Andrew Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5739508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | BERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Monetary Fund |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2968-0068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Growth‐equity trade‐offs in structural reforms
Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross‐country data covering advanced, emerging‐market, and low‐income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed evidence of a growth‐equity trade‐off for some important reforms. Financial and capital account liberalization seem to increase both growth and inequality, as d…
Some Misconceptions About Public Investment Efficiency and Growth
We reconsider the macroeconomic implications of public investment efficiency, defined as the ratio between the actual increment to public capital and the amount spent. We show that in standard neoclassical and endogenous growth models, increases in public investment spending in inefficient countries do not generally have a lower impact on growth than in efficient countries. This apparently counterintuitive result, which contrasts with earlier pap…
Redistribution, inequality, and growth: New evidence
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth
The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering inequality and an inability to sustain economic growth as two sides of the same coin. Central to the Fund’s mandate is providing advice that will enable members’ economies to grow on a sustained basis. But the Fund has rightly been cautious about recommending…
Policy Responses to Aid Surges in Countries with Limited International Capital Mobility: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime
We study the role of the exchange rate regime, reserve accumulation, and sterilization policies in the macroeconomics of aid surges. Absent sterilization, a peg allows for almost full aid absorption—an increase in the current account deficit net of aid—delivering the same effects as those of a flexible regime but with a necessary increase in inflation. Regardless of the regime, policies that limit absorption and result in large accumulation of re…
Inequality and Unsustainable Growth: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
What makes growth sustained
The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises
La integración de los mercados financieros de todo el mundo durante la última década ha planteado nuevos retos para las autoridades. La velocidad con que el dinero puede convertirse de una moneda a otra y trasladarse de un país a otro se ha acelerado al mejorar la eficiencia de las comunicaciones globales, lo cual reduce considerablemente el tiempo de que disponen las autoridades para responder a las crisis en ciernes. Este folleto pasa revista a…
The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises
The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff
The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises
The integration of financial markets around the world over the past decade has posed new challenges for policymakers. The speed with which money can be switched in and out of currencies and countries has increased with the efficiency of global communications, considerably shortening the time policymakers have to respond to emerging crises. This pamphlet takes alook at attempts by economists to predict crises by developing early warning systems to…
The debt crisis structural explanations of country performance
What makes growth sustained
The debt crisis structural explanations of country performance
Growth‐equity trade‐offs in structural reforms
Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross‐country data covering advanced, emerging‐market, and low‐income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed evidence of a growth‐equity trade‐off for some important reforms. Financial and capital account liberalization seem to increase both growth and inequality, as d…
Policy Responses to Aid Surges in Countries with Limited International Capital Mobility: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime
We study the role of the exchange rate regime, reserve accumulation, and sterilization policies in the macroeconomics of aid surges. Absent sterilization, a peg allows for almost full aid absorption—an increase in the current account deficit net of aid—delivering the same effects as those of a flexible regime but with a necessary increase in inflation. Regardless of the regime, policies that limit absorption and result in large accumulation of re…
The debt crisis structural explanations of country performance
The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises
The integration of financial markets around the world over the past decade has posed new challenges for policymakers. The speed with which money can be switched in and out of currencies and countries has increased with the efficiency of global communications, considerably shortening the time policymakers have to respond to emerging crises. This pamphlet takes alook at attempts by economists to predict crises by developing early warning systems to…
The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises
La integración de los mercados financieros de todo el mundo durante la última década ha planteado nuevos retos para las autoridades. La velocidad con que el dinero puede convertirse de una moneda a otra y trasladarse de un país a otro se ha acelerado al mejorar la eficiencia de las comunicaciones globales, lo cual reduce considerablemente el tiempo de que disponen las autoridades para responder a las crisis en ciernes. Este folleto pasa revista a…
The Challenge of Predicting Economic Crises
The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff
Inequality and Unsustainable Growth: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
What makes growth sustained
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth
The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering inequality and an inability to sustain economic growth as two sides of the same coin. Central to the Fund’s mandate is providing advice that will enable members’ economies to grow on a sustained basis. But the Fund has rightly been cautious about recommending…
Policy Responses to Aid Surges in Countries with Limited International Capital Mobility: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime
We study the role of the exchange rate regime, reserve accumulation, and sterilization policies in the macroeconomics of aid surges. Absent sterilization, a peg allows for almost full aid absorption—an increase in the current account deficit net of aid—delivering the same effects as those of a flexible regime but with a necessary increase in inflation. Regardless of the regime, policies that limit absorption and result in large accumulation of re…
Redistribution, inequality, and growth: New evidence
Some Misconceptions About Public Investment Efficiency and Growth
We reconsider the macroeconomic implications of public investment efficiency, defined as the ratio between the actual increment to public capital and the amount spent. We show that in standard neoclassical and endogenous growth models, increases in public investment spending in inefficient countries do not generally have a lower impact on growth than in efficient countries. This apparently counterintuitive result, which contrasts with earlier pap…
Growth‐equity trade‐offs in structural reforms
Do structural reforms that aim to boost potential output also change the distribution of income? We shed light on this question by looking at the broad patterns in the cross‐country data covering advanced, emerging‐market, and low‐income countries. Our main finding is that there is indeed evidence of a growth‐equity trade‐off for some important reforms. Financial and capital account liberalization seem to increase both growth and inequality, as d…
Economics (9 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 works) · Macroeconomics (5 works) · Inequality (4 works) · Monetary economics (4 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (3 works) · International economics (3 works) · Market economy (3 works)