This article tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the U.K. We motivate our analysis…
A majority of countries neither freely float their currencies nor firmly peg. But most of the remainder in practice also don’t obey such…
To determine the appropriate level of infrastructure spending, there is no alternative to aggregating the results of project-by-project…
We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among…
I discuss the multifaceted economic and financial vulnerabilities that have been created or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic on a…
Today, more than half of low-income countries eligible for relief under the Debt Service Suspension Initiative are either in debt distress…
Linda Bilmes analyzes the impact of the pandemic on local government finances, what’s in their $350 billion package, and how it could help…
Purpose: The use of public–private partnership (PPP) approaches for developing infrastructure has been well recognized. The allocation of…
The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in soaring infection rates, widespread lockdowns, record-shattering declines in output, and…
The core idea is a simple one: public managers should be focused on “creating public value” from the assets entrusted to them by the public…