Is There a Kuznets Curve for Intra-City Earnings Inequality?
November 2018 by Haixiao Wu IIEP Working Paper 2018-9
Private Sector Policymaking
October 2018 by David Szakonyi IIEP Working Paper 2018-8
Development Economics Meets the Challenges of Lagging U.S. Areas Applications to Education, Health and Nutrition, Behavior, and Infrastructure
September 2018 by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2018-7
An Examination of the Link between Urban Planning Policies and the High Cost of Housing and Labor
September 2018 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University), William Larson (FHFA), Weihua Zhao (University of Louisville) IIEP Working Paper 2018-6
Modelling Economic Development: The Lewis Model Updated
September 2018 by Carmel Chiswick (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2018-5
Opening Up Argentina to the World: Some Strategic Observations
by Danny Leipziger (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2018-4
Migration and Online Job Search: A Gravity Model Approach
by Tara Sinclair (GW) & Mariano Mamertino (Indeed Hiring Lab) IIEP Working Paper 2018-3
The Rise of Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Global Finance
by Stephen Kaplan (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2018-2
How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets
January 2018 Updated: September 2018 by Tomas Williams, Nathan Converse (Federal Reserve Board), and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati (Universidad Torcuato di Tella). IIEP Working Paper...
Can Differences Deceive? The Case of “Foreclosure Externalities”
by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) & Yishen Liu (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-29
Unilateral and Multilateral Sanctions: A Network Approach
by Sumit Joshi (George Washington University) & Ahmed Saber Mahmud (Johns Hopkins University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-28
Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities
by Sumit Joshi (George Washington University), Ahmed Saber Mahmud (Johns Hopkins University), & Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech) IIEP Working Paper 2017-27
Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
by Bryan Stuart (George Washington University) & Evan Taylor (University of Chicago) IIEP Working Paper 2017-26
The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income
by Bryan Stuart (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-25
The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration
by Bryan Stuart (George Washington University) & Evan Taylor (University of Chicago) IIEP Working Paper 2017-24
Urban Population and Amenities: The Neoclassical Model of Location
by Bryan Stuart (George Washington University) & David Albouy (the University of Illinois and NBER) IIEP Working Paper 2017-23
Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
October 2017 by Stephen Smith (George Washington University) & Uwe Jirjahn (University of Trier) IIEP Working Paper 2017-22
Personal Privacy of HMDA in a World of Big Data
by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-21
Businesspeople in Elected Office: Identifying Private Benefits from Firm-Level Returns
September 2017 by David Szakonyi (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-20
Bolder Divestment Not Better Performance Contracts are the Solution for India’s Public Sector
September 2017 by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) & Swati Gupta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) IIEP Working Paper 2017-19...
State Ownership and Transparency in Foreign Direct Investment: Loose-Lipped Leviathan?
September 2017 by Robert Weiner (George Washington University) & Anthony P. Cannizzaro (Catholic University of America) IIEP Working Paper 2017-18...
Could Austerity Collapse the Economy of Puerto Rico?
September 2017 by Paul Carrillo (George Washington University), Anthony Yezer (George Washington University), & Jozefina Kalaj (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-17...
Repression, Civil Conflict, And Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Kazakhstan
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University IIEP Working Paper 2017-16
Taming the Tiger: Peaceful and Violent Protest and the Repressive Responses of Government
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University), M. Rodwan Abouharb (University College London), & N. Susan Gaines (University of Leeds) IIEP Working Paper...
Repression, Civil Conflict, And Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Turkey
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) & N. Susan Gaines (University of Leeds) IIEP Working Paper 2017-14
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Honduras
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-13
Capital Inflows, Sovereign Debt and Bank Lending: Micro-Evidence from an Emerging Market
August 2017 by Tomas Williams (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-12
Capital Flows and Sovereign Debt Markets: Evidence from Index Rebalancings
August 2017 by Tomas Williams (George Washington University) and Lorenzo Pandolfi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) IIEP Working Paper 2017-11
International Asset Allocations and Capital Flows: The Benchmark Effect
August 2017 by Tomas Williams (George Washington University), Claudio Raddatz (IMF), and Sergio L. Schmukler (World Bank) IIEP Working Paper 2017-10...
What are We Talking About when We Discuss Digital Protectionism?
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-9
Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities
August 2017 by Olga A. Timoshenko (George Washington University) & Erick Sager (Bureau of Labor Statistics) IIEP Working Paper 2017-8
China’s One Belt One Road Strategy: The New Financial Institutions and India’s Options
by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-7
Public Sector Undertakings: Bharat’s other Ratnas
March 2017 by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) & Swati Gupta (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi) IIEP Working Paper...
Reviving Private Investment in India: Determinants and Policy Levers
March 2017 by Ajay Chhibber (George Washington University) & Akshata Kalloor (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi) IIEP Working Paper 2017-5...
Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
March 2017 by Remi Jedwab (George Washington University), Mark Koyama (George Mason University) & Noel Johnson (George Mason University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-4 The authors of this paper examine the Black Death persecutions committed against the Jewish people to...
Economic and Political Factors in Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Railroads and Roads in Africa 1960–2015
February 2017 by Remi Jedwab (George Washington University) & Adam Storeygard (Tufts University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-3
Governance Spillovers of Labour Provisions in Free Trade Agreements
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-2 Most people know that governments such as the US, EU, and Canada use labour rights provisions in trade agreements to improve labour rights. They believe that policymakers in the...
How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomised Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
January 2017 by Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University), Vida Bobić (George Washington University), Ram Fishman (Tel Aviv University), & Munshi Sulaiman (Save the Children) IIEP Working Paper...
Pollution or Crime: The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Criminal Activity
by Paul E. Carrillo (George Washington University), Andrea Lopez (George Washington University), & Arun Malik (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
Redefining Protectionism: The New Challenge in the Digital Age
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-30 Twenty-first century protectionism is a slippery concept. With the introduction of digital trade, it is important for scholars and policymakers to rethink how they define, measure, and...
The Political Economy of Sovereign Borrowing: Explaining the Policy Choices of Highly Indebted Governments
by Stephen B. Kaplan (The George Washington University) and Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-1
Testing the Association between Foreclosure and Nearby House Values: Can Differences Deceive?
by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) & Yishen Liu (Fannie Mae) IIEP Working Paper 2016-29
Partisan Technocratic Cycles in Latin America
by Stephen Kaplan (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-28
Systemic and Idiosyncratic Sovereign Debt Crises
by Graciela Laura Kaminsky (George Washington University) & Pablo Vega-García (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-27
Globalization in the Periphery: Monetary Policy: What is Gained, What is Lost
by Graciela Laura Kaminsky (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-26
The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs
by Chao Wei (George Washington University) & Shanjun Li (Cornell University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-25
Travel Time Use Over Five Decades
by Chao Wei (George Washington University) & Chen Song (University of International Business and Economics) IIEP Working Paper 2016-24
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Bahrain
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-23
Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry
by Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University) & Cathy Ge Bao (University of International Business and Economics) IIEP Working Paper 2016-22
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Argentina
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-21
The Value of Reputation in Trade: Evidence from Alibaba
April 2016 by Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University) & Min Wu (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-20
At the Intersection of Cross‐Border Information Flows and Human Rights: TPP as a Case Study
by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2016-19
Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms
August 2016 by Maggie Xiaoyang Chen (George Washington University) & Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School and NBER) IIEP Working Paper 2016-18
How Do Electoral Quotas Influence Political Competition? Evidence from Municipal, State, and National Elections in India
by Adam Ziegfeld (George Washington University) & Adam Michael Auerbach (American University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-16
The EMG Distribution and Aggregate Trade Elasticities
May 2016 by Olga A. Timoshenko (George Washington University) & Erick Sager (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) IIEP Working Paper 2016-15
Do Fed Forecast Errors Matter?
August 2018 by Tara Sinclair (George Washington University), Pao-Lin Tien (Bureau of Economic Analysis), & Edward N. Gamber (Congressional Budget Office) IIEP Working Paper...
Disruptive Technologies and their Implications for Economic Policy: Some Preliminary Observations
June 2016 by Danny Leipziger & Victoria Dodev (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-13
At the Intersection of Cross-Border Information Flows and Human Rights: TPP as a Case Study
by Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-12
Learning, Prices, and Firm Dynamics
February 2016 by Olga Timoshenko (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-11
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure; The Thai Case Study: 2006-2014
by Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-10
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure; The Sri Lanka Case Study
by Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-9
Working by Design: New Ideas to Empower U.S. and European Workers in TTIP
by Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-8
Can Transparency in Supply Chains Advance Labor Rights? Mapping of Existing Efforts
by Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-7
Can Transparency in Supply Chains Advance Labor Rights? Mapping of Existing Efforts
by. Susan Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-6
Online Job Search and Migration Intentions Across EU Member States
by Tara Sinclair (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-5
Costly Screening, Self-Selection, Fraud, and the Organization of Credit Markets
March 2016 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-4
Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
February 2016 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-3
The Two Fragilities: Vulnerability to Conflict, Environmental Stress, and their Interactions as Challenges to Ending Poverty: A Policy Analysis
by Stephen Smith (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-1
Market Ethics With Trade in an Edgeworth Box
by Steven Suranovic (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-21
Surge Pricing and Price Gouging: Public Misunderstanding as a Market Imperfection
December 2015 by Steven Suranovic (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-20
Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment
by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), Joan Hamory Hicks (UC-Berkeley, CEGA), Michael Kremer (Harvard University, NBER), and Edward Miguel (UC-Berkeley, NBER) IIEP Working Paper...
Long-Term Impacts of High Temperatures on Economic Productivity
October 2015 by Ram Fishman, Jason Russ, and Paul Carrillo (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-18
Travel Time Use Over Five Decades
by Chao Wei (George Washington University) and Chen Song (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-19
A State-Level Analysis of Okun’s Law
September 2015 by Amy Guisinger (George Washington University), Ruben Hernandez-Murillo (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Michael Owyang (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), and Tara Sinclair (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
June 2015 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) and William Larson (Federal Housing Finance Agency) IIEP Working Paper 2015-15
Amenity, Diversity and Obesity: Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
June 2015 by Stephen Popick (George Washington University) and Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-12
Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
July 2017 by Yao Pan, Stephen C. Smith, and Munshi Sulaiman IIEP Working Paper 2015-11
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
August 2015 by Tony Castleman, James Foster, and Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-10
Banking Unconditionally: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in Latin America
by Stephen Kaplan (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-14
Repression, civil conflict and leadership tenure; the Thai Case Study: 2006-2014
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-9
Fighting the Last Economic War: Crisis and Austerity in Latin America
by Stephen Kaplan (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-13
The Repeat Time-On-The-Market Index
by Paul E. Carrillo and Benjamin Williams (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-8
Urbanization without Growth in Historical Perspective
March 2015 by Remi Jedwab (The George Washington University) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) IIEP Working Paper 2015-7
Firm Learning and Growth
February 2015 by Costas Arkolakis (Yale University), Theodore Papageorgiou (NBER McGill University), and Olga Timoshenko (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma: Sources of monetary policy autonomy
February 2015 by Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-4
International Currency Exposures, Valuation Effects and the Global Financial Crisis
February 2015 by Agustín S. Bénétrix (Trinity College Dublin), Philip R. Lane (Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin and CEPR), and Jay C. Shambaugh (The George Washington University and NBER) IIEP Working Paper...
The Mortality Transition, Malthusian Dynamics, and the Rise of Poor Mega-Cities
January 2015 by Remi Jedwab (The George Washington University) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) IIEP Working Paper 2015-6
The Meaning of Fair Trade
January 2015 by Steve Suranovic (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2015-2
The China Boom in Latin America: An End to Austerity
by Stephen B. Kaplan (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-19
When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
October 2014 by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), Joan Hamory Hicks (UC-Berkeley, CEGA), Michael Kremer (Harvard University, NBER), Edward Miguel (UC-Berkeley, NBER), Amrita Ahuja, and Shawn Powers IIEP Working Paper...
Why Does Skill Intensity Vary Across Cities? Housing Cost and True Human Capital
August 2014 by Daniel A. Broxterman (George Washinton University) and Anthony M. Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-15
The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policymaking: Economic Crises and Technocratic Governance
by Stephen B. Kaplan (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-18
Evaluating Forecasts of a Vector of Variables: A German Forecasting Competition
July 2014 by Hans Christian Müller-Dröge (Handelsblatt Newspaper), Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University), and Herman Stekler (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
July 2014 by William Larson (Bureau of Economic Analysis), and Anthony M. Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-16
Can Trade Policy Set Information Free
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-9
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) and M. Rodwan Abouharb (University London College) IIEP Working paper 2014-7
Trade Imbalance: Juggling the Needs of Investors and the Public Interest in TTIP
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) and Rob Maxim (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-8
Putting the Blame on Governments Why Firms and Governments have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) and Ian Higham (EIRIS) IIEP Working Paper 2014-6
What Can We Learn From Revisions to the Greenbook Forecasts?
May 2014 by Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University), Jeff Messina (The George Washington University) and Herman Stekler (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
Fiscal Discoveries and Yield Decouplings
May 2014 by Luis Catão (IMF), Ana Fostel (George Washington University), and Romain Ranciere (IMF) IIEP Working Paper 2014-21
Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry
May 2014 by Maggie X. Chen (The George Washington University) and Cathy Ge Bao (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-13
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
April 2014 by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-20
The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs
April 2014 byChao Wei (The George Washington University) and Shanjun Lei (Cornell University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-12
The Political Economy of Sovereign Borrowing Explaining the Policy Choices of Highly Indebted Governments
by Stephen B. Kaplan (George Washington University) and Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-10
Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover Effects
February 2014 by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), J. Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania), Craig McIntosh (University of California, San Diego) and Berk Ozler (World Bank and University of Otago) IIEP Working Paper...
Okun’s Law in Real Time
January 2014 by Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University) and Amy Y. Guisinger (The George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2014-5
Rural Push, Urban Pull and… Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
January 2014 by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Luc Christiaensen(Development Research Group, The World Bank), and Marina Gindelsky(George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper...
Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa
January 2014 by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University) and Alexander Moradi(University of Sussex) IIEP Working Paper 2014-3
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya
January 2014 by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Edward Kerby(London School of Economics and Political Science), and Alexander Moradi(University of Sussex) IIEP Working Paper...
Urbanization with and without Industrialization
October 2013 Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Douglas Gollin(University of Oxford) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) IIEP Working Paper...
Water, U.S. Foreign Policy and American Leadership
October 2013 by Marcus DuBois King, Ph.D (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-11
Chinese Provincial Macroeconomic Data Revisions
September 2013 by Shirley Hsuan Hsieh IIEP Working Paper 2013-09
Statistical Versus Economic Output Gap Measures: Evidence from Mongolia
by Tara Sinclair (co-author Julia Bersch) IIEP Working Paper 2013-07
Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
August 2013 by Claudia Berg (George Washington University), M. Shahe Emran (IDP, Columbua University) and Forhad Shilpi (World Bank) IIEP Working Paper 2013-08
Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment
June 2013 by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-18
‘Re-righting business’: John Ruggie and the struggle to develop international human rights standards for transnational firms
July 2013 by Susan Ariel Aaronson (Department of Economics, GWU), and Ian Higham (London School of Economics) IIEP Working Paper 2013-5
Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production
June 2013 by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-17
Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production
June 2013 by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-13
Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization
May 2013 by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-16
US-Tyres: Upholding a WTO Accession Contract – Imposing Pain for Little Gain
April 2013 by Steve Charnovitz (George Washington University) and Bernard Hoekman (World Bank) IIEP Working Paper 2013-12
Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness: Policy Imperative and Corporate Opportunity
by Daniel C. Esty (Yale Law School) and Steve Charnovitz (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-14
Driving Restrictions That Work? Quito’s Pico y Placa Program
by Paul Carrillo (co-author Arun Malik and Jiseon Yoo (IIEP and GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2013-01
Sanctuary Markets and Antidumping: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Exporters
March 2013 by Michael O. Moore (GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2013-03
How Well Does Core Inflation Capture Permanent Price Changes?
May 2013 by Michael D. Bradley (Department of Economics, GWU), Dennis W. Jansen Department of Economics (Texas A and M University), and Tara M. Sinclair (GWU) IIEP Working Paper...
Are Sunday Babies Doomed for Life? Measuring the Sunday-Born Achievement Gap in Ecuador
March 2013 by Gabriela Aparicio (co-author Paul E. Carrillo (GWU) and M. Shahe Emran (IPD, Columbia University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-02
Internet Governance and Internet Control: How to Safeguard Internet Freedom, Cicero Great Debate Paper
by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2013-10
Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development
September 2013 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Jonathon Rothbaum) IIEP Working Paper 2013-06
Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
January 2013 by Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University), Verena Dill (Universität Trier), and Uwe Jirjahn (Universität Trier) IIEP Working Paper 2013-15
Product Switching in a Model of Learning
September 2012 by Olga Timoshenko IIEP Working Paper 2012-10
Structural Change in Ghana 1960-2010
September 2012 by Remi Jedwab (GWU and LSE) and Robert Darko Osei (ISSER) IIEP Working Paper 2012-12
Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation? Evidence from the U.S. and the Netherlands
August 2012 by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2012-11
Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Macroeconomic Data Revisions
by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2012-9
Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research
June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Arun S. Malik, IIEP and GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2012-8
The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty
June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2012-7
Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India
May 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Saudamini Das, University of Delhi) IIEP Working Paper 2012-6
Evaluating a Vector of the Fed’s Forecasts
March 2012 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2012-3
The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China
by Yao Pan IIEP Working Paper 2012-5
“Drill, Baby, Drill!” The Correlates of “Energy Independence” Policy in the United States
March 2012 by Llewelyn Hughes (co-author: Francisco Flores-Macias, LCM Commodities) IIEP Working Paper 2012-4
A New Approach For Evaluating Economic Forecasts
March 2012 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2012-2
Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment
February 2012 by Ana Fostel IIEP Working Paper 2012-1
Addicted to Oil: Implications for Climate Change Policy
by Steve Suranovic IIEP Working Paper 2011-22
The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development
November 2011 by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2011-21
Human Recognition among HIV-Infected Adults: Empirical Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya
November 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-11
Trust and Trustworthiness in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Experimental Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake
by Alberto Chong IIEP Working Paper 2011-17
Measurement of Human Recognition: A Methodology with Empirical Applications in India and Kenya
September 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-10
Poverty Measurement with Ordinal Data
by Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura IIEP Working Paper 2011-16
Where Did Identification Go?
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-20
Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review
September 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-8
Human Recognition in Economic Development: A Theoretical Model
by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-9 Updated 2012
Tanker Ownership in non-OECD countries and the Rise of Government-Owned Fleets
by Al Wood IIEP Working Paper 2011-7
Peltzman on Ice: Evidence on Compensating Behavior Using a Natural Experiment from Ice Hockey
by Alberto Chong IIEP Working Paper 2011-12
Making Trade and Human Rights Part of the Solution: WTO Strategies to link trade and Human rights in Conflict Zones
by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-33
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-13
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-34
A Fresh Approach to International Investment Rules
August 2011 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-35
What Kind of Poverty Trap? An Investigation of Single and Multidimensional Traps With Ethiopian Household Panel Data
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2010-4
Argentina: There and Back Again?
June 2011 by Michael Moore IIEP Working Paper 2011-6
Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking Poverty Traps: Framework and Application to Ethiopian Household Panel Data
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-4
Israel – Middle East North Africa (MENA) Trade: Is There Any Truth to the NEG Theory as Applied to the Israel-Jordan QIZs?
May 2011 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2011-25
Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-18
Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy
April 2011 by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-19
Human Rights Provisions in FTAs
by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-31
“How empowering Ghanaians can help Ghana avoid an oily mess”
March 2011 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-32
The Big Five International Oil Companies as Responsible Stakeholders in the Global Economy
by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-5
Differences in Early GDP Component Estimates Between Recession and Expansion
February 2011 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2011-5
Vietnam’s Transition to a Market Economy: The Use of NME Standards in Dumping and Countervailing Investigations: or What Happened to Me On the Way to Rome?
January 2011 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2011-24
US-Regional Agreements with Latin America – The Long and Unsuccessful Saga of CAFTA and the FTAA
January 2011 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2011-23
Polarization and the Decline of the Middle Class: Canada and the U.S.
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-21
Climate Change, Uncertainty and Decision-Making
by Stephen C. Smith & Arun Malik IIEP Working Paper 2010-24 Updated May 2011
Permanent and Transitory Macroeconomic Relationships between China and the Developed World
by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2010-8
Greed, Capitalism and the Financial Crisis
by Steve Suranovic IIEP Working Paper 2010-22
To Sell or Not to Sell: List Price, Transaction Price and Marketing Time in the Housing Market
by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2010-23
Differences in PRC and Indian Textile and Apparel Industry Response to the Elimination of the MFA: Do Cultural Differences Matter?
September 2010 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2010-31
Patent Protection and Strategic Delays in Technology Development: Implications for Economic Growth
September 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-19
Interdependence in Multinational Production Networks
September 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-20
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review
by Arun Malik & Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2010-27
Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
June 2010 by Ana Fostel IIEP Working Paper 2010-18
Implementing Carbon Tariffs: A Fool’s Errand?
June 2010 by Michael O. Moore IIEP Working Paper 2010-2
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
June 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-16
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
June 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-17
“Womb for Rent” – Gestational Surrogacy Contracts – A New Path for Outsourcing Service Contracts
May 2010 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2010-30
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-14
Third Country Effects on the Formation of Free Trade Agreements
April 2010 by Maggie Chen IIEP Working Paper 2008-16
Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing
April 2010 by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-15
Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data
by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-1 Updated 2011
Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador
by Paul Carrillo, Gabriela Aparicio, & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2011-2 Updated 2011
On Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty
by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-13
Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion
by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2011-3 Updated 2011
How China’s Employment Problems Became Trade Problems: China, Labour Law and the Rule of Law
by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-11
Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO, and Some Democratic Rights
by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-12
Herd Behavior and Contagion in Financial Markets
January 2010 by Marco Cipriani IIEP Working Paper 2010-1
A Post-Montesquieu Analysis of the WTO
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Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
November 2009 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-15
How Well Does ‘Core’ CPI Measure Long-Run Inflation
October 2013 by Tara Sinclair & Michael Bradley IIEP Working Paper 2009-13
How Well Does “Core” CPI Capture Permanent Price Changes?
by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2010-9 Updated 2010
The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women
by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2010-10 Updated 2010
Limited Partnership: Business, Government, Civil Society (NGOs) and the Public in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)
by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-28 Published October 2009 – Updated 2010
Climate Change and the World Trading System
Dr. Steve Charnovitz – GWU Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jisun Kim – Peterson Institute View the paper here. This event was made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. It is a discussion of the book Climate Change and the World Trading System,...
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
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Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2010-7 Updated 2010