Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series

Publications

All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

Varieties of Popular Nationalism in Modern Democracies: An Inductive Approach to Comparative Research on Political Culture: by Bonikowski, Bart; Contemporary nationalism is typically framed as an oppositional ideology that legitimates the struggles of ethnic minorities for political sovereignty or, alternatively, justifies the xenophobic...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2013 More

Political Budget Cycles and Intergovernmental Transfers in a Dominant Party Framework: Empirical Evidence from South Africa: by Kroth, Verena; This paper tests the theory of context-conditional political budget cycles in South Africa’s dominant party framework and demonstrates that the central government has both an incentive and the...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: November 2012 More

Moral Hazard in an Economic Union: Politics, Economics, and Fiscal Gimmickry in Europe: by Alt, James; Dreyer Lassen, David; Wehner, Joachim; This paper examines empirically how transparency of the budget process affects fiscal rules and incentives for fiscal gimmickry or creative accounting in the European Union. Using stock-flow...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2012 More

Does the Sun Shine Really Shine on the Financial Markets?: by Fruehwirth, Manfred; Sögner, Leopold; After a series of papers has provided—partially ambiguous—results on the impact of weather variables on stock (index) returns, this article studies the impact of weather on a wide variety of...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: June 2012 More

Socio-Psychological Motives of Socially Responsible Investors: by Puaschunder, Julia M.; The 2008/09 World Financial Crisis underlined the importance of social responsibility for the sustainable functioning of economic markets. Heralding an age of novel heterodox economic thinking, the...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: March 2012 More

Public Policy, Price Shocks, and Civil War in Developing Countries: by Carter, Brett; Bates, Robert H.; Those who study the role of agriculture in the political economy of development focus on government policy choices on the one hand and the impact of price shocks on the other. We argue that the two...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: January 2012 More

Discovering Diverse Mechanisms of Migration: The Mexico-U.S. Stream from 1970 to 2000: by Garip, Filiz; Migrants to the United States are a diverse population. This diversity, captured in various migration theories, is overlooked in empirical applications that describe a typical narrative for...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: December 2011 More

Repeat Migration and Cumulative Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in Mexico: by Garip, Filiz; To evaluate the distributional impact of remittances in origin communities, prior research studied how migrants’ selectivity by wealth varies with migration prevalence in the community or...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: December 2011 More

The Future of Convergence: by Rodrik, Dani; Novelists have a better track record than economists at foretelling the future. Consider then Gary Shteyngart’s timely comic novel Super Sad True Love Story (Random House, 2010), which provides a...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: October 2011 More

The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Rural Thailand: by Garip, Filiz; This paper studies the impact of internal migration and remittance flows on wealth accumulation and distribution in 22 rural villages in Nang Rong, Thailand. Using data from 943 households, the study...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: September 2010 More

Copyright © 2013 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, President and Fellows of Harvard College [ Contact the Webmaster ] [ Privacy Policy ]
1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138 | 617.495.4420 | Fax: 617.495.8292

About the Center

Center Research

Publications