Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- 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...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- 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...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- 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...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- 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...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: January 18, 2008 More
- Normalizing Industrial Policy
- by Rodrik, Dani
- The theoretical case for industrial policy is a strong one. The market failures that industrial policies target—in markets for credit, labor, products, and knowledge—have long been at the core of...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: 2008 More
