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The Economics Working Papers series is a forum for stimulating discussion on research and policy studies that deal with economic and development problems facing the Asia and Pacific region.
This working paper shows how deviations in uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) decrease as local currency bond markets develop and the presence of nonbank financial institutions expands.
This study investigates the feasibility of using remote sensing data for post-disaster damage assessment.
This study assesses the medium-term recovery of women at the village level after the 2016 Aceh earthquake and explains how satellite and administrative data can be used to better identify how to target assistance after a disaster.
This paper examines the feasibility of using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence to develop an efficient and cost-effective way to determine and predict the condition of roads in the Asia and Pacific region.
This paper uses spatially granular surface urban heat island (SUHI) data to quantify the impact of COVID-19-related containment policies on economic output in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
This paper presents empirical evidence that different types of entrepreneurship have varied effects across economies based on a cross-sectional analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth.
This paper quantifies economic interdependence among Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world using a modern global value chain decomposition framework.
In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between corruption and entrepreneurship employing two widely used proxies from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and the World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey.