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Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Researcher at International Monetary Fund

Publications -  185
Citations -  22164

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti is an academic researcher from International Monetary Fund. The author has contributed to research in topics: Current account & Exchange rate. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 184 publications receiving 21282 citations. Previous affiliations of Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti include London School of Economics and Political Science & National Bureau of Economic Research.

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On the ineffectiveness of tax policy in altering long-run growth: Harberger's superneutrality conjecture

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the growth effects of tax policy in the class of endogenous growth models driven by human capital accumulation, and numerical simulations of these models confirm the results Harberger predicted.
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Electoral Systems and Public Spending

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of electoral institutions on the size and composition of public expenditure in OECD and Latin American countries were studied, where voters anticipating government policymaking under different electoral systems have an incentive to elect representatives more prone to transfer (public good) spending in proportional (majoritarian) systems.
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THE EXTERNAL WEALTH OF NATIONS: Measures of Foreign Assets and Liabilities For Industrial and Developing Countries

TL;DR: In this article, the authors constructed estimates of foreign assets and liabilities and their equity and debt subcomponents for a sample of 67 industrial and developing countries, and explored the sensitivity of estimated stock positions to the treatment of valuation effects not captured in balance of payments data.
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The External Wealth of Nations Mark II: Revised and Extended Estimates of Foreign Assets and Liabilities, 1970–2004

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors construct estimates of external assets and liabilities for 145 countries for the period 1970-2004, focusing on trends in net and gross external positions, and the composition of international portfolios.
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Current Account Reversals and Currency Crises; Empirical Regularities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined which factors help predict the occurrence of a reversal or a currency crisis, and how these events affect macroeconomic performance in low and middle-income countries, and found that an exchange rate crash is associated with a fall in output growth and a recovery thereafter.