The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

The Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics and the Social Sciences is a series of virtual and in-person panels on the topics of reproducibility, replicability, and transparency in the social sciences. The purpose of scientific publishing is the dissemination of robust...

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...

RIDGE invites authors to submit papers to the Economic History workshop on all subjects of economic history provided they are particularly concerned with developing regions.

Die Jahrestagung der Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte widmet sich diesmal spezifischen Fragen urbaner Arbeitsverhältnisse der Frühen Neuzeit. Gegenstand der Tagung sind fragmentierte, statusbezogene Arbeitsbeziehungen der Vormoderne. Sie standen oft im Spannungsfeld verschiedener normativer...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

The 2022 Global Tax Symposium will address topics crossing the spheres of New Frontiers of International Taxation. We call for papers that may address principled, theoretical or pragmatic issues connected to tax and development. The select themes covered by this symposium are - Design and...

We build a tractable two-agent New Keynesian (TANK) model to jointly study four types of policy: conventional monetary policy, quantitative easing (QE), government expenditures, and lump-sum transfers. We find QE, transfers, and government spending can have the same effects on the aggregate...

Le panel présentera une discussion sur l’économie et l’éthique de la distribution des vaccins.

SAIIA invites you to the launch of futures-orientated policy research on the emerging digital geopolitical landscape in southern Africa and Africa at large. The policy insight report unpacks digital governance approaches across the United States, China, and Europe, and their implications for...