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Pablo Munoz et Mounu Prem
n° 22-131, février 2022
Governments face many constraints in attracting talented managers to the public sector, where high-powered incentives are often absent. In this paper, we study how a civil service reform in Chile changed the effectiveness of a vital group of public sector managers, school principals. We measure...
n° 22-1303, février 2022
Pham Hoang Uyen, Vo Thi Le Uyen, Pham Van Chung, Stéphane Cezera et Manh-Hung Nguyen
n° 22-1304, février 2022
Purpose of the paper: This study aims to consider the Covid impact on stock – price volatility of different industry groups in Vietnam by using the M-GARCH model.
Mounu Prem, Miguel E. Purroy et Juan F. Vargas
n° 22-132, février 2022
Anti-personnel landmines are one of the main causes of civilian victimization in conflict-affected areas and a significant obstacle for post-war reconstruction. Demining campaigns are therefore a promising policy instrument to promote long-term development. We argue that the economic and social...
Felipe Gonzalez, Luis R. Martinez, Pablo Muñoz et Mounu Prem
n° 22-134, février 2022
We provide new evidence on the causal eect of education on health. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in access to college experienced by individuals reaching college age shortly after the 1973 military coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in enrollment for the aected...
Lukas Dargel et Christine Thomas-Agnan
n° 22-1312, février 2022
In the framework of spatial econometric interaction models for origin-destination flows, we develop an estimation method for the case when the list of origins may be distinct from the list of destinations, and when the origin-destination matrix may be sparse. The proposed model resembles a weighted...
n° 22-1305, février 2022
Cécile Aubert et Huihui Ding
n° 22-1308, février 2022
A reelection-seeking politician makes a policy decision that can reveal her private information on whether her political orientation and capabilities will be a good fit to future circumstances. We study how she may choose inappropriate policies to hide her information, even in the absence of...
Radia Bacha et Farid Gasmi
n° 22-1309, février 2022
Digital transformation engendered by ICT advances, most notably broadband, pertains to many sectors that are known to drive economic development. This paper seeks to highlight market structure, institutional, and socio-economic factors that influence broadband adoption in Algeria. We apply to a...
Jérôme Bolte, Tam Le et Edouard Pauwels
n° 22-1310, février 2022
Risk minimization for nonsmooth nonconvex problems naturally leads to firstorder sampling or, by an abuse of terminology, to stochastic subgradient descent. We establish the convergence of this method in the path-differentiable case, and describe more precise results under additional geometric...
