The pivotal study of the evolving growth trajectories of more than 5 million Brazilian children not only describes Brazil's progress in…
Conflict of interest is among the most regulated forms of official behavior. In the United States, the vast bureaucracy of the Office of…
Martin Wolf begins The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by observing: “As the Cold War ended, in 1989, many agreed … that the Western…
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach…
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Low reporting quality, as demonstrated by lower earnings informativeness, can exacerbate the information asymmetry gap, particularly in…
Economic development is a path-dependent process in which countries accumulate capabilities that allow them to move into more complex…
We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or “haircuts”. Our sample covers 327…
This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt. We focus on the crises’ impact on real…
Recent efforts to control spending, including accountable care organizations, value-based payment, and high-deductible health plans, have…
June 2024, Opinion: "Countries could better address the world’s economic challenges with help from the IMF’s global reserve asset.…