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Ugo Panizza is affiliated with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland. Their research covers multiple areas within economics, econometrics, and finance, with a total of 86 publications in these fields.

Their subfields of study include finance, economics and econometrics, accounting, strategy and management, and general economics, econometrics, and finance. The main topics addressed across their body of work focus on global financial crisis and policies, banking stability, regulation and efficiency, fiscal policies and political economy, state capitalism and financial governance, credit risk and financial regulations, corporate finance and governance, and climate change policy and economics.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ugo Panizza include:

  • Local Crowding-Out in China, 2020, The Journal of Finance
  • Yet it Endures: The Persistence of Original Sin, 2022, Open Economies Review
  • Local currency denominated sovereign loans: a portfolio approach to tackle moral hazard and provide insurance, 2024, Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
  • Does public debt crowd out corporate investment?: international evidence, 2024, Econstor (Econstor)
  • State-owned commercial banks, 2022, Journal of Economic Policy Reform

The frequent coauthors of Ugo Panizza comprise Mitu Gulati, Mark C. Weidemaier, Patrick Bolton, Yi Huang, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro.

Regarding publication venues, Panizza has published extensively in outlets such as SSRN Electronic Journal, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Econstor (Econstor), and the Capital Markets Law Journal.

Panizza has contributed to book publications mainly under the World Bank's policy research working paper series, with titles including The Elusive Link between FDI and Economic Growth (2023) and Access to Credit and Bank Ownership: Evidence from Firm-Level Data (2023). Additionally, Panizza has authored work published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, such as Public Investment Quality and Its Implications for Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability (2024).

Best Publications

  • Too much finance

    Jean-Louis L Arcand;Enrico Berkes;Ugo Panizza;Ugo Panizza

  • Bank Ownership and Performance Does Politics Matter

    Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza;Monica Yañez

  • Public debt and economic growth: Is there a causal effect?

    Ugo Panizza;Andrea Filippo Presbitero;Andrea Filippo Presbitero

  • The Economics and Law of Sovereign Debt and Default

    Ugo Panizza;Federico Sturzenegger;Jeromin Zettelmeyer

  • Currency Mismatches, Debt Intolerance and Original Sin: Why They Are Not the Same and Why it Matters

    Barry Eichengreen;Ricardo Hausmann;Ugo Panizza

  • Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior

    Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

  • Why do countries float the way they float

    Ricardo Hausmann;Ugo Panizza;Ernesto H. Stein

  • On the determinants of fiscal centralization: Theory and evidence

    Ugo Panizza

  • PUBLIC DEBT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES: A SURVEY

    Ugo Panizza;Andrea F. Presbitero

  • 1. The Pain of Original Sin

    Ugo Panizza;Ricardo Hausmann;Barry Eichengreen

  • The Costs of Sovereign Default

    Eduardo Borensztein;Ugo Panizza

  • Currency Mismatches, Debt Intolerance, and the Original Sin: Why They Are Not the Same and Why It Matters

    Barry Eichengreen;Ricardo Hausmann;Ugo Panizza

  • Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from American Data

    Ugo Panizza

  • Local Crowding Out in China

    Yi Huang;Marco Pagano;Ugo Panizza

  • Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior

    Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza

  • On the determinants of Original Sin: an empirical investigation

    Ricardo Hausmann;Ugo Panizza

  • Domestic And External Public Debt In Developing Countries

    Ugo Panizza

  • Domestic and External Public Debt in Developing Countries

    Ugo Panizza;Ugo Panizza

  • Too Much Finance

    Enrico Berkes;Ugo Panizza;Jean-Louis Arcand

  • Bank Ownership and Performance

    Alejandro Micco;Ugo Panizza;Mónica Yañez

  • Too Much Finance

    Enrico G Berkes;Ugo Panizza;Jean-Louis Arcand

  • Structural Reforms in Latin America under Scrutiny

    Eduardo Lora;Ugo Panizza

  • The elusive costs of sovereign defaults

    Eduardo Levy Yeyati;Ugo Panizza;Ugo Panizza

  • The Cyclical Nature of North-South FDI Flows

    Eduardo Levy Yeyati;Ugo Panizza;Ernesto H. Stein

  • Currency Mismatches, Debt Intolerance and Original Sin: Why They Are Not the Same and Why it Matters

    Barry Eichengreen;Barry Eichengreen;Barry Eichengreen;Ricardo Hausmann;Ugo Panizza;Ugo Panizza

Frequent Co-Authors

Alejandro Micco
Alejandro Micco University of Chile
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann Harvard University
Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Eduardo Levy Yeyati Torcuato di Tella University
Eduardo Borensztein
Eduardo Borensztein Inter-American Development Bank
Andrea Filippo Presbitero
Andrea Filippo Presbitero International Monetary Fund
Federico Sturzenegger
Federico Sturzenegger University of San Andrés
Laura Alfaro
Laura Alfaro Harvard University
Richard Portes
Richard Portes London Business School

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