Global demand for renewable energy is growing rapidly, fueled by the falling cost of solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles.…
In 1975, the Nobel laureate economist William D. Nordhaus suggested that developing economies might seek to prop up the value of their…
Even those who believe that Democrats, by and large, pursue better economic policies than Republicans have a hard time explaining why the…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Community targeting of vote payments - defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections - is widespread in…
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…