While the federal deficit captures the news headlines, there is a deep and pervasive fiscal crisis in state finance. This crisis is largely…
Financial meltdown has been averted in Europe ? for now. But the future of the European Union and the fate of the eurozone still hang in…
We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases -…
Throughout, the history of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, natural resource wealth has been critical for its economies.…
Development economists should stop acting as categorical advocates (or detractors) for specific approaches to development. They should…
This paper investigates whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008-09 financial crisis. Rather…
Causes of the Financial Crisis: Many Responsible Parties. Richard Zeckhauser, June 2010, Paper. "This analysis argues that blame for…
The $140 billion support package that the Greek government has finally received from its European Union partners and the International…
A new technique for estimating countries’ de facto exchange rate regimes synthesizes two approaches. One approach estimates the implicit de…