Please see RWP13-004 for the latest version of this working paper.
Please see the updated version of this paper, RWP13-019.
The information structure of the climate change policy collaboration problem necessitates the design of institutions to enhance public…
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states. In particular, this is the…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging…
The large economies have each, in sequence, offered “models” that once seemed attractive to others but that eventually gave way to…
Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those…
We explore a framework that could be used to assign quantitative allocations of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), across all countries…
When international observers criticize the quality of elections, do these expert evaluations reflect ‘Western/American’ values? Or are…