As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
As a candidate for the White House, Barack Obama benefited from an unprecedented, broad-based, and passionate grass-roots mobilization. As…
Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very…
In Search of Real Rigidities. Gita Gopinath, April 1, 2010, Paper. "The closed and open economy literatures work on…
Endowments, fiscal federalism and the cost of capital for states: evidence from Brazil, 1981-1930. Aldo Musacchio, …
Europe and the Euro. Alberto Alesina, April 1, 2010, Book. "It is rare for countries to give up their currencies and thus their…
Fiscal adjustments: lessons from recent history. Alberto Alesina, April 2010, Paper. "In the aftermath of the Great Recession, many…