KBW 26: The COVID-19 virus has spread to 215 countries, virtually covering all areas of the world, and has plunged the world in a health emergency.

We use a dynamic trade model with two sectors and two types of workers to analyze the optimal setting of income-generating tariffs. This approach allows us to take account of adjustment dynamics, distributional aspects and the time horizon of policy...

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

International student flows from emerging and developing countries have grown tremendously over the last decades. In this paper, we address the question of whether donors, who might care about the potential brain drain effects student emigration...

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

The COVID-19 outbreak has cut China's supply of and raised the world's demand for face masks, disinfectants, ventilators, and other critical medical goods. This article studies the economic and political factors that are associated with China's...

Since policymakers increasingly regard foreign aid as a means to manage international flows of migrants, it is important to obtain accurate empirical ev

This paper describes the construction of a 2012 Social Accounting Matrix for the Republic of Yemen. The Yemen SAM identifies 25 activities and 25 commodities, with 10 agricultural activities further disaggregated across 4 regions: Highlands, Red Sea...

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,...

Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sect