The COVID-19 crisis is both an enormous challenge and a shock that has prompted many to rethink the status quo. The socio-political effects of the pandemic go far beyond the economy and health care system, touching on many aspects of people's lives and societies' communal fabric, from jobs to...

The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector. The study finds that the size of the banking sector and the presence of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) are positively associated with a stronger implementation...

This paper empirically analyses the motives underlying progress in implementing multilateral tax transparency standards. The results point to the protection of domestic special interests as a potential motive behind slower and less rigorous implementation. In particular, jurisdictions with a...

This paper compares the results of an experiment conducted both in the laboratory and online with participants recruited from the same subject pool using the Trustlab platform. This platform has been used to obtain incentivized and internationally comparable behavioral economics measures of...

Depuis longtemps ce discours domine les media : les inégalités, à l'intérieur des pays comme entre les pays, ne cessent de croître. Il est tenu par beaucoup de journalistes, de militants antimondialistes, d'économistes et d'organisations internationales et il s'appuie sur une réalité :...

Nos simulations du document P25 sur l'évolution utilisées de l'inégalité mondiale de 1992 à 2030 reposent sur l'hypothèse que les distributions à l'intérieur des pays sont parfaitement stables depuis 1992. Nous avions repris pour toutes les années les distributions internes de 1992...

This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period...

This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...

In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States). We build and estimate a dynamic stochastic search-matching model with...