Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
The American judiciary has increasingly come under attack as polarized
and politicized. Using a newly collected dataset that captures the…
French Minister of War Andre Maginot became famous among military strategists for his fixation on a single route of attack that led to…
It has been proposed that central banks should target Nominal GDP (NGDP), as an alternative to targeting the money supply, exchange rate,…
The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history – totaling somewhere between $4 to $6…
Twenty years ago Russia and fourteen other newly-independent states emerged from the ruins of the Soviet empire, many as nations for the…
It has been difficult to open up the black box of knowledge production. We use unique international
data on the publications, citations,…
Why is private investment so low in Gulf compared to Western countries? We investigate cross-regional differences in trust and reference…