Working papers share researchers’ findings from work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues related to Europe and Central Asia countries
2023
Who Suffers the Most from the Cost-of-Living Crisis?
Michael Lokshin, Zurab Sajaia & Iván Torre
The importance of financial education for the effective use of formal financial services (published in Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing)
Saniya Ansar, Leora Klapper & Dorothe Singer
Toward Environmentally Sustainable Public Institutions: The Green Government IT Index
Michael Lokshin & Eduardo Widmar
The links between COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and non-pharmaceutical interventions (published in Social Science & Medicine)
Maurizio Bussolo, Nayantara Sarma & Iván Torre
Competition and Firm Recovery Post-COVID-19 (published in Small Business Economics)
Miriam Bruhn, Asli Demirguc-Kunt & Dorothe Singer
Human Capital and Climate Change
Noam Angrist, Kevin Winseck, Harry Anthony Patrinos & Joshua Graff Zivin
2022
Electoral Cycles and Public Spending during the Pandemic
Michael Lokshin, Aylén Rodriguez-Ferrari & Iván Torre
Explaining the Evolution of Job Tenure in Europe, 1995–2020
Maurizio Bussolo, Damien Capelle, Michael M. Lokshin, Iván Torre & Hernan Winkler
Job Tenure and Structural Change in the Transition Economies of Europe
Maurizio Bussolo, Michael M. Lokshin, Nicolás Oviedo & Iván Torre
Protect Incomes or Protect Jobs? The Role of Social Policies in Post-Pandemic Recovery
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Michael Lokshin & Iván Torre
Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors: Europe and Central Asia (published in Munich Personal RePEc Archive)
Harry Patrinos & Claudio Montenegro
Returns to Education in Greece: Evidence from the 1977 Labor Market Survey Using the Greek Civil War as an Instrument (published in IZA Discussion Papers)
Harry A. Patrinos
Capturing the Educational and Economic Impacts of School Closures in Poland
Tomasz Gajderowicz, Maciej Jakubowski, Harry Anthony Patrinos & Sylwia Wrona
Measuring human capital in middle income countries (published in Journal of Comparative Economics)
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Iván Torre
Is Social Protection a Luxury Good?
Michael Lokshin, Martin Ravallion & Iván Torre
2021
Effects of Public Sector Wages on Corruption: Wage Inequality Matters
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Michael Lokshin & Vladimir Kolchin
I Perceive Therefore I Demand: The Formation of Inequality Perceptions and Demand for Redistribution (published in The Review of Income and Wealth)
Maurizio Bussolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Anna Giolbas & Iván Torre
The Highways and Side Roads of Statistical Capacity Building
Michael Lokshin
Would Mexican Migrants be Willing to Guarantee Americans a Basic Income?
Michael Lokshin & Martin Ravallion
2020
Opening-up Trajectories and Economic Recovery: Lessons after the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic (published in CESifo Economic Studies)
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre
The Sooner, the Better: The Early Economic Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic (published in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change)
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Michael Lokshin & Iván Torre
The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in the Russian Federation
Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh H. Dang & Michael M. Lokshin
Hide and Protect: A Role of Global Financial Secrecy in Shaping Domestic Institutions
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova & Michael Lokshin
Feeling Poor, Feeling Rich, or Feeling Middle-Class: An Empirical Investigation
Maurizio Bussolo, Mathilde Lebrand & Iván Torre
Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy
Michael Lokshin, Vladimir Kolchin & Martin Ravallion
2019
Management Capabilities and Performance of Firms in the Russian Federation
Arti Grover Goswami & Iván Torre
Vertical and Horizontal Redistribution: Evidence from Europe (Research on Economic Inequality)
Maurizio Bussolo, Carla Krolage, Mattia Makovec, Andreas Peichl, Marc Stöckli, Iván Torre & Christian Wittneben
The Missing Market for Work Permits
Michael Lokshin & Martin Ravallion
Last Updated: Jul 31, 2023
Disclaimer: The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in these papers are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent