On October 16, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will convene its 20th Party Congress. Held every five years, the Congress is a critical…
September 21, 2022, Opinion: "Surging inflation and an ongoing economic slowdown should have hurt demand for the US dollar, and yet the…
September 21, 2022, Opinion: "While the United States and European Union have focused on limited but hopefully important Russian reverses…
Human rights are dynamic, rather than static. The contemporary status quo emerged via a three- phase process, from conceptualization, to…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
In the year following Humphrey, a judicial decision mandating that judges consider both defendants' ability to pay cash bail and non-…
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September 20, 2022, Audio: "ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø professors Amitabh Chandra and Soroush Saghafian say we need data analysis and smart policy design to…
September/October 2022, Paper: "Many risky decisions have long time horizons. Consider investing in a business venture that will not pay…
September 4, 2022, Paper: "Using an in-fill argument, the properties of the sample median of a sequence of events are established both for…
Downside Risk Aversion vs Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion: An Intuitive Exposition - James Hammitt
September 2022, Paper: "Downside risk aversion (downside RA) and decreasing absolute risk aversion (DARA) are different concepts that…
Last week at a Harvard conference co-sponsored by CPL, speakers- including co-director Deval Patrick- examined the role of ESG (…