Seminar and Conference Papers

Publications

In Search of Real Rigidities: by Gopinath, Gita; Itskhoki, Oleg; The closed and open economy literatures work on estimating real rigidities, but in parallel. We bring the two literatures together to shed light on this question. We use international price data and...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: April 2010 More

Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption? A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle: by Mullainathan, Sendhil; Brown, Jeffrey R.; Kling, Jeffrey R.; Wrobel, Marian V.; According to standard economic models, a risk-averse consumer who faces uncertainty about length-of-life should place a high value on life annuities that provide guaranteed income for life. Yet...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: January 5, 2008 More

Limited Attention and Income Distribution: by Mullainathan, Sendhil; Banerjee, Abhijit; Economists have long been interested in the idea that there is a direct circular relation between poverty and low productivity, and not just one that is mediated by market failures, usually in asset...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: January 2008 More

Exchange-Rate Policy Attitudes: Direct Evidence from Survey Data: by Frieden, Jeffry; Broz, J. Lawrence; Weymouth, Stephen; Analyses of the political economy of exchange-rate policy posit that firms and individuals in different sectors of the economy have distinct policy attitudes toward the level and the stability of the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: October 19, 2007 More

Iraq and the Fox Effect: An Examination of Polarizing Media and Public Support for International Conflict: by Baum, Matthew; Groeling, Tim; The causes and consequences of public support, or the lack thereof, for the overseas application of military force is a subject of longstanding scholarly debate. The most widely accepted...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: August 2007 More

The Policy Context of International Crimes: by Kelman, Herbert C.; Genocide, mass killing, torture, ethnic cleansing, and other gross violations of human rights are defined as war crimes or crimes against humanity under international law. To develop an adequate...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: October 2006 More

The Mysterious Case of Female Protectionism: Gender Bias in Attitudes Toward International Trade: by Hiscox, Michael; Burgoon, Brian; We examine new survey data on attitudes toward international trade showing that women are significantly less likely than men to support increasing trade with foreign nations. This gender gap remains...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: September 02, 2004 More

Deterrence and Regulatory Failure in Emerging Financial Markets: Comparing China and Russia: by Katharina Pistor and Chenggang Xu; Transition economies faced the formidable task of creating financial markets to ensure that enterprises gained access to external sources of funds under circumstances that were unfavorable for such...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: April 2003 More

The Political Origin of Finance: The Case of Federal Bankruptcy Law in the United States: by Howard Rosenthal and Erik Berglof; This paper draws on the legislative history of U.S. bankruptcy law to challenge the influential view that a country's legal origin and mechanism shape investor protection and ultimately financial...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: March 2003 More

Private Politics and Private Policy: A Theory of Boycotts: by David Baron; Public policies such as regulation, antitrust, and international trade are the result of public politics – a competition over who gets what with government the arbiter of that competition....; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

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