"This paper evaluates the performances of three of the most prominent multisectoral static applied general equilibrium models used to predict the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement. These models drastically underestimated the impact of NAFTA on North American trade. Furthermore,...

Fiscal authorities impose fiscal rules to achieve goals such as debt sustainability, avoiding fiscal procyclicality, and improving macroeconomic stability. Assessing the effectiveness of fiscal rules requires the construction of a counterfactual scenario depicting the situation in the absence of...

Using a daily data base covering 158 countries during January to August 2020, this paper assesses the effectiveness of coronavirus containment measures in reducing contagion and death rates. To estimate the effectiveness of different containment measures, the paper uses a methodological approach...