Selected Publications
Peer-reviewed Journals
“Revisiting IMF Expenditure Conditionality,” September 2020, Applied Economics, with S. Gupta & M. Schena.
“Pouring Oil on Fire: Interest Deductibility and Corporate Debt,” International Tax and Public Finance, May 2020, with P. Dallari, N. End, F. Miryugin, & A. Tieman.
“Oil Prices, Growth, and Remittance Outflows from the Gulf Cooperation Council,” Economic Notes, April 2019, with S. De, S. Quayyum, & K. Schuettler.
“Remittances Over the Business Cycle: Theory and Evidence,” Economic Notes, April 2019, with S. De, E. Islamaj, & A. Kose.
“Smooth Operator: Remittances and Household Consumption during Fiscal Shocks,” B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics, February 2018, with K. Beaton & S. Cevik.
“The Finance and Growth Nexus Re-examined: Do all Countries Benefit Equally?” Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, November 2015, with A. Barajas & R. Chami.
“Demand Estimation for the Iranian Automobile Industry,” The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, August 2013, with M. H. Rahmati.
Book Chapters and Flagship Reports
“Managing Public Wealth,” Fiscal Monitor, October 2018.
“Migration and Remittance for Development in Asia,” Asian Development Bank, May 2018.
“Migration and Development: The Asian Experience,” The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, March 2015, with D. Ratha & S. Yi.
“Can Remittances Help Promote Consumption Stability?” Global Economic Prospects, World Bank, January 2015, with S. De, E. Islamaj, A. Kose, & D. Ratha.
IMF and Other Publications
“Public Sector Balance Sheet Strength and the Macro Economy” IMF Working Paper No. 19/170, August 2019.
“Banking on Women Leaders: A Case for More?” IMF Working Paper No. 17/199, September 2017, with R. Sahay and others.
“Financial Inclusion: Can it Meet Multiple Macroeconomic Goals?” IMF Staff Discussion Note, September 2015.
“Rethinking Financial Deepening: Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets,” IMF Staff Discussion Note, May 2015.
“Too Cold, Too Hot, or Just Right? Assessing Financial Sector Development Across the Globe,“ IMF Working Paper No. 13/81, March 2013, with A. Barajas, T. Beck, & E. Dabla-Norris.
“Financial Development and Economic Growth in the Associated Mediterranean (MEDA) Countries: Current States of Affairs and Proposals for Improvement,” The European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), October 2012, with A. Barajas.
“Differing Benefits: Financial Development Does Not Give the Same Growth Boost to All Countries,” Finance & Development, September 2011, with A. Barajas & R. Chami.