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60: Optimal Bailouts in Banking and Sovereign Crises

Sewon Hur, César Sosa-Padilla and Zeynep Yom

59: Tax Withholding and the Size of Government

Sutirtha Bagchi and Libor Dušek

58: The Effects of Introducing Withholding on Tax Compliance: Evidence from Pennsylvania’s Local Earned Income Tax

Sutirtha Bagchi

57: Wealth Inequality and Democracy

Sutirtha Bagchi and Matthew Fagerstrom

56: Decision-Making in the United Nations General Assembly: A Comprehensive Database of Resolutions, Decisions, and Votes

Joshua Fjelstul, Simon Hug and Christopher Kilby

55: Monetary Growth and Financial Sector Wages

Michael Curran, Matthew Fagerstrom and Ryan Zalla

54: Withholding Matters: The Impact of Act 32 on Compliance with the Earned Income Tax

Sutirtha Bagchi

53: A Cautionary Tale of Fat Tails

Chetan Dave, Scott Dressler and Samreen Malik

52: Can Volatility Solve the Naive Portfolio Puzzle?

Michael Curran, Patrick O'Sullivan and Ryan Zalla

51: Happy at Work - Possible at Any Age?

Cheryl Carleton and Mary Kelly

50: Third-party Reporting and Tax Collections: Evidence from the Introduction of Withholding of the State Personal Income Tax

Sutirtha Bagchi and Libor Dusek

49: Optimal Bailouts in Banking and Sovereign Crises

Sewon Hur, César Sosa-Padilla and Zeynep Yom

48: Public-Sector Pension Plans and the Discount Rate Assumption: The Role of Political Incentives

Sutirtha Bagchi and James Naughton

47: R&D, Market Power and the Cyclicality of Employment

Uluc Aysun, Melanie Guldi, Adam Honig and Zeynep Yom

46: The World Bank COVID-19 Response: Politics as Usual?

Christopher Kilby and Carolyn McWhirter

45: Accounting for data uncertainty: Biases in web-scraped Chinese aid data

Christopher Kilby

44: Bank Lending, Monetary Policy Transmission, and Interest on Excess Reserves: a FAVAR Analysis

Chetan Dave, Scott Dressler and Lei Zhang

43: R&D, innovation spillover and business cycles

Uluc Aysun and Zeynep Yom

42: Does the World Bank Move Markets?

Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby

41: Monetary Growth and Financial Sector Wages

Michael Curran and Matthew Fagerstrom

40: Preference Heterogeneity, Inflation, and Welfare

Michael Curran and Scott Dressler

39: What is the Impact of Monetary Policy on Wealth Inequality?

Sutirtha Bagchi, Michael Curran and Matthew Fagerstrom

38: The Effects of Political Competition on the Generosity of Public-Sector Pension Plans

Sutirtha Bagchi

37: Interest rates, R&D investment and the distortionary effects of R&D incentives

Uluc Aysun and Zeynep Yom

36: The Effects of Political Competition on the Funding of Public-Sector Pension Plans (Revised June 2020)

Sutirtha Bagchi

35: Interest Rate Volatility And Macroeconomic Dynamics: A Cross-Country Analysis

Michael Curran and Adnan Velic

34: Does the Strength of Incentives Matter for Elected Officials? A Look at Tax Collectors

Sutirtha Bagchi

33: A Tale of Two Cities: An Examination of Medallion Prices in New York and Chicago

Sutirtha Bagchi

32: Alternative Work Arrangements and Job Satisfaction

Cheryl Carleton and Mary Kelly

31: Real Exchange Rate Persistence and Country Characteristics

Michael Curran and Adnan Velic

30: The Rise of Supplemental Lending at the World Bank

Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby

29: Income Inequality and Sovereign Default

Kiyoung Jeon and Zeynep Yom

28: Do domestic politics shape U.S. influence in the World Bank?

Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby

27: The credit channel is alive at the zero lower bound but how does it operate? Firm level evidence on the asymmetric effects of U.S. monetary policy

Uluc Aysun, Kiyoung Jeon and Zeynep Yom

26: What Influences World Bank Project Evaluations?

Christopher Kilby and Katharina Michaelowa

25: With a Little Help from My Friends: Global Electioneering and World Bank Lending

Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby

24: Excess Reserves and Economic Activity

Scott Dressler and Erasmus Kersting

23: Aid and Democracy Redux

Erasmus Kersting and Christopher Kilby

22: Informal influence in the Inter-American Development Bank

Elizabeth Bland and Christopher Kilby

21: To Invest or Insure? A Comment on Wright (2008)

Christopher Kilby and Christopher Kline

20: Assessing the contribution of donor agencies to aid effectiveness: The impact of World Bank preparation on project outcomes

Christopher Kilby

19: Monetary Transmission and the Search for Liquidity

Victor Li

18: Economies of Scale in Banking, Confidence Shocks, and Business Cycles

Scott Dressler and Erasmus Kersting

17: International Organization of Production with Heterogeneous Firms

Erasmus Kersting

16: A Long-Run, Short-Run and Politico-Economic Analysis of the Welfare Costs of Inflation

Scott Dressler

15: The Impact of Globalization on Women: Testing Vandana Shiva’s Critique of Development

Christopher Kilby and Sally Scholz

14: The Political Economy of Project Preparation: An Empirical Analysis of World Bank Projects

Christopher Kilby

13: Informal influence in the Asian Development Bank

Christopher Kilby

12: The Effect of Buying versus Leasing on Entry Deterrence

Wen Mao and Peter Zaleski

11: Start-Ups and External Equity: The Role of Entrepreneurial Experience

Peter Zaleski

10: What Determines the Size of Aid Projects?

Christopher Kilby

9: An empirical assessment of informal influence in the World Bank

Christopher Kilby

8: Donor influence in international financial institutions: Deciphering what alignment measures measure

Christopher Kilby

7: Credit Mismatch and Breakdown

Zsolt Becsi, Victor Li and Ping Wang

6: Decentralized Exchange and Factor Payments: A Multiple-Matching Approach

Derek Laing, Victor Li and Ping Wang

5: The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?

Christopher Kilby and Axel Dreher

4: The Bank Lending Channel: a FAVAR Analysis

Chetan Dave, Scott Dressler and Lei Zhang

3: Testing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Competition on Cable Television Rates

Mary Kelly and John Ying

2: Money Holdings, Inflation, and Welfare in a Competitive Market

Scott Dressler

1: Changing Aid Regimes? U.S. Foreign Aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Robert Fleck and Christopher Kilby