While the United States has valid reasons to avoid a direct confrontation with Russia, supporting Ukraine’s war effort should be a top…
We build on Baqaee and Farhi (2019, 2021) and derive a theoretically-grounded criterion that allows targeting bans on exports to a…
This paper considers climate policies, not from the perspective of their environmental impacts, but rather their likely effects on labor…
Understaffed and underfunded, the United States’ air-traffic control system is close to its breaking point. The main obstacle to reform is…
This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from…
Examining the expansion of Jakarta’s bus system shows how simple improvements in public transport service quality can boost usage
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class…
According to the traditional rules of politics, the US Federal Reserve and President Joe Biden’s administration should get credit for…
This is a bold and intriguing paper. It offers a new explanation for poverty reduction (or lack thereof) and interesting new empirical…
It is painfully clear that South Africa is performing poorly, exacerbating problems such as inequality and exclusion. The economy’s ability…