Biofuels have become big policy and big business. Government targets, mandates, and
blending quotas have created a growing demand for…
Country diversification, product ubiquity, and economic divergence. Ricardo Hausmann, October 2010, Paper. "Countries differ markedly in…
The Structure of Tariffs and Long-Term Growth. Nathan Nunn, October 2010, Paper. "We show that the “skill bias” of a country’s tariff…
The US and Russia: They Don't Need Us. Andrei Shleifer, September 28, 2010, Paper. "Russia‟s international behavior during the last decade…
Prices of most agricultural and mineral commodities rose strongly in the past decade, peaking sharply in 2008. Popular explanations…
International Prices, Costs and Mark-up differences. Gita Gopinath, August 17, 2010, Paper. "Relative cross-border retail…
The 2009 conference, jointly hosted by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian…
In Search of Real Rigidities. Gita Gopinath, April 1, 2010, Paper. "The closed and open economy literatures work on…
It is striking how often countries with oil or other natural resource wealth have failed to grow more rapidly than those without. This is…
Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries. Laura Alfaro, January 2010, Paper. "We study how trade policy affects firms’ ownership structures.…