Aart Kraay
World Bank
165 Papers
1.4K Citations
Aart Kraay is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 165 publications. Previous affiliations of Aart Kraay include Yale University & International Monetary Fund.
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How Large is the Government Spending Multiplier? Evidence from World Bank Lending
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method of isolating fluctuations in public spending that are likely to be uncorrelated with contemporaneous macroeconomic shocks and can be used to estimate government spending multipliers.
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Product Prices and the OECD Cycle
Aart Kraay,Jaume Ventura +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the peak of the OECD cycle is associated with high prices of labour-intensive products and low prices of capital-intensive ones, and that the cyclical behaviour of product prices offers an important clue as to why business cycles are so synchronized.
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Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics
Erhan Artuc,Robert Cull,Susmita Dasgupta,Roberto N. Fattal Jaef,Deon Filmer,Xavier Gine,Hanan G. Jacoby,Dean Jolliffe,Dean Jolliffe,Hiau Looi Kee,Leora Klapper,Aart Kraay,Norman V. Loayza,David McKenzie,David McKenzie,Berk Ozler,Vijayendra Rao,Bob Rijkers,Sergio L. Schmukler,Michael Toman,Adam Wagstaff,Michael Woolcock,Michael Woolcock +22 more
TL;DR: This paper summarized a selection of major insights in development economics in the past decade and provided evidence from recent research on how policies should be designed, implemented, and evaluated, and provided illustrations of what works and what does not in selected policy areas.
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Product Prices And The OECD Cycle
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the peak of the OECD cycle is associated with high prices of labour-intensive products and low prices of capital-intensive ones, and that the cyclical behaviour of product prices offers an important clue as to why business cycles are so synchronized.