Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- The Dilemmas of Contemporary Social Science
- by Hall, Peter A.
- For two hundred years, social science has provided the lens through which people view society and the visions animating most demands for political reform – at least since Adam Smith’s efforts to...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: September 2007 More
- Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment
- by Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg
- We study a two-country two-sector model of international trade in which one sector produces
homogeneous products while the other produces differentiated products. The differentiated-
product industry...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: August 17, 2007 More
- Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa
- by Aghion, Philippe; Braun, Matias; Fedderke, Johannes
- Using three different panel data sets, we show: (i) that mark-ups are significantly higher in South African manufacturing industries than they are in corresponding industries worldwide; (ii) that...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: August 2007 More
- Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
- by Robinson, James A.; Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Yared, Pierre
- This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: August 2007 More
