firm-level data from Hungary in 1995-2003. We estimate production functions structurally to obtain firm-year-level productivity...

Germany will reintroduce parity funding of the statutory health insurance scheme in 2019 by lowering the contribution rates for employees and raising th

If the monetary authority lacks commitment, a monetary union can dominate flexible exchange rates. With forward-looking staggered pricing, inertia in th

The costs and benfits of moving from a flexible exchange rate regime to a monetary union depend critically on the conduct of monetary policy. In particu

We investigate the relationship of the new wave of digitalization of occupations with entry into different types of entrepreneurship in the United States, including entry into digital entrepreneurship. Based on the Current Population Survey for...