Are we in danger of forgetting the scene in “The Godfather, Part II,’’ where the odious Senator Geary demands $250,000 from Michael…
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President Obama should take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook in winning the final inning of the Cold War. Obama can challenge President…
Just in the last year or two, the Chinese currency has begun to internationalize along a number of dimensions. A RMB bond market has grown…
Qatar, a country of fewer than 2 million people set on a peninsula smaller than Connecticut, seems an unlikely candidate to become a…
Has the South, once the "Solid South" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why…
Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century – Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud – all…
We analyze linear models with a single endogenous regressor in the presence of many instrumental variables. We weaken a key assumption…
This essay tries to explain some ways in which we can come to know about ourselves, in particular about what we think. It also tries to…
In this paper, we provide new evidence regarding the pass-through of diesel and gasoline
taxes to prices, and how the estimated pass-…