Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- 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
- The New Institutionalism and Africa
- by Bates, Robert H.
- After briefly reviewing the new institutionalism, this article uses the history of political reform in Africa to test its key tenet: that power, if properly organized, is a productive resource. It...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: October 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
- Does the Sun Shine on the Corporate Bond Market?
- by Fruehwirth, Manfred; Sögner, Leopold
- After a series of papers showed, that weather has an impact on stock returns (postulated via
mood), this article is the first to study the impact of weather on the US corporate bond market.
We use...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: July 2011 More
- The World Economy in 2033
- by Cooper, Richard N.
- The record of long-term forecasting, particularly by economists, is not a glorious one. In a celebrated article, the great English economist John Maynard Keynes, writing in 1930 about “the economic...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: June 2010 More
