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

Countries are just beginning to figure out how best to use and to protect various types of data that are used in AI

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

No nation alone can regulate artificial intelligence (AI) because it is built on crossborder data flows; countries are just beginning to figure out how best to......

Opening Up Argentina to the World: Some Strategic Observations

Argentina is at a decisive point with respect to economic policy, and nowhere is this more apparent than in its external outlook. Exports have never been the..

Migration and Online Job Search: A Gravity Model Approach

Most studies of migration focus on realized migration. Data on realized migration take substantial time to collect and are available to researchers and.....

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

As the United States has retreated from its lead role in globalization – first because of the 2008 financial crisis, and now under President Donald Trump’s lead........

Can Differences Deceive? The Case of “Foreclosure Externalities”

Foreclosure externalities, in which recent foreclosures proximate to a housing unit depress its sales price, are well accepted in the literature.......

Governance Spillovers of Labour Provisions in Free Trade Agreements

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...

Repression, Civil Conflict, And Leadership Tenure: A Case Study of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is a repressive regime, which Nursultan Nazarbayev has ruled since 1991 (CIA: 2017). Some analysts believe his approach to repression explains his...

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

This paper estimates the effect of social connectedness on crime across U.S. cities from 1960- 2009. Migration networks among African Americans from the South........

Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities

Economic agents are typically connected to others in multiple network relationships, and the architecture of one network could be shaped by connections in other.......