Our paper, Bank Credit and Economic Growth: A Dynamic Threshold Panel Model for ASEAN Countries, recently crossed the symbolic threshold of 1,000 SSRN downloads. The screenshot I saved…
On 29 July 2026, Stata announced a new StataNow update introducing xtswitchdid, a built-in command for difference in differences with switching treatments. The official Stata Blog announcement highlights…
A cross-country bubble plot can communicate several dimensions at once: the position of each country, the relative size of its economy, and the region to which it belongs.…
I am delighted to announce that I will be in Belgrade during the next week for the 21st IEA World Congress on Contrasting World Visions: Globalism v. Nationalism,…
I will have the great honor to make a “hands-on” seminar for the Central Bank of Suriname on February 10, 2026 (11:00 Suriname Time) on our joint research,…
After a map for Asia, the present example focuses on the joint distribution of economic growth and state capacity over the period 1960 to 2024. The result provides…
The present example focuses on the joint distribution of economic growth and state capacity over the period 1960 to 2024. The dataset contains country-level averages for the East…
NEW WORKING PAPER: How will the widespread deployment of automation technologies such as industrial robots and artificial intelligence (AI) affect long-run economic performance? To address this question, we…
Truly honored to have written a joint research with Joshua Aizenman titled Openness and Comparative Advantages: Asian Successes and Failures. The paper will be presented by Joshua Aizenman…
NEW WORKING PAPER: We identify the negative influence of nationalist sentiment on economic growth. Our cross-country evidence confirms the growth-depressing effect of nationalism, projecting that economic growth has…
NEW PUBLICATION: We revisit the relationship between fiscal tightening and economic growth within the Sub-Saharan African context, employing a local projection framework augmented with instruments. In contrast to…
NEW WORKING PAPER: We revisit the relationship between fiscal tightening and economic growth within the Sub-Saharan African context, employing a local projection framework augmented with instruments. In contrast…
NEW WORKING PAPER: This study investigates the impact of political polarization on output growth, capital formation, and foreign direct investment (FDI) across 139 economies via a panel Local…
NEW WORKING PAPER: This paper investigates nonlinearities in the inflation-growth-uncertainty relationship in Chinese provinces over the period 1992 to 2017 using nonlinear models and dynamic panel threshold models.…
Let me show you how to add a third dimension on a bivariate maps in this second update of my blog on drawing bivariate maps for the Chinese…
Asjad Naqvi released a new version of the bimap package, let me provide a small update of the following blog. The main difference will be that I will…
Last Friday, I had the chance to welcome Joshua Aizenman for a research seminar at the University of Strasbourg: https://www.beta-economics.fr/. We had an interesting discussion about this provocative…
Asjad Naqvi released a new version of the bimap package, let me show a small example of how this package works with some regional data for China. I…
Last Friday, we organized the Fifth ERMEES workshop with Amélie Barbier-Gauchard and Pierre Lesuisse, together will all the ERMEES team. It was very pleasant to see old friends…
Cette étude est une tentative de mise en perspective des enjeux des accords de libre-échange pour l’Union européenne (UE). Dans une première partie sont utilisés les acquis de la littérature…
NEW PUBLICATION: The answer is yes. When the credit-to-GDP ratio is above 96.5%, the effect of a further development of bank credit on the economic growth is not…
NEW WORKING PAPER: While it is widely recognized that the development of a sound financial system may contribute to foster economic growth, the relation between economic growth and…
It was very interesting to reread this special issue of Le Point published last summer. This issue displays a journalistic article on one page and an abstract of…
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