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202608: Minimum Wages in the Philippines: Stylized Facts, Identification and Estimation Challenges, and a Path Forward

Adolfo Jose Montesa, Vincent Ramos, Judy Padillon, Carlos Harry De Taza, Edgar Suguitan and Rexian Irlandez

202607: The Paradox of Arrival: Philippine Upper-Middle Income Reclassification and the Unfinished Structural Transformation

E. Annette Balaoing-Pelkmans

202606: Pax Silica and the Philippine Industrial Upgrading Challenge: A Tatak Pinoy Strategy Perspective

E. Annette Balaoing-Pelkmans

202605: Financing the Philippines’ Low Carbon Transition: Status and Prospects

Toby Monsod

202604: Obeying in advance: Duterte’s election and the onset of the Philippine drug war

Jan Carlo Punongbayan

202603: Oil price pass-through in the Philippines: decomposing fuel and non-fuel inflation

Jan Carlo Punongbayan

202602: Profiling Platform Workers in the Philippines: Evidence from the Jobs and Skills Survey

Karl Robert Jandoc, Arturo Jr. Martinez, Joseph Albert Niño Bulan, Rhea Molato and Aileen Guyos

202601: Childhood Nutrition and Labor Market Outcomes: A Sequential Mediation Analysis

Karl Robert Jandoc

202509: Early Retirement of Coal Power Plants through Voluntary Carbon Credits? The case of ACEN in the Philippines

Christoff Scherrer

202507: Spanish commercial policy and the Philippines: an integrated perspective

Emmanuel de Dios

202506: Survival strategies and the robustness and resilience of exporters amidst wild card COVID-19 shocks

Adrian Mendoza

202504: Competition Considerations in Change Ownership Reforms for Electric Cooperatives

Carlos Vega, Jestoni Olivo, Antonio Miguel Ventura and Eirene Gillian Reyes

202503: Is there a grade penalty for high school track and college degree mismatches? Evidence from the University of the Philippines

Jan Carlo Punongbayan and Jefferson Arapoc

202502: Promoting Competition and Regulatory Reforms in Franchising Electricity Distribution

Dante Canlas and Karl Robert Jandoc

202501: Navigating turbulent waters: The Philippines’ global value chains experience amid trade wars

Adrian Mendoza

202406: How well has the National Climate Budget supported the 2011-2028 National Climate Change Action Plan? (Or, why a Task Force El Nino?)

Toby Monsod

202404: Decomposing Philippine inflation into its supply and demand components (2001-2023)

Jc Punongbayan

202403: OFW: Migration and Development

Florian Alburo

202402: Water Rights Pricing in the Philippines: Issues, Challenges and Way Forward

Maria Francesca Mercedes Grabador

202401b: [Rejoinder]: How to change a constitution by hand-waving (Or, the unbearable lightness of evidence in support of lifting foreign ownership restrictions)

Toby Monsod, Aleli Kraft, Cielo Magno, Jan Carlo Punongbayan, Orville Jose Solon, Elizabeth Tan, Agustin Arcenas, Florian Alburo and Emmanuel de Dios

202401: How to change a constitution by hand-waving (Or, the unbearable lightness of evidence in support of lifting foreign ownership restrictions)

Toby Monsod, Aleli Kraft, Cielo Magno, Jan Carlo Punongbayan, Orville Jose Solon, Elizabeth Tan, Agustin Arcenas, Florian Alburo and Emmanuel de Dios

202302: Maharlika Investment Fund: Still Beyond Repair

Ma. Joy Abrenica, Luzeta Adorna, Patricia Coseteng, Emmanuel de Dios, Marian de los Angeles, Noel Del Castillo, Benjamin Endriga, Laarni Escresa, Jonna Estudillo, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista, Aleli Kraft, Alice Lee, Adrian Mendoza, Ernesto Pernia, Jan Carlo Punongbayan, Renato Jr. Reside, Anthony Sabarillo, Orville Jose Solon, Gerard Suanes, Elizabeth Tan and Mariel Jances Nhayin Yamashita

202301: Public-Private Partnership: Physical, Social, and Human Infrastructure in the Philippines

Ernesto Pernia and Marianne Sales

202204: The National Climate Budget and the First Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement: To what degree are they aligned?

Toby Monsod

202203: Digital Services Taxes: Multilateral and Unilateral Efforts and an Overview of Recent Economic Models

Renato Jr. Reside

202202: Real Options: A Review of Select Theories and Applications

Renato Jr. Reside

202201: The economy fifty years since martial law: changing landscapes, unchanged views

Emmanuel de Dios

202108: Growth During the Time of Covid19

Renato Reside, Jr.

202107: Martial law and the Philippine economy

Emmanuel de Dios, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista and Jan Carlo Punongbayan

202106: Virtues and institutions in Smith: a reconstruction

Emmanuel de Dios

202105: Accelerating Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation: Strengthening the Philippines’ Contribution to Limit Global Warming and Cope with its Impacts

Toby Melissa Monsod, Sara Jane Ahmed and Golda Hilario

202104: In whom we trust more? Heterogeneous effects of government assistance on trust in local officials in the Philippines

Joseph Capuno

202103: Dominance and divergence: Ethnic groups and preferences for redistribution in Southeast Asia

Joseph Capuno

202102: Don’t let a "good" crisis go to waste: One-upmanship in local responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

Julian Thomas Alvarez, Jahm Mae Guinto and Joseph Capuno

202101: A Call to Arms to Fight Mediocre Education

Edita Tan

202013: Health is Economy: Some Lessons from COVID-19

Ernesto Pernia

202012: Decentralized Infrastructure Development in the Philippines: Constraints, Governance, and Regulation in Water

Dante Canlas and Margarita Debuque-Gonzales

202011: What Covid-19 Hath Wrought and Debt Exit Options: A Note on Deficit Financing and Public Debt Management

Dante Canlas

202010: COVID-19 incidence and the timing of quarantine measures and travel restrictions: A cross-country analysis

Marjorie Pajaron

202009: Is There Economic Convergence in Asia?

Dante Canlas

202008: Distance between occupations in the task complexity space

Ian Nicole Generalao

202007: Vulnerable to the Virus: Globally-Oriented Manufacturing Firms at Risk From the Spread of COVID-19

Stella Luz Quimbo, Ct Latinazo and Jw Peabody

202006: A Sectoral View of Lifting the Lockdown and the Use of Sample-based Random Testing

Orville Jose Solon, Toby Monsod, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista, Emmanuel de Dios, Joseph Capuno, Renato Reside, Ma. Joy Abrenica, Agustin Arcenas, Sarah Lynne Daway-Ducanes, Ma. Christina Epetia, Laarni Escresa, Karl Robert Jandoc, Cielo Magno and Carlo Irwin Panelo

202005: Trade in the Time of Corona: Broken Chains and Mended Barriers

Adrian Mendoza

202004: Surviving the Lockdown and Beyond

Toby Monsod, Orville Jose Solon, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista, Emmanuel de Dios, Joseph Capuno, Ma. Joy Abrenica, Agustin Arcenas, Ma. Christina Epetia, Laarni Escresa, Karl Robert Jandoc, Aleli Kraft, Cielo Magno and Renato Reside

202003: New vs. Reelected Mayor: Who Is More Responsive to Disasters?

Mel Lorenzo Accad

202002: A Philippine Social Protection and Economic Recovery Plan

Alfredo Paloyo, Cielo Magno, Karl Robert Jandoc, Laarni Escresa, Ma. Christina Epetia, Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista and Emmanuel de Dios

202001: Vulnerable to the Virus: Globally-Oriented Manufacturing Firms at Risk From the Spread of COVID-19

Karl Robert Jandoc, Adrian Mendoza and Stella Luz Quimbo

201904: Mapping tasks to occupations using Philippine data

Ian Nicole Generalao

201903: Case Studies on the Water Use of Large Scale Mining in the Philippines

C Magno and J Morillo