Nations around the world are considering strategies to mitigate the severe impacts of climate change predicted to occur in the twenty-first…
We construct the topology of business networks across the population of firms in an emerging
economy, Pakistan, and estimate the value that…
Fiscal and monetary policy each has a role to play in mitigating the volatility that stems from the large trade shocks hitting commodity-…
A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of…
How many times have we heard that the nation state is passé? That borders have disappeared, that distance is dead, that the Earth is flat,…
In December, I traveled to Turkey with my wife and young son, as we do every year during winter break. This time, though, we had more than…
American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001-2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had…
Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations' recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of…
Historically, many countries have suffered a pattern of procyclical fiscal policy: spending too much in booms and then forced to cut back…
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important…