Publications

Growth Lab faculty, fellows, and affiliates regularly publish research in a wide range of academic and policy venues. These include working papers in either the faculty or fellows CID Working Paper series, books, book chapters, articles in top peer-reviewed journals, policy pieces, op-eds in news outlets, reports, and conference papers.

We've highlighted some of our latest releases below.

Spotlight

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Journal Article
On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia

Latest GDP forecasts suggest the economic sanctions on Russia had a smaller impact than initially anticipated. In research newly published in Economic Policy, Ricardo Hausmann, Ulrich Schetter, and Muhammed Yildirim show that bans on exports to Russia can be made 60% more effective through improved coordination among sanctioning countries and by banning products with the highest impact on Russia.

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Working Paper
The Economic Tale of Two Amazons

This new paper synthesizes the findings of two Growth Lab projects that studied the nature of economic growth in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon. While deforestation is often treated as inevitable to serve human needs, local and global, our research fails to find evidence of a tradeoff between economic growth and forest protection. The economic drivers in the Amazon are its urban areas often located far from the forest.

Book Chapter

Book
Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters

Co-authored by research fellow Eric Protzer, this forensic book draws on original research, cited by the UN and IMF, to demonstrate that illiberal populism strikes hardest when success is influenced by family origins rather than talent and effort.

Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters