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Should Venezuela Default? Ricardo Hausmann, September 5, 2014, Opinion. "Will Venezuela default on its foreign bonds? Markets fear that it might. That is why Venezuelan bonds pay…
Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Italian Cities. Alberto Alesina, September 2014, Paper. "The introduction of a new real estate tax in Italy in 2011 created a well designed…
(Measured) Profit is Not Welfare: Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance. Richard Hornbeck, September 2014, Paper. "We analyze a randomized trial in…
Market Power in Mortgage Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy. David Scharfstein, Adi Sunderam, September 2014, Paper. "We present evidence that high concentration in…
Central bank rules in historical perspective. Niall Ferguson, September 1, 2014, Paper. "This article explains that, while Walter Bagehot׳s Lombard Street had a rule about the…
The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles. Julio J. Rotemberg, September 1, 2014, Paper. “This paper studies the persistence and some of the consequences of the…
Can the U.S. afford another $3 trillion war? Linda Bilmes, August 27, 2014, Opinion. "After piling up trillions of dollars of war debt during the last decade, America seemed to be…
How to Fix the Corporate Tax? Repeal It. N. Gregory Mankiw, August 24, 2014, Opinion. "'Some people are calling these companies 'corporate deserters.' That is what President…
The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes. Mihir Desai, August 22, 2014, Opinion. "The corporate inversion — when a U.S. company takes on the legal identity of…
Governments as Owners: State Owned Multinational Companies. Aldo Musacchio, 21 August 2014, Paper. "The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an…