Davide Furceri

How do trade restrictiveness and trade policy uncertainty affect FDI? An empirical investigation

Rising trade barriers and uncertainty are choking FDI inflows, hitting low and middle-income investors hardest in a fragmented global economy

Hites Ahir, Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Francesco Frangiamore, Jonathan D. Ostry and Francesco Scianna

Economic development, carbon emissions and climate policies

Luca Bettarelli, Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan D. Ostry and Loredana Pisano

Navigating the treacherous political economy of structural reform

In setting economic policy, politicians should pay attention to the latest economic data and to when they next need to face voters at the polls

Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, Chris Papageorgiou and Dennis P. Quinn

Climate policies carry political costs, but those costs can be mitigated

Climate policies must be calibrated carefully if they are to be accepted by the public and thus not hurt politicians’ electoral chances.

Davide Furceri, Michael Ganslmeier and Jonathan D. Ostry

Recessions, the energy mix and environmental policy

This paper highlights that recessions result in permanent increases in energy efficiency and in the share of renewables in total electricity.

Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry and Nour Tawk

A new measure of aggregate trade restrictions: cyclical drivers and macro effects

In this paper, we present a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions.

Julia Estefania-Flores, Davide Furceri, Swarnali A. Hannan, Jonathan D. Ostry and Andrew K. Rose