Labor Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys
We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labor-market shocks.
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Development Incentives That Make Sense
The lesson from New York City's experience with Amazon: There are smarter ways to attract businesses than just dangling tax breaks.
Economics After Neoliberalism
Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.
Privacy of Digital Government Services
Foundations of Migration Economics
This book presents a series of research articles written over the past four decades by leading economists George J. Borjas and Barry R. Chiswick.
Measuring China’s Economic Reform Progress
China’s post 1978 economic reforms have frequently been described with Deng Xiaoping’s phrase about “crossing the river while feeling the stones one by one”.
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence From Vietnam
This article tests whether firm growth reduces corruption, using data from over 10,000 Vietnamese firms.
Jordan: The Elements of a Growth Strategy
In the decade 1999-2009, Jordan experienced an impressive growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%.
Private Outsourcing and Competition: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
We explore the impact of allowing for outsourcing service delivery to the private sector within Indonesia’s largest targeted transfer program.
How funding from multilateral agencies aids road projects
Agencies, such as the World Bank, bring development to those regions that private investors consider risky
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