Monitors report that many elections around the world are flawed by problems of corruption and violence – sometimes both. These malpractices…
On falling neutral real rates, fiscal policy, and the risk of secular stagnation. Lawrence Summers, March 7, 2019, Paper, "This paper…
Doubts about the legitimacy of the 2016 US elections continue to reverberate and deepen partisan mistrust in America. A perfect storm…
The left’s embrace of modern monetary theory is a recipe for disaster. Lawrence Summers, March 4, 2019, Opinion, "We’ve seen this…
Modern Monetary Nonsense. Kenneth Rogoff, March 4, 2019, Opinion, "A number of leading progressive US politicians advocate using the…
Supreme Court justices employ law clerks to help them perform their duties. We study whether these clerks influence how justices vote in…
There are economically large costs of pretrial detention—and, by extension, the use of cash bail—due to the significant collateral…
The institutionalization of community participation in the context of policing has become increasingly common in Latin America as a means…
Radical ideas are not unusual in the early stages of a US presidential election campaign, but many of the Democratic candidates for 2020…
Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe. Alberto Alesina, February 2019, Paper, "We examine the relationship between…