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Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations
(Universität Bern, 2024)We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar’s hyperinflation the costs are ... -
External Shocks versus Domestic Policies in Emerging Markets
(Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, 2023)Debt crises in emerging markets have been linked to large fiscal deficits, high inflation rates, and large devaluations. This article studies a sovereign default model with domestic fiscal and monetary policies to understand ... -
El impacto de los programas de crédito para la reactivación del tejido productivo y el empleo tras la pandemia: el caso de Argentina
(Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, 2023)This technical paper seeks to narrow the knowledge gap concerning the impacts of financing and provision of credit to accelerate recovery and adjustments in the wake of a crisis. Due to the lack of data in developing ... -
Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy
(The University of Chicago Press, 2023)How should countries cooperate in setting fiscal and trade policies when government expenditures must be financed with distorting taxes? We show that even if countries cannot make explicit transfers to each other, every ... -
Prevalence of Daily Smoking and Initiation in Latin America
(Health Policy Center, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago, 2023)There is abundant evidence documenting the negative consequences of smoking. Over the last decades, public smoking bans, taxation, and public health tobacco control campaigns induced a decline in smoking prevalence ... -
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina. New estimates using changes in the schedule of transfers
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2022)Unemployment insurance transfers should balance the provision of consumption to the unemployed with the disincentive effects on the search behavior. Developing countries face the additional challenge of informality. Workers ... -
Variable elimination, graph reduction and the efficient g-formula
(BiometrikaOxford University Press, 2023)We study efficient estimation of an interventional mean associated with a point exposure treatment under a causal graphical model represented by a directed acyclic graph without hidden variables. Under such a model, a ...