Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Russia possesses enormous reserves of oil, natural gas, and coal, and its size and geographic location put it in close proximity to some of…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
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 investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in…
It has been proposed that central banks should target Nominal GDP (NGDP), as an alternative to targeting the money supply, exchange rate,…
Written jointly with Pinar Dogan, this is an update of our 2010 book (see below) on the infamous Sledgehammer case in Turkey. In addition…
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes: stitching garments and weaving textiles…
We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in Afghanistan combining: (i) a two-part experimental…