Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
As a publication, The State of Open Data will address the development of the open data movement over the past 10 years from a multitude of…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that…
Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have…
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…