Global Trends in Innovation Patterns: A Complexity Approach
Technological know-how in a country shapes its growth potential and competitiveness.
Research
Behind the Curve: Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth?
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement.
A research agenda for economic resilience in fossil fuel–dependent communities
World leaders have committed to a transition away from fossil fuels in the energy system.
Diagnosing Wyoming's Workforce Challenges
Wyoming is facing two distinct labor market challenges: in the short-term, low workforce availability is a constraint while in the long-term job and wage growth have stagnated.
Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Economies
Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal, unproductive, and in services.
From Products to Capabilities: Constructing a Genotypic Product Space
Economic development is a path-dependent process in which countries accumulate capabilities that allow them to move into more complex products and industries.
The Social Costs of Sovereign Default
This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt.
Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Countries
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and equity.
Who benefits? Experimental evidence on Saudi women’s take-up of unemployment assistance
Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household?
The Dollar versus the Euro as International Reserve Currencies
We begin by examining determinants of aggregate foreign exchange reserve holdings by central banks (size of issuing country’s economy and financial markets, ability of the currency to hold value, and
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