Publications
WCFIA Publications
- Should Capital Controls Be Banished?
- by Cooper, Richard N.
- Unless certain conditions are met, serious misallocation could occur if capital movements are fully liberalized; and considerable vulnerability is created for economies where the exchange rate is...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: April 1999 More
- Key Currencies After the Euro
- by Cooper, Richard N.
- This paper will address various issues. It first takes up the reasons why national currencies might be used internationally, and provides some data on the international role of currencies today, and...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: November 1997 More
- Technological Revolutions
- by Caselli, Francesco
- I present a simple model of technological revolutions. A technological revolution is the introduction of a new generation of machines that can only be operated by workers who have learned a set of...
- Publication Type: Published Paper
- Published Date: March 1999 More
- Long Run Political Convergence? A State-by-State Analysis
- by Blomberg, Brock S.
- This paper constructs and examines state level political ideology from 1789 to 1996 to sort out the long run political trends of the United States. The purpose is twofold: First, to contrast a...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: January 1998 More
- Key Issues in Congressional Foreign Policy Making
- by Bereuter, Doug
- I have been asked to speak today about the role of Congress in the formulation of foreign policy. This certainly is a broad mandate, but I will do my best to address the issue. Let me say at the...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: March 1999 More
- Conflict in Time and Space
- by Tucker, Richard
- Scholars in international relations (IR) are increasingly using time-series cross-section data to analyze models with a binary dependent variable (BTSCS models). IR scholars generally employ a...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: November 1997 More
- Ethnicity, Capital Formation, and Conflict
- by Bates, Robert H.
- Ethnicity plays an ambiguous role in the great transformation. On the one hand, ethnicity creates: by providing incentives that organize the flow of resources across generations, it provides the...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: October 1999 More