Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism
- by Hall, Peter A.; Thelen, Kathleen
- Comparative political economists have become deeply interested in processes of institutional change, and especially in those taking place in response to the opening of world markets associated with...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: August 2007 More
- Nominations for Sale
- by Shepsle, Kenneth A.; Console-Battilana, Silvia
- Models of nomination politics in the US often
find "gridlock" in equilibrium because of the super-majority
requirement in the Senate for the confo
rmation of presidential nominees. A...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: October 2007 More
- Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death
- by King, Gary; Lu, Ying
- Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas
without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along
with the cause of death...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: September 22, 2007 More
- Extracting Systematic Social Science Meaning from Text
- by King, Gary; Hopkins, Daniel
- We develop two methods of automated content analysis that give approximately unbiased estimates
of quantities of theoretical interest to social scientists. With a small sample of documents
hand coded...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: September 16, 2007 More
- Currency Choice and Exchange Rate Pass-through
- by Gopinath, Gita; Itskhoki, Oleg; Rigobon, Roberto
- A central assumption of open economy macro models with nominal rigidities relates
to the currency in which goods are priced, whether there is so-called producer currency
pricing or local currency...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: September 2007 More
