Disruptive Technologies and their Implications for Economic Policy: Some Preliminary Observations
Working paper by Danny Leipziger & Victoria Dodev (George Washington University)
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Systemic and Idiosyncratic Sovereign Debt Crises
The theoretical literature on sovereign defaults has focused on adverse shocks to debtors’ economies, suggesting that defaults are of an idiosyncratic nature. Still, sovereign debt crises are also of...
The Value of Reputation in Trade: Evidence from Alibaba
by Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University) & Min Wu (George Washington University)
Political economy theory expects politicians to use budget decits to engineer an election-timed boom, known as the political business cycle.
Testing the Association between Foreclosure and Nearby House Values: Can Differences Deceive?
Foreclosure externalities, in which the number of recent foreclosures proximate to a housing unit depress its sales price, are well accepted in the literature.
Partisan Technocratic Cycles in Latin America
Given their powerful position in presidential cabinets, technocrats are an important transmission mechanism for explaining policy choices in Latin America,
Globalization in the Periphery: Monetary Policy: What is Gained, What is Lost
There is a long-standing debate on the benefits and drawbacks of financial globalization. Among the benefits,
The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs
During the recent economic crisis, many countries have adopted stimulus programs designed to achieve two goals: to stimulate economic activity in lagging
Travel Time Use Over Five Decades
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys in the U.S. to document trends in travel time uses.
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Bahrain
Bahrain is a textbook case study of how government officials can rely on repression to stay in power over decades.
Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry
How do domestic firms respond to the threat of foreign competition?This paper quantifies the threat of foreign competition by exploring news
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Argentina
Argentina has been a vibrant democracy for over thirty years, but the country continues to grapple with the legacy of violent repression. Government officials
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure; The Thai Case Study: 2006-2014
The global press tells the story of Thailand as dialectic--a power struggle between two groups, the Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts, who have been at odds
At the Intersection of Cross‐Border Information Flows and Human Rights: TPP as a Case Study
Malaysia is 8,402 mi. from Silicon Valley and has little in common with the locus of the Internet universe. Nonetheless, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
Countries around the world use electoral quotas to ensure that underrepresented groups gain legislative representation. Despite the fact that electoral quotas
The EMG Distribution and Aggregate Trade Elasticities
When rm-level productivity is not assumed to be Pareto distributed, new trade models predict that micro-data such as sales distributions determine
At the Intersection of Cross-Border Information Flows and Human Rights: TPP as a Case Study
Malaysia is 8,402 mi. from Silicon Valley and has little in common with the locus of the Internet universe. Nonetheless, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
Repression, Civil Conflict, and Leadership Tenure; The Sri Lanka Case Study
Sri Lanka has a long history of ethnic tensions among individuals and groups who identify by caste, religion, and clan.1 While Sri Lanka has been a democracy
Working by Design: New Ideas to Empower U.S. and European Workers in TTIP
The 21st century has not been the best of times for U.S. and European workers. They have been buffeted by job losses, underemployment, and economic insecurity.
Can Transparency in Supply Chains Advance Labor Rights? Mapping of Existing Efforts
Today, information is currency; it facilitates productivity, exchange, technology and trade. Information is also the building block of the digital economy
Can Transparency in Supply Chains Advance Labor Rights? Mapping of Existing Efforts
Supply chain initiatives wed government mandates delineating the “right to know” with corporate governance and voluntary corporate social
Online Job Search and Migration Intentions Across EU Member States
Most studies of migration focus on realized migration. In this study we instead focus on revealed preference of job seekers actively searching for a job
Costly Screening, Self-Selection, Fraud, and the Organization of Credit Markets
This paper analyzes a credit market that includes a costly, universal and imperfect screening technology with both type I and type II errors and borrower
This chapter examines two types of fragility, environmental and governmental, and their interactions. Increasing environmental fragility, resulting from both
Climate Preferences, Obesity, and Unobserved Heretogeneity in Cities
Some sources of heterogeneity among cities, i.e. age, gender, race, income, and education, have been the object of substantial inquiry. The reasons are obvious...