Looking ahead, Latin America faces no shortage of policy challenges, and many (if not most) of these have domestic economic and political…
The female startup CEO was emailing again. It was the final stage of a potential funding deal with a venture capital firm, and she was…
In 2017, all nine people who won the Nobel Prize in the sciences were men. Historically, 97 percent of Nobel laureates in the sciences have…
Virtually every activity a personundertakes on a typical day — driving to work, charging a phone, cooking dinner — contributes to carbon…
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency…
Agencies, such as the World Bank, bring development to those regions that private investors consider risky
Indianapolis is rethinking its approach, seeking new efficiencies that will better serve those from disadvantaged communities.
As the global economy weakens and markets grow more volatile, it is hard to imagine a worse time to stop 25% of US federal spending for…
Two distinct questions are of interest. (1) To what extent should the central bank be constrained, versus being allowed full discretion…
This article analyzes the trajectory and causes of the explosion of American corporate CEOs’ compensation relative to that of average…