Seminar and Conference Papers

Publications

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

Coalition Parties versus Coalitions of Parties: How Electoral Agency Shapes the Political Logic of Costs and Benefits: by Bawn, Kathleen; Rosenbluth, Frances; This paper argues that governments formed from post–election coalitions (majority coalition governments in PR systems) and pre–election coalitions (majority parties in SMD systems) aggregate the...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

Domestic Politics of International Financial Rescues: Congressional Voting on Bailouts in the 1990s: by Broz, J. Lawrence; In the 1990s, the American Executive organized financial rescues of Mexico and several Asian economies. These rescues ("bailouts" to detractors) were controversial in Congress, where...; Publication Type: Conference Paper-WCFIA Conference; Published Date: November 2002 More

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