Successful public sector reform is rare in Africa. Over twelve years, Ethiopia transformed its public financial management (PFM) to…
When Greece was bailed out by a joint eurozone-IMF rescue package back in May, it was clear that the deal had bought only a temporary…
Optimal tax and debt policy with endogenously imperfect creditworthiness, Ricardo Hausmann, December 9, 2010, Paper, "This paper studies…
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) represents a novel tax expenditure
program that employs “investable” tax credits to spur…
This paper summarises the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash…
This paper examines premises and data underlying the assertion that some financial institutions in the U.S. economy were "too big to fail"…
Parting Words: Lawrence Summers points to the most important issue of our time: China. Lawrence Summers, November 21, 2010, Opinion. "A key…
Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster. Rebecca Henderson, November 2, 2010, Paper, "Executives…
The recent collapse of the mortgage market revealed fractures in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct…
Housing Policy in the Wake of the Crash. Edward Glaeser, Fall 2010, Paper. "Between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. housing market experineced a…