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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.

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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
International Migration at a Crossroads: Will Demography Change Politics before Politics Impedes Demographic Change?
by Hochschild, Jennifer L.
No self-respecting political scientist will accept the cliché that demography is destiny; political structures, practices, and leaders intervene between raw numbers and electoral or policy outcomes....
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: June 2010 More
Does the SDR Have a Future?
by Cooper, Richard N.
This article will briefly address the future prospects for the dollar as an internationally acceptable denomination for assets, and then discuss the several ways in which the SDR or some other...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 2010 More
Europe’s Emissions Trading System
by Cooper, Richard N.
This paper describes and evaluates the system for trading CO2 emission permits introduced by the European Union to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to help abate climate change. ...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 2010 More
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
by Williamson, Jeffery G.
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence—they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: August 2009 More
How globalization shapes individual risk perceptions and policy preferences
by Walter, Stefanie; Maduz, Linda
How does globalization affect individuals and their perceptions and policy preferences? This paper uses new developments in international trade theory to propose a new way of conceptualizing and...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: August 2009 More
Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
by Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffery G.
Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems to have dealt with the volatility better. Why? This paper explores Australian...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: July 2009 More
The Human Cost of Economic Crises
by Alexander, Marcus; Harding, Matthew C.; Lamarche, Carlos
Policy makers rely on a mix of government spending and tax cuts to address the imbalances in the economy during an economic crisis, by promoting price stability and renewed economic growth. However,...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 22, 2009 More
The Estimated Trade Effects of the Euro: Why Are They Below Those From Historical Monetary Unions Among Smaller Countries?
by Frankel, Jeffrey
Andy Rose (2000), followed by many others, has used the gravity model of bilateral trade on a large data set to estimate the trade effects of monetary unions among small countries. The finding has...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 13, 2009 More
Addressing the Leakage/Competitiveness Issue in Climate Change Policy Proposals
by Frankel, Jeffrey
We will likely see increasing efforts to minimize leakage of carbon to non-participating countries and to address concerns on behalf of the competitiveness of carbon-intensive industry....
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: April 2009 More