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I am an Atheist and a Muslim?: Ideological Competition and Accommodation in Central Asia
by Paul Froese
Why do religious and political ideologies sometimes produce social and political conflict and other times co-mingle peacefully? The answer must consider both the content of competing ideologies...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Published Date: April 2013 More
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
Popular Perceptions of Distributive Justice in China: Local and Regional Variations
by Whyte, Martin K.
The reform era launched in 1978 has produced dramatic changes in Chinese society. The dismantling of centrally planned socialism and the transformation of China into a market–based economy have...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Published Date: January 2006 More
Rethinking Equality and Inequality in the PRC
by Whyte, Martin K.
The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research has been in business nearly as long as the People's Republic of China, and the Center has played a key role in research on all aspects of the world's most...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Published Date: December 2005 More
Economic Accountability and Strategic Calibration in Japan's Liberal Democratic Party
by Barry C. Burden
I propose a new explanation for the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan using the notion of strategic calibration. Existing theories of LDP hegemony emphasize a favorable...
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Published Date: August 2005 More