Report NEP-CWA-2021-01-18

This is the archive for NEP-CWA, a report on new working papers in the area of Central and Western Asia. Avinash Vats issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Ms. Emilia M Jurzyk & Medha Madhu Nair & Nathalie Pouokam & Tahsin Saadi Sedik & Mrs. Irina Yakadina, 2020. "COVID-19 and Inequality in Asia: Breaking the Vicious Cycle," IMF Working Papers 2020/217, International Monetary Fund.
• World Bank, 2020. "Disaster Property Insurance in Uzbekistan," World Bank Publications - Reports 33885, The World Bank Group.
• International Monetary Fund, 2019. "Mongolia: Selected Issues," IMF Staff Country Reports 2019/298, International Monetary Fund.
• , Aisdl, 2020. "Barriers to Entrepreneurship in Ho Chi Minh City," OSF Preprints sh32d, Center for Open Science.
• Kaumudi Misra, 2019. "The relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions in India," Working Papers 447, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• World Bank, 2020. "Getting Value for Money in Social Service Delivery for Serbia," World Bank Publications - Reports 33310, The World Bank Group.
• Li, Honghui & Hiwatari, Masato, 2020. "Family Size and Educational Attainment : The Case of China," Discussion paper series. A 353, Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University.
• Saroj Bhattarai & Jae Won Lee & Choongryul Yang, 2020. "Redistribution and the Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix," CESifo Working Paper Series 8779, CESifo.
• Chu, Shuai & Liu, Xiangbo, 2021. "Do research universities boost regional economic development? - Evidence from China," GLO Discussion Paper Series 748, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
• Gabriel Machlica, 2020. "Reducing socio-economic differences between municipalities in Israel," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1645, OECD Publishing.
• Haushofer, Johannes & Mudida, Robert & Shapiro, Jeremy, 2021. "The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being," Working Paper Series 1377, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
• World Bank, 2020. "Violence Against Children," World Bank Publications - Reports 33573, The World Bank Group.
• Chatelain, Jean-Bernard & Ralf, Kirsten, 2020. "Ramsey Optimal Policy in the New-Keynesian Model with Public Debt," MPRA Paper 104536, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Patrick Blagrave & Mr. Fabien Gonguet, 2020. "Enhancing Fiscal Transparency and Reporting in India," IMF Working Papers 2020/250, International Monetary Fund.
• Peter Mockel & Baloko Makala, 2019. "Artificial Intelligence and 5G Mobile Technology Can Drive Investment Opportunities in Emerging Markets," World Bank Publications - Reports 33388, The World Bank Group.
• Javier Silvestre, 2021. "Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800-1913," Working Papers 0205, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
• Yuhua Li & Ze Jian & Wei Tian & Laixun Zhao, 2021. "How Political Conflicts Distort Bilateral Trade: Firm-Level Evidence from China," Discussion Paper Series DP2021-01, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
• World Bank, 2019. "Mind the Rural Investment Gap," World Bank Publications - Reports 33282, The World Bank Group.
• Binder, Martin & Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin, 2021. "Self-employment and Subjective Well-Being," GLO Discussion Paper Series 744, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
• World Bank, 2020. "Invest in Education Early, Smartly and for All," World Bank Publications - Reports 33311, The World Bank Group.
• Minsuk Kim & Rui Mano & Mr. Mico Mrkaic, 2020. "Do FX Interventions Lead to Higher FX Debt? Evidence from Firm-Level Data," IMF Working Papers 2020/197, International Monetary Fund.
• Della Giusta, Marina & Bosworth, Steven J., 2020. "Bias and Discrimination: What Do We Know?," IZA Discussion Papers 13983, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Virtanen, Hanna & Riukula, Krista, 2021. "The Effect of Access to Post-Compulsory Education: Evidence from Structural Breaks in School Supply," ETLA Working Papers 85, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
• World Bank, 2020. "Addressing Malnutrition and Investing in Early Years in Nepal in a Federalized Context," World Bank Publications - Reports 34144, The World Bank Group.
• Loïc Berger & Massimo Marinacci, 2020. "Model Uncertainty in Climate Change Economics: A Review and Proposed Framework for Future Research," Post-Print hal-02914088, HAL.
• Tumbe, Chinmay, 2020. "Pandemics and Historical Mortality in India," IIMA Working Papers WP 2020-12-03, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
• Paras Kharel, 2020. "Industrialization, input duties and revenue concerns in Nepal," Working Papers wp/20/01, South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment.
• World Bank, 2019. "Finance for Growth," World Bank Publications - Reports 33563, The World Bank Group.
• Enrico Santarelli & Jacopo Staccioli & Marco Vivarelli, 2021. "Robots, AI, and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base," LEM Papers Series 2021/01, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
• Mr. Nicola Pierri & Mr. Yannick Timmer, 2020. "IT Shields: Technology Adoption and Economic Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic," IMF Working Papers 2020/208, International Monetary Fund.
• John Graham, 2020. "E-Bus Economics," World Bank Publications - Reports 33641, The World Bank Group.
• Gordon H. Hanson, 2020. "Who Will Fill China's Shoes? The Global Evolution of Labor-Intensive Manufacturing," NBER Working Papers 28313, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Sebastian Morris, Ajay Pandey, Sobhesh Agarwalla, and Astha Agarwalla & Astha Agarwalla & Sebastian Morris, Ajay Pandey, Sobhesh Agarwalla, 2019. "Does GST in India Hurt Producing Regions? A New Estimate of the Tax Base Under GST of Select States," Working Papers 02-02, Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management, Ahmedabad.
• Hippolyte Balima & Anna Sokolova, 2020. "IMF Programs And Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis," HSE Working papers WP BRP 241/EC/2020, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
• World Bank, 2020. "Central Asia’s Horticulture Sector," World Bank Publications - Reports 33652, The World Bank Group.
• Murat, Marina, 2021. "Emigration and development. What are the links?," GLO Discussion Paper Series 747, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
• Fátima Cardoso & Manuel Coutinho Pereira & Nuno Alves, 2020. "Heterogeneous response of consumers to income shocks throughout a financial assistance program," Working Papers w202018, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.
• Aneesha Chitgupi, 2019. "Macroeconomic determinants of software services exports and impact on external stabilisation for India: An empirical analysis," Working Papers 432, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• Wang, Tianxi, 2021. "Government Bonds, Bank Liquidity and Non-Neutrality of Monetary Policy in the Steady," Economics Discussion Papers 29502, University of Essex, Department of Economics.
• Onome Christopher Edo & Anthony Okafor, PhD & Akhigbodemhe Emmanuel Justice, 2020. "Tax Policy and Foreign Direct Investment: A Regime Change Analysis," GATR Journals jfbr176, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.
• Mate Rosan & Krunoslav Zauder, 2020. "Which Loans do We Take? A Micro-Level Analysis of Croatian Households’ Debt Participation," Working Papers 61, The Croatian National Bank, Croatia.
• Jeff Larrimore & Mike Zabek, 2020. "Household Finances under COVID-19: Evidence from the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking," Consumer & Community Context 89150, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Jurgen Spaanderman, 2020. "De rol en toekomst van contant geld," Occasional Studies 1802, DNB.
• Jeremy Samer Srouji, 2020. "Digital Payments, the Cashless Economy, and Financial Inclusion in the United Arab Emirates: Why Is Everyone Still Transacting in Cash?," Post-Print hal-03015357, HAL.
• Askenazy, Philippe, 2020. "Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity," IZA Discussion Papers 13950, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Ankur Huria, 2019. "Facilitating Trade and Logistics for E-Commerce," World Bank Publications - Reports 33174, The World Bank Group.
• Jo Blanden & Sandra McNally & Gill Wyness, 2019. "Education and skills," CEP Election Analysis Papers 050, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Mengyi Sun & Jainabou Barry Danfa & Misha Teplitskiy, 2021. "Does double-blind peer-review reduce bias? Evidence from a top computer science conference," Papers 2101.02701, arXiv.org.
• Hyun Jin Jang & Kiseop Lee & Kyungsub Lee, 2020. "Systemic Risk in Market Microstructure of Crude Oil and Gasoline Futures Prices: A Hawkes Flocking Model Approach," Papers 2012.04181, arXiv.org.
• Alguacil Marí, María Teresa & Lo Turco, Alessia & Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada, 2020. "What is so special about robots and trade?," University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics 410, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.
• Joel Cariolle, 2020. "Digital spillovers and SMEs’ performance in Sub-Saharan Africa," Post-Print hal-03003914, HAL.
• Jean-François Carpantier, 2020. "Anything but gold. The golden constant revisited," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2020036, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
• David R. Agrawal. & Dirk Foremny & Clara Martinez-Toledano, 2020. "Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility," World Inequality Lab Working Papers halshs-03093674, HAL.
• Audrey Ugarte & Onofre Alves Simões, 2020. "Breaking Life Expectancy into Small Pieces," Working Papers REM 2020/0154, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Mr. Marshall B Reinsdorf, 2020. "COVID-19 and the CPI: Is Inflation Underestimated?," IMF Working Papers 2020/224, International Monetary Fund.
• , Aisdl, 2021. "The Vietnamese stock and bond markets in 2020," OSF Preprints rqenv, Center for Open Science.
• Mr. Jeffrey R. Franks & Bertrand Gruss & Mr. Carlos Mulas-Granados & Manasa Patnam & Mr. Sebastian Weber, 2020. "Exiting from Lockdowns: Early Evidence from Reopenings in Europe," IMF Working Papers 2020/218, International Monetary Fund.
• Badenes-Plá, Nuria & Blanco Palmero, Patricia & Gambau-Suelves, Borja & Navas Román, María & Villazán Pellejero, Noemí, 2020. "Joint Taxation in Spain and its Effects on Social Welfare: a Microsimulation Analysis," EUROMOD Working Papers EM23/20, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
• Walid Matar & Rami Shabaneh, 2021. "Can Oil Refiners Adjust to a Greater Supply of Shale Oil?," Discussion Papers ks--2020-dp27, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center.
• Böck, Maximilian & Feldkircher, Martin, 2020. "The impact of monetary policy on expectations along the yield curve," Department of Economics Working Paper Series 306, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
• Bandara, KBTUK & Jayasundara, JMSB & Naradda Gamage, Sisira Kumara & Ekanayake, EMS & Rajapackshe, PSK & Abeyrathne, GAKNJ & Prasanna, RPIR, 2020. "Entrepreneurial Marketing & Performance of Small & Medium Enterprises in Developed and Developing Economies: A Conceptual Exploration," MPRA Paper 104341, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Padmavathi N, 2019. "Technical efficiency of unorganised food processing industry in India: A stochastic frontier analysis," Working Papers 449, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• International Monetary Fund, 2019. "Singapore: Financial System Stability Assessment," IMF Staff Country Reports 2019/224, International Monetary Fund.
• Thierry Roncalli & Fatma Karray-Meziou & Franc{c}ois Pan & Margaux Regnault, 2021. "Liquidity Stress Testing in Asset Management -- Part 1. Modeling the Liability Liquidity Risk," Papers 2101.02110, arXiv.org.
• World Bank Group, 2019. "Insurance that Works," World Bank Publications - Reports 33181, The World Bank Group.
• Ongena, Steven & Pinoli, Sara & Rossi, Paola & Scopelliti, Alessandro, 2020. "Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations: the effects of minibond issuances," Working Paper Series 2508, European Central Bank.
• Calvi, Rossella & Penglase, Jacob & Tommasi, Denni & Wolf, Alexander, 2020. "The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families," IZA Discussion Papers 13948, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Masahiro Endoh, 2020. "Trade Effects on Wage Inequality through Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Japan," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series 2020-017, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University.
• Barbara J. Lipman & Ann Marie Wiersch, 2019. "Searching for Small Business Credit Online: What Prospective Borrowers Encounter on Fintech Lender Websites," Consumer & Community Context 89158, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Kapoor, Shreya & Deb Pal, Barun & Singhal, Aditi & Anantha, K. H., 2020. "Technology intensification and farmers’ welfare: A case study from Karnataka, a semi-arid state of India," IFPRI discussion papers 1982, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• Swati Dhingra & Thomas Sampson, 2019. "Brexit economics," CEP Election Analysis Papers 048, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
• Joscha Beckmann & Mariarosaria Comunale, 2020. "Exchange rate fluctuations and the financial channel in emerging economies," Bank of Lithuania Working Paper Series 83, Bank of Lithuania.
• Cyril Grunspan & Joris van der Hoeven, 2020. "Effective asymptotic analysis for finance," Post-Print hal-01573621, HAL.
• Liu, Meiping, 2020. "Sustainable development based on structural transformation in Southeast China," SocArXiv a7qgf, Center for Open Science.
• Hao Dong & Taisuke Otsu & Luke Taylor, 2019. "Estimation of Varying Coefficient Models with Measurement Error," STICERD - Econometrics Paper Series 607, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
• Tenisha J. Brown & PJ Tabit, 2020. "The Pandemic's Early Effects on Consumers and Communities," Consumer & Community Context 89149, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Kostopoulos, Dimitrios & Meyer, Steffen & Uhr, Charline, 2020. "Ambiguity and investor behavior," SAFE Working Paper Series 297, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
• Marco Castillo & John List & Ragan Petrie & Anya Samek, 2021. "Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment," Artefactual Field Experiments 00723, The Field Experiments Website.
• Arun Advani & Andy Summers, 2020. "Capital Gains and UK Inequality," Working Papers halshs-03022609, HAL.
• Carl Singleton & Alex Bryson & Peter Dolton & J. James Reade & Dominik Schreyer, 2021. "What Can We Learn About Economics from Sport during Covid-19?," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2021-01, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
• Christine Arriola & Sophie Guilloux-Nefussi & Seung-Hee Koh & Przemyslaw Kowalski & Elena Rusticelli & Frank van Tongeren, 2020. "Efficiency and risks in global value chains in the context of COVID-19," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1637, OECD Publishing.
• Wouter Bossu & Mr. Cory Hillier & Mr. Wolfgang Bergthaler, 2020. "Local Currency Bond Markets Law Reform: A Methodology for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies," IMF Working Papers 2020/258, International Monetary Fund.
• Tahsin Saadi Sedik & Rui Xu, 2020. "A Vicious Cycle: How Pandemics Lead to Economic Despair and Social Unrest," IMF Working Papers 2020/216, International Monetary Fund.
• Vijayalakshmi S & Krishna Raj, 2019. "Income and vehicular growth in India: A time series econometric analysis," Working Papers 439, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• Tatiyaporn SIRISAKDAKUL & Butsakorn KHORNJAMNONG, 2020. "Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning of Working-Age People," GATR Journals jfbr177, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.
• Tolulope T. Osinubi & Simplice A. Asongu, 2020. "Globalization and Female Economic Participation in MINT and BRICS countries," Research Africa Network Working Papers 20/058, Research Africa Network (RAN).
• Guilhem Lecouteux, 2021. "Who's Afraid of Incoherence? Behavioural Welfare Economics and the Sovereignty of the Neoclassical Consumer," GREDEG Working Papers 2021-01, Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France.
• International Monetary Fund, 2019. "Singapore: Financial Sector Assessment Program; Technical Note-Financial Stability Analysis and Stress Testing," IMF Staff Country Reports 2019/228, International Monetary Fund.
• Kosuke Suzuki & Manasit Choomsai Na Ayudhaya & Patrick Lenain, 2020. "Making Thailand’s services sector more competitive through international trade," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1642, OECD Publishing.
• Ms. Margaux MacDonald & Mr. Roberto Piazza & Johannes Eugster & Ms. Florence Jaumotte, 2020. "Are Bilateral Trade Balances Irrelevant?," IMF Working Papers 2020/210, International Monetary Fund.
• Cândida Ferreira, 2020. "Financial development and macroeconomic performance: a cointegration approach," Working Papers REM 2020/0155, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Mr. Fabian Lipinsky & Mirela S. Miescu, 2020. "Capital Gaps, Risk Dynamics, and the Macroeconomy," IMF Working Papers 2020/209, International Monetary Fund.
• Golubev, Artem (Голубев, Артем) & Rodionov, Aleksandr (Родионов, Александр) & Ryabov, Oleg (Рябов, Олег), 2020. "Analysis of the transformation of the Russian banking system," Published Papers szf112001, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
• Frederic Lambert & Mr. Andrea Pescatori & Mr. Frederik G Toscani, 2020. "Labor Market Informality and the Business Cycle," IMF Working Papers 2020/256, International Monetary Fund.
• Indrajit Bairagya & Rohit Mukerji, 2019. "Impact of non-cognitive skills on cognitive learning outcomes: A study of elementary education in India," Working Papers 452, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• Meenakshi Rajeev & Pranav Nagendran, 2019. "Should they avoid the middleman? An analysis of fish processing firms in India," Working Papers 445, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• Balazs Egert, 2020. "The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Taking Stock of the Results for OECD and Non-OECD Countries," CESifo Working Paper Series 8778, CESifo.
• Albacete, Nicolás & Fessler, Pirmin & Lindner, Peter, 2021. "Who’s asking? Interviewer effects on unit non-response in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey," Statistics Paper Series 39, European Central Bank.
• Olena Havrylchyk & Aref Mahdavi-Ardekani, 2020. "Real effects of lending-based crowdfunding platforms on the SMEs," Post-Print halshs-02994903, HAL.
• Jonathan Tuck & Shane Barratt & Stephen Boyd, 2021. "Portfolio Construction Using Stratified Models," Papers 2101.04113, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2021.
• Mr. Eugenio M Cerutti & Catherine Koch & Swapan-Kumar Pradhan, 2020. "Banking Across Borders: Are Chinese Banks Different?," IMF Working Papers 2020/249, International Monetary Fund.
• , Aisdl, 2020. "Corporate social responsibility and firm financial performance: A literature review," OSF Preprints aymk7, Center for Open Science.
• Theologos Dergiades & Panos K. Pouliasis, 2021. "Should Stock Returns Predictability be hooked on Long Horizon Regressions?," Discussion Paper Series 2021_03, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, revised Feb 2021.
• Patrick Blagrave & Weicheng Lian, 2020. "India’s Inflation Process Before and After Flexible Inflation Targeting," IMF Working Papers 2020/251, International Monetary Fund.
• Takahashi, Makoto & Watanabe, Toshiaki & Omori, Yasuhiro, 2021. "Forecasting Daily Volatility of Stock Price Index Using Daily Returns and Realized Volatility," Discussion paper series HIAS-E-104, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University.
• Garcés Díaz Daniel, 2020. "On the Drivers of Inflation in Different Monetary Regimes," Working Papers 2020-16, Banco de México.
• Montagna, Mattia & Torri, Gabriele & Covi, Giovanni, 2020. "On the origin of systemic risk," Working Paper Series 2502, European Central Bank.
• Mr. Tamim Bayoumi & Mr. Yunhui Zhao, 2020. "Incomplete Financial Markets and the Booming Housing Sector in China," IMF Working Papers 2020/265, International Monetary Fund.
• Darshini J S & K Gayithri, 2019. "Fiscal dependency of States in India," Working Papers 433, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
• Chun, Hyunbae & Joo, Hailey Hayeon & Kang, Jisoo & Lee, Yoonsoo, 2020. "Diffusion of E-Commerce and Retail Job Apocalypse: Evidence from Credit Card Data on Online Spending," CEI Working Paper Series 2020-7, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
• António Afonso & José Alves & João Tovar Jalles, 2021. "(Non-) Keynesian Effects of Fiscal Austerity: New Evidence from a large sample," Working Papers REM 2021/0158, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.
• Byström, Hans, 2021. "Credit Risk in a Pandemic," Working Papers 2021:1, Lund University, Department of Economics.
• Chikako Baba & Cristina Batog & Enrique Flores & Mr. Borja Gracia & Ms. Izabela Karpowicz & Piotr Kopyrski & Mr. James Roaf & Ms. Anna Shabunina & Ms. Xin Cindy Xu, 2020. "Fintech in Europe: Promises and Threats," IMF Working Papers 2020/241, International Monetary Fund.
• Yiping Huang & Ms. Longmei Zhang & Zhenhua Li & Han Qiu & Tao Sun & Xue Wang, 2020. "Fintech Credit Risk Assessment for SMEs: Evidence from China," IMF Working Papers 2020/193, International Monetary Fund.
• Gupta, Manavi & Kishore, Avinash, 2020. "Unemployment and household spending in rural and urban India: Evidence from panel data (2019)," IFPRI discussion papers 1978, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• Enste, Dominik & Wildner, Julia & Nafziger, Lucia, 2021. "Going green with behavioural economics: How to combine business and ethics," IW-Reports 1/2021, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) / German Economic Institute.