Drivers of Digital Payment Adoption: Lessons from Brazil, Costa Rica, and Mexico by David Argente, Paula Gonzalez Alvarez, Esteban Méndez, Diana Van Patten published by NBER (9/2025). Digital payment platforms can displace cash and extend financial services to underserved…
Monetary-Fiscal Interactions by John H. Cochrane published by NBER (9/2025). Inflation surged in 2021-2023 from a classic fiscal shock: money and debt that financed huge spending, without a plan for repayment. Neither money nor supply shocks offer a coherent…
Flexible work, rigid politics: Platformization, aspirations, and the making of the authoritariat in the global south by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Miguel Paolo Rivera, Wagner Guilherme Alves da Silva, Rashmi Guha Ray, Marina Frid, and Jessica Matheus de Souza published by Dialogues on Digital Society (2025). This article examines…
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Competition and intellectual property in Latin America and the Caribbean (OECD)
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Competition and intellectual property in Latin America and the Caribbean published by OECD (2025). This paper provides an overview of the interplay between competition and intellectual property (IP) law in Latin America and the Caribbean. It begins by outlining…
The World Needs a New Economics of Water by Mariana Mazzucato published by Project Syndicate (8/2025). Growing risks to the water supplies and hydrological cycles that sustain human civilization call for a new economic framework. In the remaining months…
Relatório de Acompanhamento Fiscal publicado por IFI (9/2025). “PIB do segundo trimestre, hiato do produto e parâmetros do PLOA – 2026 A atividade desacelerou no segundo trimestre, mas a economia ainda opera acima do potencial, com mercado de trabalho…
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The Liquidity State Dependence of Monetary Policy Transmission (Ashtari-Tafti et al.)
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The Liquidity State Dependence of Monetary Policy Transmission by Oliver Ashtari-Tafti, Rodrigo Guimaraes, Gabor Pinter, Jean-Charles Wijnandts published by BIS (9/2025). We show that monetary policy shocks move long-term government bond yields only when market liquidity is high and…
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The Impact of Labor Litigation Cases on Firm-level Productivity in Brazil (Hannan & Pienknagura)
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The Impact of Labor Litigation Cases on Firm-level Productivity in Brazil by Swarnali Ahmed Hannan and Samuel Pienknagura published by IMF (3/2025). The Brazilian labor market went through significant changes in 2017 with reforms to reduce litigation and increase…
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Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax (Gordon)
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Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax by Roger Gordon published by NBER (3/2023). This paper rethinks the design of the income tax by assuming that the objective of the tax is not to redistribute from rich…
The Fiscal Future by N. Gregory Mankiw published by NBER (2025) “…The topic I would like to talk about today was close to Marty’s heart: the stance of fiscal policy and the path of government debt. Throughout his career,…