Observed over long periods, the upward path of the output of most economies occasionally takes jagged steps down. More often than not,…
Jeffrey Frankel
Professor, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital…
Germans cannot agree to unlimited bailouts of euro members. On the other hand, if they had insisted on the founding principles (fiscal…
Many claim that China will soon overtake the US. I argue that this claim is based on a misuse of statistics. The International Comparison…
Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper…
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We propose a framework that, building on the pledges made by governments after the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, could be used to assign…
This volume brings together a selection of recent articles by leading scholars on the economics of international trade and the environment…
This paper, written for a World Trade Organization compendium, investigates the possibilities open to developing nations for controlling…
In many regulated markets, private, third-party auditors are chosen and paid by the firms that they audit, potentially creating a conflict…
We study differences in quality in the market for third-party environmental auditors in Gujarat, India. We find that, despite the low…