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.
The long-term need for stronger political leadership is NATO's most important challenge. The eurozone debt crisis and substantial…
Please see RWP13-004 for the latest version of this working paper.
Egypt’s decision last month to stop selling natural gas to Israel could be a harbinger of increasingly confrontational Egyptian-Israeli…
In the same way that the fiscal crisis is pitting northern and central Europe against southern Europe, the refugee challenge is making…