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Earning from History: Financial Markets and the Approach of World Wars
by Ferguson, Niall
We are living through a paradox—or so it seems. Since September 11, 2001, according to a number of neo-conservative commentators, America has been fighting World War III (or IV, if you like to give...
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Published Date: February 17, 2008 More
Can Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?
by Rogoff, Kenneth S.; Rossi, Barbara; Chen, Yu-chin
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between exchange rate ‡fluctuations and world commodity price movements. Taking into account parameter instability, we demonstrate surprisingly robust...
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Published Date: February 14, 2008 More
Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang
by Gopinath, Gita; Aguiar, Mark; Amador, Manuel
We characterize optimal taxation of foreign capital and optimal sovereign debt policy in a small open economy where the government cannot commit to policy, seeks to insure a risk averse domestic...
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Published Date: February 5, 2008 More
Economic Aspects of the Cold War, 1962-1975
by Cooper, Richard N.
US objectives during the Cold War were to prevent Soviet attacks on the United States and its allies and to prevent the spread of communism as a political and economic system to other...
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Published Date: February 2008 More
Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India
by Iyer, Lakshmi; Banerjee, Abhijit
Social scientists have long emphasized the importance of institutions in nurturing economic growth and development. Douglass C. North defines institutions as the "rules of the game in a...
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Published Date: February 2008 More
Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
by Williamson, Jeffery G.
W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and...
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Published Date: February 2008 More
Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Prejudice?
by Pande, Rohini; Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; Topalova, Petia
Female leadership remains strikingly low in most democracies, and voter preferences are often suggested as a likely explanation. In this paper, we present experimental evidence from India which...
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Published Date: February 2008 More
The Essential Role of Pair Matching in Cluster-Randomized Experiments, Application to the Mexican Universal Health Insurance
by King, Gary; Imai, Kosuke; Nall, Clayton
A basic feature of many field experiments is that investigators are only able to randomize clusters of individuals—such as households, communities, firms, medical practices, schools, or...
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Published Date: January 18, 2008 More
Regionalization and Retrenchment: The Impact of European Integration on the Welfare State
by Beckfield, Jason
This paper demonstrates the utility of a sociology of regional integration by addressing two central questions that have sparked much debate over the welfare state. Is there evidence of...
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Published Date: 2008 More
Social Capital and Migration: How Do Similar Resources Lead to Divergent Outcomes?
by Garip, Filiz
This paper investigates how migrant social capital differentially influences individuals’ migration and cumulatively generates divergent outcomes for communities. To combine the fragmented findings...
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Published Date: January 2008 More