Working Papers – International Finance – Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP)

The Future of Finance & Trade in Africa Conference

Wednesday, April 17th8:00 am – 7:30 pm ET1957 E St NW, Washington DCElliott School of International Affairs The Institute for International Economic Policy was pleased to announce that the Conference on The Future of Finance and Trade in Africa will take...

The Economic Prospects of Middle-Income Countries

Monday, December 4th, 2023
5:30 – 7:30 pm ET
City View Room, Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 7th Floor

IMF Africa REO

Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
via Zoom and In-Person

How is the Roll Out of Digital RMB Changing the Financial System in China and Abroad?

Friday, November 19th, 2021
9:30 – 11:00 a.m. ET
via Zoom

Campaign Finance Rules and Wealth of Politicians

Monday, June 21, 2021
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT
via Zoom

IMF Global Financial Stability Report: Preempting a Legacy of Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m EDT
via Zoom

Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas

Friday, April 30, 2021
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EDT
via Zoom

International Monetary Fund’s Spring 2021 World Economic Outlook

Friday, April 23, 2021
1:30-3:00 pm EDT
via Zoom

Rethinking Financial Regulation for the 21st Century

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
12:30pm – 2:00pm
via WebEx

China’s Outward Investments: State Capitalism or Capital Flight?

Friday, March 5, 2021
9:00 am – 10:30 am
via Webex

India’s Federal Finances in COVID Times: The 15th Finance Commission

Wednesday March 10th, 2021
9:00 – 10:30am EST
via Webex

IMF World Economic Outlook

Elliott School of International Affairs
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Lindner Family Commons

Drug Money and Bank Lending: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering

March 2019. Tomas Williams, Pablo Slutzky, and Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas. IIEP Working Paper 2019-5.

How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets

January 2018. Updated: September 2018. Tomas Williams, Nathan Converse, and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati. IIEP Working Paper 2018-1.

Do Fed Forecast Errors Matter?

August 2018. Tara Sinclair, Pao-Lin Tien, & Edward N. Gamber. IIEP Working Paper 2016-14.

Businesspeople in Elected Office: Identifying Private Benefits from Firm-Level Returns

September 2017 by David Szakonyi (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-20

State Ownership and Transparency in Foreign Direct Investment: Loose-Lipped Leviathan?

September 2017 by Robert Weiner (George Washington University) & Anthony P. Cannizzaro (Catholic University of America) IIEP Working Paper 2017-18...

Could Austerity Collapse the Economy of Puerto Rico?

September 2017 by Paul Carrillo (George Washington University), Anthony Yezer (George Washington University), & Jozefina Kalaj (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-17...

Capital Inflows, Sovereign Debt and Bank Lending: Micro-Evidence from an Emerging Market

August 2017 by Tomas Williams (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-12

Capital Flows and Sovereign Debt Markets: Evidence from Index Rebalancings

August 2017 by Tomas Williams (George Washington University) and Lorenzo Pandolfi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) IIEP Working Paper 2017-11

International Asset Allocations and Capital Flows: The Benchmark Effect

August 2017 by Tomas Williams (George Washington University), Claudio Raddatz (IMF), and Sergio L. Schmukler (World Bank) IIEP Working Paper 2017-10...

Reviving Private Investment in India: Determinants and Policy Levers

March 2017 by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) & Akshata Kalloor (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi) IIEP Working Paper 2017-5...

A State-Level Analysis of Okun’s Law

September 2015 by Amy Guisinger (George Washington University), Ruben Hernandez-Murillo (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Michael Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), and Tara Sinclair (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...

Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma: Sources of monetary policy autonomy

February 2015 by Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-4

International Currency Exposures, Valuation Effects and the Global Financial Crisis

February 2015 by Agustín S. Bénétrix (Trinity College Dublin), Philip R. Lane (Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin and CEPR), and Jay C. Shambaugh (The George Washington University and NBER) IIEP Working Paper...

Evaluating Forecasts of a Vector of Variables: A German Forecasting Competition

July 2014 by Hans Christian Müller-Dröge (Handelsblatt Newspaper), Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University), and Herman Stekler (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...

What Can We Learn From Revisions to the Greenbook Forecasts?

May 2014 by Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University), Jeff Messina (The George Washington University) and Herman Stekler (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...

Fiscal Discoveries and Yield Decouplings

May 2014 by Luis Catão (IMF), Ana Fostel (George Washington University), and Romain Ranciere (IMF) IIEP Working Paper 2014-21

Okun’s Law in Real Time

January 2014 by Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University) and Amy Y. Guisinger (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-5

Chinese Provincial Macroeconomic Data Revisions

September 2013 by Shirley Hsuan Hsieh IIEP Working Paper 2013-09

Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

August 2013 by Claudia Berg (George Washington University), M. Shahe Emran (IDP, Columbua University) and Forhad Shilpi (World Bank) IIEP Working Paper 2013-08

Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment

June 2013 by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-18

‘Re-righting business’: John Ruggie and the struggle to develop international human rights standards for transnational firms

July 2013 by Susan Ariel Aaronson (Department of Economics, GWU), and Ian Higham (London School of Economics) IIEP Working Paper 2013-5

Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization

May 2013 by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-16

How Well Does Core Inflation Capture Permanent Price Changes?

March 2013 by Michael D. Bradley (Department of Economics, GWU), Dennis W. Jansen Department of Economics (Texas A and M University), and Tara M. Sinclair (GWU) IIEP Working Paper...

Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation? Evidence from the U.S. and the Netherlands

August 2012 by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2012-11