Please see the latest August 2013 version of this paper, RWP13-025.
Decades of research in ecology have shown that nestedness is a ubiquitous characteristic of both, biological and economic ecosystems. The…
We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation
in the world economy follows indeed…
On the first anniversary of the devastating tornado that touched ground here, the nation focused on this small city of 50,000 and its…
My family and I spent Monday at Boston College celebrating the graduation of our youngest daughter. And at Harvard, where I teach,…
What factors determine the nature of political opportunism in local government in South India? To answer this question, we study two types…
Eurozone’s Possible ‘Lehman Moment’: What it Means for U.S. Kenneth Rogoff, May 24, 2012, Video. "As the U.S. election season heats up amid…
Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting. Abigail Allen, Karthik Ramanna, May 24, 2012, Paper. "We…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
Please see the updated version of this paper, RWP13-019.