Category: Working Papers
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Statistical Versus Economic Output Gap Measures: Evidence from Mongolia
by Tara Sinclair (co-author Julia Bersch)
Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
August 2013
by Claudia Berg (George Washington University), M. Shahe Emran (IDP, Columbua University) and Forhad Shilpi (World Bank)
Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment
June 2013
by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University)
‘Re-righting business’: John Ruggie and the struggle to develop international human rights standards for transnational firms
July 2013
by Susan Ariel Aaronson (Department of Economics, GWU), and Ian Higham (London School of Economics)
Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production
June 2013
by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University)
Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production
June 2013
by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University)
Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization
May 2013
by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University)
US-Tyres: Upholding a WTO Accession Contract – Imposing Pain for Little Gain
April 2013
by Steve Charnovitz (George Washington University) and Bernard Hoekman (World Bank)
Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness: Policy Imperative and Corporate Opportunity
by Daniel C. Esty (Yale Law School) and Steve Charnovitz (George Washington University)
Driving Restrictions That Work? Quito’s Pico y Placa Program
by Paul Carrillo (co-author Arun Malik and Jiseon Yoo (IIEP and GWU)
Sanctuary Markets and Antidumping: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Exporters
How Well Does Core Inflation Capture Permanent Price Changes?
March 2013
by Michael D. Bradley (Department of Economics, GWU), Dennis W. Jansen Department of Economics (Texas A and M University), and Tara M. Sinclair (GWU)
Are Sunday Babies Doomed for Life? Measuring the Sunday-Born Achievement Gap in Ecuador
March 2013
by Gabriela Aparicio (co-author Paul E. Carrillo (GWU) and M. Shahe Emran (IPD, Columbia University)
Internet Governance and Internet Control: How to Safeguard Internet Freedom, Cicero Great Debate Paper
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
January 2013
by Stephen C. Smith (George Washington University), Verena Dill (Universität Trier), and Uwe Jirjahn (Universität Trier)
Product Switching in a Model of Learning
September 2012
by Olga Timoshenko
IIEP Working Paper 2012-10
Structural Change in Ghana 1960-2010
September 2012
by Remi Jedwab (GWU and LSE) and Robert Darko Osei (ISSER)
Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation? Evidence from the U.S. and the Netherlands
Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Macroeconomic Data Revisions
by Tara Sinclair
Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research
Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh
The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty
Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India
May 2012
by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Saudamini Das, University of Delhi)
Evaluating a Vector of the Fed’s Forecasts
The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China
by Yao Pan
“Drill, Baby, Drill!” The Correlates of “Energy Independence” Policy in the United States
March 2012
by Llewelyn Hughes (co-author: Francisco Flores-Macias, LCM Commodities)
A New Approach For Evaluating Economic Forecasts
Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment
Addicted to Oil: Implications for Climate Change Policy
by Steve Suranovic
Human Recognition among HIV-Infected Adults: Empirical Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya
The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development
Trust and Trustworthiness in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Experimental Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake
by Alberto Chong
Measurement of Human Recognition: A Methodology with Empirical Applications in India and Kenya
Poverty Measurement with Ordinal Data
by Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura
Where Did Identification Go?
by James Foster
Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review
Human Recognition in Economic Development: A Theoretical Model
Tanker Ownership in non-OECD countries and the Rise of Government-Owned Fleets
by Al Wood
Peltzman on Ice: Evidence on Compensating Behavior Using a Natural Experiment from Ice Hockey
by Alberto Chong
Making Trade and Human Rights Part of the Solution: WTO Strategies to link trade and Human rights in Conflict Zones
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
by Susan Aaronson
Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
A Fresh Approach to International Investment Rules
What Kind of Poverty Trap? An Investigation of Single and Multidimensional Traps With Ethiopian Household Panel Data
by Stephen C. Smith
Argentina: There and Back Again?
Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking Poverty Traps: Framework and Application to Ethiopian Household Panel Data
by Stephen C. Smith
Israel – Middle East North Africa (MENA) Trade: Is There Any Truth to the NEG Theory as Applied to the Israel-Jordan QIZs?
Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
by James Foster
Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy
Human Rights Provisions in FTAs
by Susan Ariel Aaronson
“How empowering Ghanaians can help Ghana avoid an oily mess”
The Big Five International Oil Companies as Responsible Stakeholders in the Global Economy
by Susan Aaronson
IIEP Working Paper 2010-5
Differences in Early GDP Component Estimates Between Recession and Expansion
Vietnam’s Transition to a Market Economy: The Use of NME Standards in Dumping and Countervailing Investigations: or What Happened to Me On the Way to Rome?
US-Regional Agreements with Latin America – The Long and Unsuccessful Saga of CAFTA and the FTAA
Polarization and the Decline of the Middle Class: Canada and the U.S.
by James Foster
IIEP Working Paper 2010-21
Climate Change, Uncertainty and Decision-Making
Permanent and Transitory Macroeconomic Relationships between China and the Developed World
by Tara Sinclair
Greed, Capitalism and the Financial Crisis
by Steve Suranovic
To Sell or Not to Sell: List Price, Transaction Price and Marketing Time in the Housing Market
by Paul Carrillo
Differences in PRC and Indian Textile and Apparel Industry Response to the Elimination of the MFA: Do Cultural Differences Matter?
Patent Protection and Strategic Delays in Technology Development: Implications for Economic Growth
Interdependence in Multinational Production Networks
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review
by Arun Malik & Stephen C. Smith
Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
Implementing Carbon Tariffs: A Fool’s Errand?
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
“Womb for Rent” – Gestational Surrogacy Contracts – A New Path for Outsourcing Service Contracts
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later
by James Foster
Third Country Effects on the Formation of Free Trade Agreements
Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing
Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data
Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador
On Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty
by James Foster
Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion
How China’s Employment Problems Became Trade Problems: China, Labour Law and the Rule of Law
by Susan Aaronson
Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO, and Some Democratic Rights
by Susan Aaronson
Herd Behavior and Contagion in Financial Markets
A Post-Montesquieu Analysis of the WTO
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
How Well Does ‘Core’ CPI Measure Long-Run Inflation
How Well Does “Core” CPI Capture Permanent Price Changes?
The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women
Limited Partnership: Business, Government, Civil Society (NGOs) and the Public in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Climate Change and the World Trading System
Dr. Steve Charnovitz – GWU
Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jisun Kim – Peterson Institute
View the paper here.
This event was made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. It is a discussion of the book Climate Change and the World Trading System, co-authored with Cary Clyde and Jisun Kim (Peterson Institute).
Friday, September 18, 2009
12:00 to 2:00pm
Suite 601M
1957 E St NW
Washington, DC 20052
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Jointly Evaluating GDP and Inflation Forecasts in the Context of the Taylor Rule
Can the Fed Predict the State of the Economy
Lazy Banks? Government Borrowing and Private Credit: Evidence from Developing Countries
Public Information and Household Expectations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians
Third-Country Effects in Multinational Production Networks
March 2009
by Maggie Chen
Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint and Entrepreneurial Development
Fiscal and Political Instability and the Growth Nexus in Developing Countries: An Application to Nigeria
by Fred Joutz
IIEP Working Paper 2009-11
Incentives for Adopting Clean Technologies: A Comparison of Policy Instruments in the Small Numbers Case
by Arun Malik
IIEP Working Paper 2009-10
Oil Prices, Fiscal Policy, and Venezuela’s Economic Growth
by Fred Joutz & Michael Bradley
IIEP Working Paper 2009-3
Greed and Capitalism: A Source of Evil or Salvation?
by Steve Suranovic
IIEP Working Paper 2009-12
Bootstrap Test for Stationarity
by Tara Sinclair
IIEP Working Paper 2008-18
Why Don’t Foreign Firms Cooperate in U.S. Antidumping Investigations?: An Empirical Analysis
Exploring the Link Between Oil Prices and Tanker Rates
by Fred Joutz
IIEP Working Paper 2008-15
Cultural Inheritance, Gender, and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from a Developing Economy
The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization
Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka
Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade?
Herd Behavior in Financial Markets: An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals
Trade Liberalization and Antidumping: Is There a Substitution Effect?
July 2008
by Michael Moore
Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries?
Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach
Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start on Smoking
Regional Economic Integration and Geographic Concentration of Multinational Firms
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms By Michael Moore and Maggie Chen
IIEP Working Paper 2008-2
Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries?
Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries? By Michael Moore
IIEP Working Paper 2008-1
Asymmetry in the Business Cycle: Revisiting the Friedman Plucking Model
Alternative Measures of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighborhoods
by Paul Carrillo
Long-run Causes of Comparative Development: An Interpretation of the Recent Evidence
A Match Made in the Corporate and Public Interests: Marrying Voluntary CSR Initiatives and the WTO
June 2007
by Susan Aaronson
Efficient Deliveries of Cash Transfers to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador
The Desirability of Forgiveness in Regulatory Enforcement
by Arun Malik
