The NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics brings together leading American and European economists to discuss a broad range of…
During the five years from 2003 to 2007, global perceptions of risk were unusually low, as reflected in the market pricing of sovereign…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…
Book abstract: When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United…
Please see the latest August 2013 version of this paper, RWP13-025.
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…