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    • Yet It Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin 

      Eichengreen, Barry; Hausmann, Ricardo; Panizza, Ugo (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-11)
      Notwithstanding announcements of progress, "international original sin" (the denomination of external debt in foreign currency) remains a persistent phenomenon in emerging markets. Although some middle-income countries ...

    • You Get What You Pay For: Sources and Consequences of the Public Sector Premium in Albania and Sri Lanka 

      Hausmann, Ricardo; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Noor, Sehar (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-02)
      We study the factors behind the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka, the group heterogeneity in the premium, the sources of public sector wage compression, and the impact of this compression on the way individuals ...