Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930. Aldo Musacchio, December 18, 2012…
For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that…
The possibility that the renminbi may soon join the ranks of international currencies has
generated much excitement. This paper looks to…
Consider the following scenario. After a victory by the left-wing Syriza party, Greece’s new government announces that it wants to…
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…
Trade Credit and Taxes. Mihir Desai, C. Fritz Foley, May 2012, Paper. "This paper analyzes the extent to which tax differences affect …
The large economies have each, in sequence, offered “models” that once seemed attractive to others but that eventually gave way to…
China watchers are waiting to see whether the country has engineered a soft landing, cooling down an overheating economy and achieving a…
Book abstract: When countries discover that they possess large deposits of oil and natural gas, the news is usually welcome. Yet,…