We tested the effectiveness of prepayment for advice and aligned incentives as mechanisms for enhancing trust in unfamiliar advisers in…
In February, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force, but without…
In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University…
A long-standing puzzle in the fiscal federalism literature is the empirical non-equivalence in government spending from grants and other…
Due to betrayal aversion, people take risks less willingly when the agent of uncertainty is another person rather than nature. Individuals…
The division of America into red states and blue states misleadingly suggests that states are split into two camps, but along most…
In an increasingly interconnected world it has become hard to say what actually is so special about the state, and why there would be…
Three years ago, as America was preparing to go to war in Iraq, there were few discussions of the likely costs. When Larry Lindsey,…