Publications

In a widely circulated paper, Dany Bahar and Ricardo Hausmann claim that sanctions on the Venezuelan economy do not lead to greater migration flows to the United States. This paper shows that their conclusions rest on a serious methodological mistake: testing for a long-run relationship through a misspecified cointegration in first-differences. This mistake invalidates their statistical approach and findings.

Your questions about Honduras’s November 30 elections answered. The following Q and A looks at the key issues that have generated discussion and debate ahead of the election and provides background on the electoral process as well as the internal and external actors that are likely to play a role in its conduct and outcome.

A new working paper shows how an IMF playbook could boost the global economy by providing guidance to countries on how best to maximize use of the Special Drawing Rights they receive.

A new CEPR report projects that up to over a hundred-thousand US jobs could be saved were the International Monetary Fund to make a new major allocation of Special Drawing Rights, like it did in 2021.

A new CEPR report projects that up to over a hundred-thousand US jobs could be saved were the International Monetary Fund to make a new major allocation of Special Drawing Rights, like it did in 2021.

Union representation continues to be associated with wage and benefit premiums for Black workers, carrying forward the unfinished demands of the 1963 March on Washington.

In the wake of Donald Trump’s absurd claims about a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, it is worth examining the advantages that White African immigrants have in the US labor market over their Black counterparts.

This study, published in The Lancet Global Health, estimates that unilateral sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564,258 deaths, similar to the global mortality burden associated with armed conflict.

CEPR Co-Director and economist Mark Weisbrot joined other members of the Jubilee Commission of Experts at the Vatican on Friday, June 20, for the release of The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and Creating the Financial Foundations for a Sustainable People-Centered Global Economy.

How community adaptation to flood control methods has shaped communities in southeastern Louisiana and what it can teach similar communities about adjusting to delays or decreases in federal support.