In 1791 Alexander Hamilton submitted as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury a now-famous Report on the Subject of Manufactures. In it he…
The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decrease in the rate of income convergence across U.S. states.
This decline coincides with a…
This article addresses the challenge of managing uncertainty when producing estimative intelligence. Much of the theory and practice of…
There is an urgent need to create a new generation of innovation-oriented agricultural that efficiently bring together agricultural…
We study whether prompts to form and recall a plan can increase individuals’
responsiveness to reminders to make and attend beneficial…
The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move…
Please see the latest August 2013 version of this paper, RWP13-025.
Decades of research in ecology have shown that nestedness is a ubiquitous characteristic of both, biological and economic ecosystems. The…
We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation
in the world economy follows indeed…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…