Book abstract: When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United…
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Decades of research in ecology have shown that nestedness is a ubiquitous characteristic of both, biological and economic ecosystems. The…
We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation
in the world economy follows indeed…
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
In poor countries, over a quarter of children under the age of five years
are malnourished. The corresponding rate in rich countries is…