As the death toll in Syria approached 1,000, President Barack Obama finally announced sanctions against the regime. His move stopped…
The Rise of Developing Asia and The New Economic Order. Dale Jorgenson, June 8, 2011, Paper. "This paper identifies emerging…
Every time the International Monetary Fund awaits a new managing director, critics complain that it is past time for the appointee to come…
Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists…
At the Cold War’s end, some pundits proclaimed that “geo-economics” had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the key to…
Bad politics are filled with hoopla and hyper-charged rhetoric, while good government is often dull, so anyone can be forgiven for missing…
Medicare bases its risk adjustment method for Medicare Advantage plan payment on the relative costs of treating various diagnoses in…
We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which…
The R package Synth implements synthetic control methods for comparative case studies designed to estimate the causal effects of policy…
This paper revisits the logic of pursuing parallel R&D paths when there is uncertainty as to which approaches will succeed technically…