Almost new stuff

• Investment Gaps in IDB Borrowing Countries (with F. Castellani, M. Olarreaga, and Y. Zhou) IHEID Working Paper

• A Note on the Economics of Philanthropy, (with N. Monnet) IHEID Working Paper

• And Yet It Moves: Inflation and The Great Recession (with D. Miles, R. Reis, and A. Ubide), VoxEU Piece, on Sole 24Ore

• Odiousness Ratings for Public Debt (with R. Hausmann), Project Syndicate

• The use of corruption indicators in sovereing ratings, IDB Technical Note

• Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets (with L. Alfaro, G. Asis, and A. Chari) CEPR Discussion Paper and NBER Working Paper, VoxEU Piece

• Does Greece need more offcial debt relief? If so, how much? (with J. Zettelemeyer and E. Kreplin), Working Paper, Peterson Institute for International Economics

• Non-linearities in the Relationship between Finance and Growth, IHEID Working Paper

• A Perfectly Crazy Idea for the IMF, Project Syndicate

• Public Debt and Private Firm Funding: Evidence from Chinese Cities (with Y. Huang and M. Pagano), VoxEU piece

• The second wave of global liquidity: why are firms acting like financial intermediaries? (with J. Caballero and A. Powell), VoxEU Piece

• Public Debt and Long-Term Economic Growth: The Research and Policy Agenda, Proceedings of the 43rd Economics Conference, Austrian National Bank (2015).

• Billions on the Sidewalk: Improving Savings by Reducing Investment Mistakes (related material at the Harvard/WEF Symposium)

• CIEPR-Brookings Report on Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets (with V. Acharya, S. Cecchetti, J. De Gregorio, S. Kalemli-Ozcan, and P. Lane) see also VoxEU piece

• Too Much Finance or Statistical Illusion: A Comment (with JL Arcand and E Berkes)

• VoxEU Piece on Financing for Development (with C. Adam, A. Presbitero and D. Vines)

• Debt Sustainability in Low-Income Countries - The Grants versus Loans Debate in a World without Crystal Balls

• Peru’s Great Depression A Perfect Storm? (with Gonzalo Llosa)

• To QE or not to QE my contribution to The Economist roundtable on the Quantitative Easing

• Rashomon in euro land, my contribution to The Economist roundtable on the euro zone

• A Surplus of Ambition: Can Europe Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem? (with B. Eichengreen) NBER WP 20316, VoxEU piece, on the Financial Times, on The Economist, other Financial Times

• Public Debt Risks in Italy, on Fortune

• Financial Development and Economic Growth: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns

• Debt Composition, Debt Levels and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging and Advanced Economies (with S. Dell'Erba and R. Hausmann)

• Do We Need a Mechanism for Solving Sovereign Debt Crises? A Rule-Based Discussion (VoxEU pieces about the first and second part of the paper)

• Public Debt and Economic Growth in Advanced Economies: A Survey (with A. Presbitero), VoxEU piece, lavoce.info, il Sole 24 Ore, and interview about the paper

• Finance and Economic Development in a Model with Credit Rationing (with JL Arcand and E. Berkes)

• Public Debt and Economic Growth: Is There a Causal Effect? (with A. Presbitero) VoxEU piece about the paper

• Too Much Finance? (with JL Arcand and E. Berkes) BBC interview, on The Economist, a video interview about the paper, VoxEU piece