The recent financial crisis has led many to question how well businesses deliver
consumer financial services and how well regulatory…
While the federal deficit captures the news headlines, there is a deep and pervasive fiscal crisis in state finance. This crisis is largely…
We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases -…
This analysis argues that blame for the financial crisis falls specifically and heavily on a broad range of the private players and public…
In this paper, we provide new evidence regarding the pass-through of diesel and gasoline taxes to prices, and how the estimated pass-…
This paper, written for a conference at the Fordham University Law School, examines
various facets of the “too big to fail” debate. It…
Work on good governance implies a one-best-way model of effective government. This has isomorphic influences on development, whereby…
This article discusses difference-in-differences (DID) estimators, which are commonly applied in evaluation research. In particular, the…
The economic changes associated with globalization tighten financial pressures on governments of high-income countries by increasing the…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…