Although in theory elections are supposed to prevent criminal or venal candidates from winning or retaining office, in practice voters…
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering. Karen Mills, August 4, 2014, Opinion. “During the 2008 financial crisis, small businesses…
A half century after the Gulf of Tonkin resolution catapulted the United States head first into the tragedy of Vietnam, three lessons stand…
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We propose a framework that, building on the pledges made by governments after the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, could be used to assign…
We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction…
Historically, capital flow bonanzas have often fueled sharp credit expansions in advanced and emerging market economies alike. Focusing…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that…
We provide evidence that economic circumstances are a key intermediating variable for understanding the relationship between schooling and…
We consider a model of technological learning under which people “learn through noticing”: they choose which input dimensions to attend to…
How will countries provide the reliable, affordable energy needed to fuel a growing world economy and lift billions of people out of…