My older daughter, who is working in Australia, recently visited Shanghai for the first time. After her arrival, she e-mailed my wife and…
En años recientes, analistas políticos han detectado –y lamentado– señales muy extendidas de “fatiga de la democracia” alrededor del globo…
We evaluate why individuals invest in high-fee index funds. In our experiments, subjects each allocate $10,000 across four S&P 500…
Why does the International Monetary Fund make it so hard for people like me to love it?
The IMF has said and done all the right things…
Today we celebrate 11/9. The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11, but controversy persists about its…
Much of the health care debate is focused on whether the country can afford the $850 billion the Congressional Budget Office estimates it…
What kind of data can be analyzed in what ways to help to determine the current
level of performance, to ascertain what approaches (if any…
Recent developments, especially the devastating economic crisis, have highlighted the world’s growing interdependence and drawn attention…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Environmentalists who are worried about global warming should pay attention to the congressional debate about extending the home buyers tax…