Documents et rapports
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The State of Economics, the State of the World (anglais)
We live in troubled times. Over the past decade, the world economy has been wracked by financial crises, sovereign debt problems, backlash from political conflict and migrant crises, and, recently, a rise...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 168012 Date du document: 25 novembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Rosenblatt,David,Sepulveda,Claudia Paz
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The state of economics, the state of the world (anglais)
This paper, based on the introductory remarks made at the two-day conference on "The State of the Economy, the State of the World," is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7816 Date du document: 12 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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The globe and the circle : geometry and economic geography as tribute to Thales and Nash (anglais)
The geometry of the line and the circle has been used in economics for a long time to understand location choice and political positioning in democratic polity. This paper draws on some elementary ideas...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7819 Date du document: 12 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Nash on a rotary : two theorems with implications for electoral politics (anglais)
The paper provides a complete characterization of Nash equilibria for games in which n candidates choose a strategy in the form of a platform, each from a circle of feasible platforms, with the aim of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7701 Date du document: 8 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Mitra,Tapan
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Markets and manipulation : time for a paradigm shift ? (anglais)
There is a growing appreciation in economics that people have emotional vulnerabilities, commitments to social norms, and systematic irrationalities, which impact their decision making and choice in the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7653 Date du document: 27 avril 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Globalization of labor markets and the growth prospects of nations (anglais)
The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations. This paper contends that there is however a structural shift beneath the global economy...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7590 Date du document: 2 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Discrimination as a coordination device : markets and the emergence of identity (anglais)
The paper develops a new theory of group discrimination in which the discrimination in favor or against certain groups is simply a coordination device. It is built on the axiom that a person who gets to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7490 Date du document: 13 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (anglais)
This volume contains the Papers and Proceedings of the 26th Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) held on June 15–16, 2015, in Mexico City. The theme of the conference was "Productivity...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 140495 Date du document: 16 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Foster,Andrew D.
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The republic of beliefs : a new approach to ‘law and economics’ (anglais)
The discipline of law and economics deals with wide-ranging topics, from competition and environmental policy to crime control, and has been instrumental in determining how an economy performs. Yet its...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7259 Date du document: 7 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Development goals in an era of demographic change (anglais)
Chapter one examines the progress made on sustainable poverty reduction and shared prosperity, as well as the policies that are needed to make further progress. With 2015 being a watershed year for global...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 100530 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schellekens,Philip,Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Gill,Indermit S.,Kose,Ayhan,Ahmed, S. Amer,Chandra,Vandana,Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose,Dennis,Allen Curtis K.,Eigen-Zucchi,Christian,Gragnolati,Michele,Lofgren,Hans Lennart,Maliszew, Maryla,Quillin,Bryce Ramsey,Simler,Kenneth,Felsenthal,Mark Edgar,Littler,Graeme B.,Ross Larson,Bruce Clifford,Vorisek,Dana Lauren,Nielsen,Lynge,Bayoumi, Tam,Duttagupta, Rupa,Nolan, Sean
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From tapering to tightening : the impact of the fed's exit on India (anglais)
The "tapering talk" starting on May 22, 2013, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke first spoke of the possibility of the U.S. central bank reducing its security purchases, had a sharp negative impact...
Numéro du rapport: WPS7071 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Eichengreen,Barry J.,Gupta,Poonam - DECOS
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Nash equilibria of games when players' preferences are quasi-transitive (anglais)
Much of game theory is founded on the assumption that individual players are endowed with preferences that can be represented by a real-valued utility function. However, in reality human preferences are...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7037 Date du document: 1 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Pattanaik,Prasanta Kumar
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Ponzis : the science and mystique of a class of financial frauds (anglais)
Ponzis are among the most ubiquitous and least understood phenomena of economic life. They acquired a certain salience with the global financial crisis of 2008 and the crash of Bernie Madoff’s celebrated...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6967 Date du document: 1 juillet 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Asymmetric punishment as an instrument of corruption control (anglais)
The control of bribery is a policy objective in many developing countries. It has been argued that asymmetric punishments could reduce bribery by incentivizing whistle-blowing. This paper investigates...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6933 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Karna,Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Cordella,Tito
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Fiscal policy as an instrument of investment and growth (anglais)
This paper investigates the role of fiscal guarantees in promoting infrastructure investment. Infrastructure is a critical driver of economic growth, but infrastructure entails significant up-front costs...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6850 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Too small to regulate (anglais)
The paper argues that to achieve compliance of firms with regulations such as product quality or environmental or health standards it is better to have industries with a few large corporations than numerous...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6860 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Dixit,Avinash K.
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The method of randomization and the role of reasoned intuition (anglais)
The method of randomization has been a major driver in the recent rise to prominence of empirical development economics. It has helped uncover patterns and facts that had earlier escaped attention. But...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6722 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Capital for the future : saving and investment in an interdependent world (chinois)
The aim of this edition of global development horizons is to build scenarios for the global economy over, roughly, the next two decades, with special focus given to saving and investment. Developing countries'...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 77743 Date du document: 5 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Bussolo,Maurizio,Dailami,Mansoor,Timmer,Hans
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Shared prosperity and the mitigation of poverty : in practice and in precept (anglais)
The World Bank Group recently adopted two overarching goals -- the end of extreme, chronic poverty in the world by 2030 and the promotion of shared prosperity in every society. The paper examines the normative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6700 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra
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Sovereign ratings in the post-crisis world : an analysis of actual, shadow and relative risk ratings (anglais)
This paper analyzes the evolution of sovereign credit ratings in the wake of the global financial crisis by studying changes in actual, shadow, and relative ratings between 2008 and 2012. For countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6641 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,De,Supriyo,Ratha,Dilip Kumar,Timmer,Hans