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Towards a London Economic Consensus: an introduction Open

Tim Besley, Andrés Velasco · 2025

Fiscal policy and public debt Open

Ricardo Reis, Andrés Velasco · 2025

The original Washington Consensus fiscal policy principles involved fiscal discipline, public spending on physical and human capital, and broad tax bases with low tax rates. While these principles remain sound, in this paper we add two new…

Descarte de antimicrobianos na atenção primária à saúde nos distritos e ilhas da metrópole da Amazônia Open

Maria Eduarda Cunha Elias, Tiago Miguel e Sousa Gonçalves, Rebeca do Nascimento Pinto Lima, Vívian de Lima Brabo, Fernando Gabriel dos Santos Santiago , et al. · 2025

Introdução: A atenção primária à saúde (APS), como porta de entrada do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), exerce papel essencial na promoção da saúde e no uso racional de medicamentos. Entre os desafios enfrentados nesse nível de atenção, desta…

A Inteligência Artificial na saúde: os Chatbots e suas aplicações na educação e pesquisa científica médicas Open

Andrés Velasco, Erik William Farias Coelho, Victor Leno Silva Paes, R Hernanz Chaves, Rita de Cássia Silva de Oliveira · 2025

Introdução: O ChatGPT, desenvolvido pela OpenAI, revolucionou a interação com informações online, sendo seguido por outras plataformas como Gemini e Bing Chat. Na educação médica, os Chatbots têm sido amplamente utilizados como ferramentas…

Intra-day Solar and Power Forecast for Optimization of Intraday Market Participation Open

Nelson Salazar-Peña, Adolfo Palma-Vergara, Martín Alejandro Montes, María Alejandra Vargas-Torres, Ariel Diaz Salinas , et al. · 2025

The prediction of solar irradiance enhances reliability in photovoltaic (PV) solar plant generation and grid integration. In Colombia, PV plants face penalties if energy production deviates beyond governmental thresholds from intraday mark…

The Populist Playbook: Why Identity Trumps Policy and How Democrats Can Adapt Open

Daniel Brieba, Andrés Velasco · 2025

Despite their poor record in office, populists continue to win elections. Traditional models that assume a narrow definition of self‐interest fail to explain the electoral resilience of populism. Contrary to conventional wisdom, voters typ…

Identity, Civic Capital, and the Narrow Path Open

Andrés Velasco, Robert L. Funk · 2025

Pandemics, Incentives, and Economic Policy: A Dynamic Model Open

Roberto Chang, Humberto Martínez, Andrés Velasco · 2025

Institutional Vulnerability, Breakdown of Trust: A Model of Social Unrest in Chile Open

Andrés Velasco, Robert L. Funk · 2024

Propuesta metodológica para el cálculo del costo de capital Open

Andrés Velasco, Gloria Antonieta Martínez, José Pardo Zapata · 2024

El objeto de este trabajo es la reformulación del cálculo del costo del capital para las empresas mexicanas mediante el desarrollo de una propuesta metodológica con el fin de identificar los métodos que permitan optimizar la estructura fin…

Introduction: Changing Labour Markets and The Future of Social Protection Open

Kirsten Sehnbruch, Andrés Velasco · 2024

The rapid expansion of offshore wind farms challenges the reliability of ICES-coordinated fish surveys—insights from the Baltic Sea Open

Stefanie Haase, Christian von Dorrien, O Kaljuste, N Plantener, Elor Sepp , et al. · 2023

Fish stock assessment and sustainable management requires that the whole distribution area of the managed fish stocks is representatively sampled. Along with an increasing demand for renewable energy in Europe, a growing number of areas ar…

New age of central banking in emerging markets Open

István Kónya, Agustín Carstens, Előd Takáts, Luiz Gustavo Ribeiro Pereira, Piroska Nagy Mohácsi , et al. · 2023

The book New Age of Central Banking in Emerging Markets offers a comprehensive view of the central bank challenges of our times. It explores the importance of price stability, the most pressing macroeconomic challenge facing central banks …

AMÉRICA LATINA DESPUÉS DE LA PANDEMIA Open

Andrés Velasco · 2022

¿Qué aprendimos acerca de las políticas públicas y de la conducción del Estado, durante de esta pandemia? La brecha entre los países que lo hicieron bien y aquellos que lo hicieron mal, se mide en vidas. Este artículo discute el desempeño …

Populism and Identity Politics Open

Andrés Velasco · 2022

Over one-third of humanity lives under populist regimes – and many of those regimes are turning increasingly authoritarian. It is a worldwide challenge to liberal democracy. The conventional wisdom is that bad economics is to blame: the lo…

Introduction Open

Andrés Velasco, Irene Bucelli · 2022

LSE Press is a publisher of high quality, open access research in the social sciences. Through rigorous peer-review and the use of innovative digital approaches we promote the widest possible engagement with social science research. Based …

Populism: Origins and Alternative Policy Responses Open

Andrés Velasco, Irene Bucelli, Thepopulist Challengetoliberaldemocracy, Michael Ignatieff, Catherine E. De Vries , et al. · 2022

Populist movements, parties and leaders have gained influence in many countries, disrupting long-established patterns of party competition, impugning the legitimacy of representative institutions and sometimes actively weakening or coarsen…

Joined at the Hip: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity-Dependent World Open

Guillermo A. Calvo, Andrés Velasco · 2022

Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide - Estimating VARs & SVARs Open

Filipe Campante, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrés Velasco, Nicolas der Meguerditchian · 2021

Learn how to run VAR and SVAR models in a few easy steps. Programming codes included! This guide was produced to accompany Advanced Macro-Economics: an Easy Guide, available open access from LSE Press. Macroeconomic concepts and theories a…

Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide Open

Filipe Campante, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrés Velasco · 2021

Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught…

Five macroeconomic lessons COVID-19 has taught us Open

Andrés Velasco · 2021

The pandemic has turned some economic assumptions upside down, says Andrés Velasco.

Second Interim Report of the Baltic International Fish Survey Working Group (WGBIFS) Open

Mehdi Abbasi, Uwe Böttcher, Henrik Degel, Elena Fedotova, Włodzimierz Grygiel , et al. · 2021

O Desafio da Sustentabilidade Fiscal no Brasil Open

Andrés Velasco, Frank Muci · 2021

O Brasil ilustra o ponto que apesar das baixas taxas de juros em todo o mundo, há limites para dívidas e déficits no mundo pós-COVID. A composição da dívida do Brasil em moeda local é um luxo que poucos mercados emergentes desfrutam, mas o…

Pandemics, Incentives, and Economic Policy: A Dynamic Model Open

Roberto Chang, Humberto Martínez, Andrés Velasco · 2021

The advent of a pandemic is an exogenous shock, but the dynamics of contagion are very much endogenous --and depend on choices that individuals make in response to incentives.In such an episode, economic policy can make a difference not ju…

Credit, Employment, and the COVID Crisis Open

Luis Felipe Céspedes, Roberto Chang, Andrés Velasco · 2021

Pandemic-motivated lockdowns can expose firms to a vicious cycle: they cannot borrow enough to keep paying wages and are forced to dismiss workers; the dismissal of workers in turn reduces future productivity, sales, and profits; and those…

Politicians can’t hide behind scientists forever – even in a pandemic Open

Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco · 2020

It is dangerous when politicians ignore expert advice. But it is just as dangerous when politicians outsource their judgement to experts, especially if the margin of error is huge and the advice is contested, write Tim Besley and Andrés Ve…

The Macroeconomics of a Pandemic: A Minimalist Model Open

Luis Felipe Céspedes, Roberto Chang, Andrés Velasco · 2020

We build a minimalist model of the macroeconomics of a pandemic, with two essential components.The first is productivity-related: if the virus forces firms to shed labor beyond a certain threshold, productivity suffers.The second component…

Economic Policy Incentives to Preserve Lives and Livelihoods Open

Roberto Chang, Andrés Velasco · 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has motivated a myriad of studies and proposals on how economic policy should respond to this colossal shock.But in this debate it is seldom recognized that the health shock is not entirely exogenous.Its magnitude and…

Populism and Identity Politics Open

Andrés Velasco · 2020

Over one-third of humanity lives under populist regimes—and many of those regimes are turning increasingly authoritarian. It is a worldwide challenge to liberal democracy. The conventional wisdom is that bad economics is to blame: the lose…

Baltic International Fish Survey Working Group (WGBIFS) Open

Henrik Degel, Elena Fedotova, Igor Karpushevskiy, Ain Lankov, Niklas Larson , et al. · 2019

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Baltic International Fish Survey Working Group (WGBIFS) met in the Marine Research Institute, Klaipeda University in Klaipeda, Lithuania, on 25–29 March 2019. A total of 21 pa…

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