by Stephen B. Kaplan (The George Washington University)
Category: 2014
When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
October 2014
by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), Joan Hamory Hicks (UC-Berkeley, CEGA), Michael Kremer (Harvard University, NBER), Edward Miguel (UC-Berkeley, NBER), Amrita Ahuja, and Shawn Powers
Why Does Skill Intensity Vary Across Cities? Housing Cost and True Human Capital
August 2014
by Daniel A. Broxterman (George Washinton University) and Anthony M. Yezer (George Washington University)
The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policymaking: Economic Crises and Technocratic Governance
by Stephen B. Kaplan (The George Washington University)
Evaluating Forecasts of a Vector of Variables: A German Forecasting Competition
July 2014
by Hans Christian Müller-Dröge (Handelsblatt Newspaper), Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University), and Herman Stekler (The George Washington University)
The Energy Implications of City Size and Density
July 2014
by William Larson (Bureau of Economic Analysis), and Anthony M. Yezer (George Washington University)
Can Trade Policy Set Information Free
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University)
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) and M. Rodwan Abouharb (University London College)
Trade Imbalance: Juggling the Needs of Investors and the Public Interest in TTIP
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) and Rob Maxim (George Washington University)
Putting the Blame on Governments Why Firms and Governments have Failed to Advance the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (George Washington University) and Ian Higham (EIRIS)
What Can We Learn From Revisions to the Greenbook Forecasts?
May 2014
by Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University), Jeff Messina (The George Washington University) and Herman Stekler (The George Washington University)
Fiscal Discoveries and Yield Decouplings
May 2014
by Luis Catão (IMF), Ana Fostel (George Washington University), and Romain Ranciere (IMF)
Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry
May 2014
by Maggie X. Chen (The George Washington University) and Cathy Ge Bao (The George Washington University)
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
April 2014
by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University)
The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs
April 2014
byChao Wei (The George Washington University) and Shanjun Lei (Cornell University)
The Political Economy of Sovereign Borrowing Explaining the Policy Choices of Highly Indebted Governments
by Stephen B. Kaplan (George Washington University) and Kaj Thomsson (Maastricht University)
Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover Effects
February 2014
by Sarah Baird (George Washington University), J. Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania), Craig McIntosh (University of California, San Diego) and Berk Ozler (World Bank and University of Otago)
Okun’s Law in Real Time
January 2014
by Tara M. Sinclair (The George Washington University) and Amy Y. Guisinger (The George Washington University)
Rural Push, Urban Pull and… Urban Push? New Historical Evidence from Developing Countries
January 2014
by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Luc Christiaensen(Development Research Group, The World Bank), and Marina Gindelsky(George Washington University)
Transportation Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of Colonial Railroads on City Growth in Africa
January 2014
by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University) and Alexander Moradi(University of Sussex)
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya
January 2014
by Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Edward Kerby(London School of Economics and Political Science), and Alexander Moradi(University of Sussex)
Urbanization with and without Industrialization
October 2013
Rémi Jedwab (George Washington University), Douglas Gollin(University of Oxford) and Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston)
