Ms. Stefania Fabrizio

Energy Subsidy Reform

Lessons and Implications

Energy subsidies are aimed at protecting consumers, however, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress pr...

Women, Work, and the Economy:Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity

The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women’s participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women f...

Women, Work, and the Economy:Macroeconomic Gains from Gender Equity

The proposed SDN discusses the specific macro-critical aspects of women’s participation in the labor market and the constraints that prevent women f...

COVID-19 She-Cession: The Employment Penalty of Taking Care of Young Children

The COVID-19 outbreak and the measures to contain the virus have caused severe disruptions to labor supply and demand worldwide. Understanding who is ...

Women in the Labor Force

The Role of Fiscal Policies

Despite the increase in female labor force participation over the past three decades, women still do not have the same opportunities as men to partici...

Epidemics, Gender, and Human Capital in Developing Countries

Epidemics have disrupted lives for centuries with deleterious human capital and economic repercussions. In this paper, we investigate how epidemics ep...

From Ambition to Execution

Policies in Support of Sustainable Development Goals

The formal launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets the global development agenda through 2030, placing significant emphasis on promoti...

Macro-Structural Policies and Income Inequality in Low-Income Developing Countries

Despite sustained economic growth and rapid poverty reductions, income inequality remains stubbornly high in many low-income developing countries. Thi...

Domestic, Foreign or Common Shocks?

A stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy is used to analyze the origin of international business cycles using data for Germany, Jap...

A New Tool for Distributional Incidence Analysis

An Application to Fuel Subsidy Reform

Increased focus on income inequality and distributional issues has made incidence analysis a crucial input into policy decisions. This note presents t...

Competitiveness in the Southern Euro Area

France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain

This collection of studies analyzes developments in nonprice external competitiveness of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. While France, Ita...

Export Competitiveness - Fuel Price Nexus in Developing Countries: Real or False Concern?

This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing countries over the period 2000-2014....

Is the Glass Half Empty Or Half Full?

Issues in Managing Water Challenges and Policy Instruments

This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instrument...

Is the Glass Half Empty Or Half Full?

Issues in Managing Water Challenges and Policy Instruments

This paper examines water challenges, a growing global concern with adverse economic and social consequences, and discusses economic policy instrument...

Should Italy Sell Its Nonfinancial Assets to Reduce the Debt?

This paper assesses the proposal, publicly debated in recent years in Italy, to reduce public debt by selling public assets, especially nonfinancial t...

How Long is the Long Run? a Dynamic Analysis of the Spanish Business Cycle

This paper studies the sources of Spanish business cycles. It assumes that Spanish output is affected by two types of shocks. The first one has perman...