2022, Book Chapter: "This chapter presents interim findings of the Comparative Covid Response (CompCoRe) study, a qualitative comparison of…
2022, Paper: "Today, five U.S. firms have reached a market value rarely seen in capitalist economies in the last century. These five are…
This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new…
March 29, 2022, Opinion: "Late Thursday, March 25, the dam broke in Brussels. The resulting flood will inundate Washington. The…
March 28, 2022, Audio: "Earlier this week, the European Union unveiled sweeping antitrust legislation aimed at limiting the power of big…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal, unprovoked war against Ukraine deserves all the opprobrium it has received around the world.…
Public statistics on local economic activity, provided by the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (CBP), the Bureau of Economic…
March 2022, Opinion: "Seeking to increase the interoperability among the technical and social sciences toward new forms of governance…
We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and…
Saito Renho on Japanese economic growth, ‘Abenomics’, redistribution, and future innovation in Japan
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March 2022. Harvard Kennedy School fellow Richard Yarrow and Harvard students Tasuku Ono and Candice…