Working Papers – Institute for International Economic Policy

Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses

August 2020. David E. Bloom, Michael Kuhn, Klaus Prettner, organized by Remi Jedwab. IIEP working paper 2020-17

Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times

August 2020. Guido Alfani, organized by Remi Jedwab. IIEP working paper 2020-16

The 1989 Influenza Pandemic and its Lessons for COVID-19

August 2020. Brain Beach, Karen Clay, Martin Saavedra, organized by Remi Jedwab. IIEP working paper 2020-15

The Economic Impact of the Black Death

June 2020. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama. IIEP working paper 2020-14

Pandemics, Poverty, and Social Cohesion: Lessons from the Past and Possible Solutions for COVID-19

June 2020. Remi Jedwab, Amjad M. Khan, Richard Damania, Jason Russ, Esha D. Zaveri. IIEP working paper 2020-13

A tale of two wage subsidies: The American and Australian fiscal responses to COVID-19

July 2020. Steven Hamilton. IIEP working paper 2020-12

Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers

June 2020. Barry Chiswick and RaeAnn Halenda Robinson. IIEP working paper 2020-11

Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth

June 2020. Elira Kuka and Na’ama Shenhav. IIEP working paper 2020-10

Medieval Cities Through the Lens of Urban Economic Theories

May 2020. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama. IIEP working paper 2020-9

A Plurilateral “Single Data Area” Is the Solution to Canada’s Data Trilemma

September 2019. Susan A. Aaronson and Patrick Leblond. IIEP working paper 2020-8

America’s uneven approach to AI and its consequences

April 2020. Susan A. Aaronson. IIEP working paper 2020-7

Data Governance, AI, and Trade: Asia as a Case Study

April 2020. Susan A. Aaronson. IIEP working paper 2020-6

Data Is Dangerous: Comparing the Risks That the United States, Canada and Germany See in Data Troves

April 2020. Susan A. Aaronson. IIEP working paper 2020-5

The Value of Reputation in Trade: Evidence from Alibaba

March 2020. Maggie X. Chen and Min Wu. IIEP working paper 2020-4

Human Capital Accumulation at Work: Estimates for the World and Implications for Development

February 2020. Remi Jedwab, Asif Islam, Paul Romer, and Robert Samaniego. IIEP working paper 2020-3

The Financial Center Leverage Cycle: Does it Spread Around the World?

February 2020. Graciela Laura Kaminsky, Leandro Medina, Shiyi Wang. IIEP working paper 2020-2

Mismatch in Online Job Search

February 2020. Tara M. Sinclair and Martha E. Gimbel. IIEP working paper 2020-1

Numerological Preferences, Timing of Births and the Long-term Effect on Schooling

October 2019. Cheng Huang, Xiaojing Ma, Shiying Zhang, Qingguo Zhao. IIEP working paper 2019-16

Search for Yield in Large International Corporate Bonds: Investor Behavior and Firm Responses

November 2019. Tomas Williams, Charles W. Calomiris, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio L. Schmukler. IIEP working paper 2019-15

Emerging Trade Battlefield with China: Export Competition and Firms’ Coping Strategies

October 2019. Yao Pan, Katariina Nilsson Hakkala. IIEP working paper 2019-14

Cities of Workers, Children or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities

August 2019. Remi Jedwab, Daniel Pereira, and Mark Roberts. IIEP working paper 2019-13

Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S

August 2019. Barry Chiswick and Christina Houseworth. IIEP working paper 2019-12

How Should We Measure City Size? Theory and Evidence Within and Across Rich and Poor Countries

August 2019. Remi Jedwab, Prakash Loungani, and Anthony Yezer. IIEP working paper 2019-11

The Economics of Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development

May 2019. Remi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, and Alexander Moradi. IIEP Working Paper 2019-10

Economic and Political Factors in Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Railroads and Roads in Africa 1960–2015

September 2017. Remi Jedwab and Adam Storeygard. IIEP Working Paper 2019-9.

The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

March 2019. Remi Jedwab and Adam Storeygard. IIEP Working Paper 2019-8.

Boom-Bust Capital Flow Cycles

May 2019. Graciela Laura Kaminsky. IIEP Working Paper 2019-7.

Drug Money and Bank Lending: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Money Laundering

March 2019. Tomas Williams, Pablo Slutzky, and Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas. IIEP Working Paper 2019-5.

Agricultural extension, intra-household allocation and malaria

March 2019. Yao Pan and Saurabh Singhal. IIEP Working Paper 2019-4.

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

March 2019. Stephen C. Smith, Alberto Posso and Lucia Ferrone. IIEP Working Paper 2019-2.

Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany

February 2019. Stephen C. Smith, Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser. IIEP Working Paper 2019-1.

A mHealth Voice Messaging Intervention to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Senegal

February 2019. Shauna Downs, Jessica Fanzo, Jozefina Kalaj, Joachim Sackey, and Stephen C. Smith. IIEP Working Paper 2019-6.

Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death

February 2019. Remi Jedwab, Noel D. Johnson, and Mark Koyama. IIEP Working Paper 2019-3.

What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Digital Protectionism?

December 2018. Susan Ariel Aaronson. IIEP Working Paper 2018-13.

Data is Different: Why the World Needs a New Approach to Governing Cross-border Data Flows

November 2018. Susan Ariel Aaronson. IIEP Working Paper 2018-10.

Is There a Kuznets Curve for Intra-City Earnings Inequality?

November 2018. Haixiao Wu. IIEP Working Paper 2018-9.

Private Sector Policymaking

October 2018. 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. Stephen C. Smith. IIEP Working Paper 2018-7.

How ETFs Amplify the Global Financial Cycle in Emerging Markets

January 2018. Updated: September 2018. Tomas Williams, Nathan Converse, and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati. IIEP Working Paper 2018-1.

An Examination of the Link between Urban Planning Policies and the High Cost of Housing and Labor

September 2018. Anthony Yezer, William Larson, Weihua Zhao. IIEP Working Paper 2018-6.

Modelling Economic Development: The Lewis Model Updated

September 2018. Carmel Chiswick . IIEP Working Paper 2018-5.

Do Fed Forecast Errors Matter?

August 2018. Tara Sinclair, Pao-Lin Tien, & Edward N. Gamber. IIEP Working Paper 2016-14.

Data Minefield: How AI is Prodding Governments to Rethink Trade in Data

April 2018. Susan Ariel Aaronson. IIEP Working Paper 2018-11.

Opening Up Argentina to the World: Some Strategic Observations

May 2018. Danny Leipziger. IIEP Working Paper 2018-4.

Migration and Online Job Search: A Gravity Model Approach

April 2018. Tara Sinclair and Mariano Mamertino. IIEP Working Paper 2018-3.

The Rise of Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Global Finance

July 2018. Stephen Kaplan. IIEP Working Paper 2018-2.

Can Differences Deceive? The Case of “Foreclosure Externalities”

July 2017. Anthony Yezer and Yishen Liu. IIEP Working Paper 2017-29.

Unilateral and Multilateral Sanctions: A Network Approach

November 2017. Sumit Joshi and Ahmed Saber Mahmud. IIEP Working Paper 2017-28.

Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities

November 2017. Sumit Joshi, Ahmed Saber Mahmud and Sudipta Sarangi. IIEP Working Paper 2017-27.

Migration Networks and Location Decisions: Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration

September 2017. Bryan Stuart and Evan Taylor. IIEP Working Paper 2017-26.

The Long-Run Effects of Recessions on Education and Income

August 2017. Bryan Stuart. IIEP Working Paper 2017-25.

The Effect of Social Connectedness on Crime: Evidence from the Great Migration

August 2017. Bryan Stuart and Evan Taylor. 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

Personal Privacy of HMDA in a World of Big Data

by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-21

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

What are We Talking About when We Discuss Digital Protectionism?

by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2017-9

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

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...

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...

Information Please: A Comprehensive Approach to Digital Trade Provisions in NAFTA 2.0

November 2017 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2018-12

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities

March 2017 by Olga A. Timoshenko (George Washington University) & Erick Sager (Bureau of Labor Statistics) IIEP Working Paper 2017-8

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities

February 2016 by Anthony Yezer (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-3

Learning, Prices, and Firm Dynamics

February 2016 by Olga Timoshenko (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2016-11

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...

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

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

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...

Water, U.S. Foreign Policy and American Leadership

October 2013 by Marcus DuBois King, Ph.D (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-11

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...

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

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?

March 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

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

Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh

June 2012 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-6

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

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