Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Council on Economic Policies, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization are organizing a workshop on 25-26 April, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, on policy relevant aspects of the links between trade in services and inclusive growth. Papers presented in the workshop will be considered for an expedited review process for a Review of International Economics special issue to be published in 2019.
Topics
We particularly encourage the submission of unpublished empirical work that uses new datasets or exploits policy experiments in a novel and informative way. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Program
The workshop will start with a welcome dinner on April 24. April 25 will be devoted to paper presentations as well as a policy debate with trade negotiators and other practitioners in the evening. Presentations will continue in the morning of April 26, followed by an exploration of new directions for research in the afternoon. The workshop will take place at the WTO Secretariat.
Submissions
Papers should be submitted by February 15, 2018 to trade@cepweb.org. Successful submissions will be notified by beginning of March 2018.
Program Committee
The Council on Economic Policies, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization are organizing a workshop on 25-26 April, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, on policy relevant aspects of the links between trade in services and inclusive growth. Papers presented in the workshop will be considered for an expedited review process for a Review of International Economics special issue to be published in 2019.
Topics
We particularly encourage the submission of unpublished empirical work that uses new datasets or exploits policy experiments in a novel and informative way.
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atLabels: Inclusive Growth
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
A new IMF report says that: “By 2100, climate change could impact more than 12 percent of the Vietnamese population and reduce growth by 10 percent. The Vietnamese government considers the response to climate change a vital issue and has implemented environmental policies to better cope with these risks.”
“But the country—which has relied heavily on fossil fuels and overexploitation of natural resources—needs to further adapt its economy toward a more sustainable and ecofriendly growth model.”
“Policies that can better prepare Vietnam for the future impact of climate change should focus on:
A new IMF report says that: “By 2100, climate change could impact more than 12 percent of the Vietnamese population and reduce growth by 10 percent. The Vietnamese government considers the response to climate change a vital issue and has implemented environmental policies to better cope with these risks.”
“But the country—which has relied heavily on fossil fuels and overexploitation of natural resources—needs to further adapt its economy toward a more sustainable and ecofriendly growth model.”
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atLabels: Energy & Climate Change
Saturday, January 6, 2018
From a new IMF working paper by Jonathan Ostry, Andrew Berg, and Siddharth Kothari:
“Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross-country data covering advanced, emerging-market, and low-income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed evidence of a growth-equity tradeoff for some important reforms. Financial and capital account liberalization seem to increase both growth and inequality, as do some measures of liberalization of current account transactions. Reforms aimed at strengthening the impartiality of and adherence to the legal system seem to entail no growth-equity tradeoff—such reforms are good for growth and do not worsen inequality. The results for our index of network reforms as well as our measure of the decentralization of collective labor bargaining are the weakest and least robust, potentially due to data limitations. We also ask: If some structural reforms worsen inequality, to what degree does this offset the growth gains from the reforms themselves? While higher inequality does dampen the growth benefits, the net effect on growth remains positive for most reform indicators.”
From a new IMF working paper by Jonathan Ostry, Andrew Berg, and Siddharth Kothari:
“Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross-country data covering advanced, emerging-market, and low-income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed evidence of a growth-equity tradeoff for some important reforms. Financial and capital account liberalization seem to increase both growth and inequality,
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atLabels: Inclusive Growth
Friday, January 5, 2018
On international house pricing:
On household finance:
On mortgages:
On behavioral real estate:
On affordable housing:
On property taxes:
On agency and bargaining:
On homeownership:
Photo by Aliis Sinisalu
On international house pricing:
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atLabels: Global Housing Watch
Thursday, January 4, 2018
A new paper concludes that “Okun’s law is applicable in Russia.” “The economic connection between economic growth rates and changes in unemployment proposed by Okun (1962) over half a century ago remains one of the main tools for analyzing labor markets.”
“Gabrisch and Buscher (2006) proposed that the formation of the labor market mechanism in the formerly planned economies could be considered as completed once Okun’s law became persistently applicable there.”
“The general conclusion is that Okun’s law is applicable in Russia both in the short and long run. A comparison (Akhundova et al., 2005) has shown that transition processes in the Russian labor market were completed during the first half of the 2000s (i.e., the shaping of the labor market mechanisms took slightly more than 10 years).”
The article is available from the Russian Journal of Economics.
A new paper concludes that “Okun’s law is applicable in Russia.” “The economic connection between economic growth rates and changes in unemployment proposed by Okun (1962) over half a century ago remains one of the main tools for analyzing labor markets.”
“Gabrisch and Buscher (2006) proposed that the formation of the labor market mechanism in the formerly planned economies could be considered as completed once Okun’s law became persistently applicable there.”
“The general conclusion is that Okun’s law is applicable in Russia both in the short and long run.
Posted by 10:42 AM
atLabels: Inclusive Growth
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