Working Papers

Chinese Provincial Macroeconomic Data Revisions

September 2013 by Shirley Hsuan Hsieh IIEP Working Paper 2013-09

Statistical Versus Economic Output Gap Measures: Evidence from Mongolia

by Tara Sinclair (co-author Julia Bersch) IIEP Working Paper 2013-07

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) IIEP Working Paper 2013-08

Financial Innovation, Collateral and Investment

June 2013 by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-18

‘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) IIEP Working Paper 2013-5

Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production

June 2013 by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-17

Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The Gains from Multinational Production

June 2013 by Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) and Maggie Chen (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-13

Leverage and Default in Binomial Economies: A Complete Characterization

May 2013 by Ana Fostel (George Washington University) and John Geanakoplos (Yale University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-16

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) IIEP Working Paper 2013-12

Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness: Policy Imperative and Corporate Opportunity

by Daniel C. Esty (Yale Law School) and Steve Charnovitz (George Washington University) IIEP Working Paper 2013-14

Driving Restrictions That Work? Quito’s Pico y Placa Program

by Paul Carrillo (co-author Arun Malik and Jiseon Yoo (IIEP and GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2013-01

Sanctuary Markets and Antidumping: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Exporters

March 2013 by Michael O. Moore (GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2013-03

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) IIEP Working Paper...

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) IIEP Working Paper 2013-02

Internet Governance and Internet Control: How to Safeguard Internet Freedom, Cicero Great Debate Paper

by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2013-10

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) IIEP Working Paper 2013-15

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) IIEP Working Paper 2012-12

Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation? Evidence from the U.S. and the Netherlands

August 2012 by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2012-11

Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Macroeconomic Data Revisions

by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2012-9

Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research

June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith (co-author Arun S. Malik, IIEP and GWU) IIEP Working Paper 2012-8

Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh

June 2012 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-6

The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty

June 2012 by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2012-7

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) IIEP Working Paper 2012-6

Evaluating a Vector of the Fed’s Forecasts

March 2012 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2012-3

The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China

by Yao Pan IIEP Working Paper 2012-5

“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) IIEP Working Paper 2012-4

A New Approach For Evaluating Economic Forecasts

March 2012 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2012-2

Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment

February 2012 by Ana Fostel IIEP Working Paper 2012-1

Addicted to Oil: Implications for Climate Change Policy

by Steve Suranovic IIEP Working Paper 2011-22

Human Recognition among HIV-Infected Adults: Empirical Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

November 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-11

The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development

November 2011 by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2011-21

Trust and Trustworthiness in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Experimental Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake

by Alberto Chong IIEP Working Paper 2011-17

Measurement of Human Recognition: A Methodology with Empirical Applications in India and Kenya

September 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-10

Poverty Measurement with Ordinal Data

by Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura IIEP Working Paper 2011-16

Where Did Identification Go?

by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-20

Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review

September 2011 by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-8

Human Recognition in Economic Development: A Theoretical Model

by Tony Castleman IIEP Working Paper 2011-9 Updated 2012

Tanker Ownership in non-OECD countries and the Rise of Government-Owned Fleets

by Al Wood IIEP Working Paper 2011-7

Peltzman on Ice: Evidence on Compensating Behavior Using a Natural Experiment from Ice Hockey

by Alberto Chong IIEP Working Paper 2011-12

Making Trade and Human Rights Part of the Solution: WTO Strategies to link trade and Human rights in Conflict Zones

by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-33

Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?

by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-13

Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?

by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-34

A Fresh Approach to International Investment Rules

August 2011 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-35

What Kind of Poverty Trap? An Investigation of Single and Multidimensional Traps With Ethiopian Household Panel Data

by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2010-4

Argentina: There and Back Again?

June 2011 by Michael Moore IIEP Working Paper 2011-6

Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking Poverty Traps: Framework and Application to Ethiopian Household Panel Data

by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-4

Israel – Middle East North Africa (MENA) Trade: Is There Any Truth to the NEG Theory as Applied to the Israel-Jordan QIZs?

May 2011 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2011-25

Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-18

Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy

April 2011 by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2011-19

Human Rights Provisions in FTAs

by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-31

“How empowering Ghanaians can help Ghana avoid an oily mess”

March 2011 by Susan Ariel Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2011-32

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

February 2011 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2011-5

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?

January 2011 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2011-24

US-Regional Agreements with Latin America – The Long and Unsuccessful Saga of CAFTA and the FTAA

January 2011 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2011-23

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

by Stephen C. Smith & Arun Malik IIEP Working Paper 2010-24 Updated May 2011

Permanent and Transitory Macroeconomic Relationships between China and the Developed World

by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2010-8

Greed, Capitalism and the Financial Crisis

by Steve Suranovic IIEP Working Paper 2010-22

To Sell or Not to Sell: List Price, Transaction Price and Marketing Time in the Housing Market

by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2010-23

Differences in PRC and Indian Textile and Apparel Industry Response to the Elimination of the MFA: Do Cultural Differences Matter?

September 2010 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2010-31

Patent Protection and Strategic Delays in Technology Development: Implications for Economic Growth

September 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-19

Interdependence in Multinational Production Networks

September 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-20

Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review

by Arun Malik & Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2010-27

Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?

June 2010 by Ana Fostel IIEP Working Paper 2010-18

Implementing Carbon Tariffs: A Fool’s Errand?

June 2010 by Michael O. Moore IIEP Working Paper 2010-2

The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

June 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-16

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

June 2010 by Maggie X. Chen IIEP Working Paper 2010-17

“Womb for Rent” – Gestational Surrogacy Contracts – A New Path for Outsourcing Service Contracts

May 2010 by Joseph Pelzman IIEP Working Paper 2010-30

The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later

by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-14

Third Country Effects on the Formation of Free Trade Agreements

April 2010 by Maggie Chen IIEP Working Paper 2008-16

Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing

April 2010 by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-15

Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data

by Stephen C. Smith IIEP Working Paper 2011-1 Updated 2011

Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador

by Paul Carrillo, Gabriela Aparicio, & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2011-2 Updated 2011

On Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty

by James Foster IIEP Working Paper 2010-13

Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion

by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2011-3 Updated 2011

How China’s Employment Problems Became Trade Problems: China, Labour Law and the Rule of Law

by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-11

Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO, and Some Democratic Rights

by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-12

Herd Behavior and Contagion in Financial Markets

January 2010 by Marco Cipriani IIEP Working Paper 2010-1

A Post-Montesquieu Analysis of the WTO

January 2010 by Steve Charnowitz IIEP Working Paper 2010-3

Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam

November 2009 by Stephen Smith & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-15

How Well Does ‘Core’ CPI Measure Long-Run Inflation

October 2009 by Tara Sinclair & Michael Bradley IIEP Working Paper 2009-13

How Well Does “Core” CPI Capture Permanent Price Changes?

by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2010-9 Updated 2010

The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women

by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2010-10 Updated 2010

Limited Partnership: Business, Government, Civil Society (NGOs) and the Public in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)

by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-28 Published October 2009 – Updated 2010

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,...

Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms

August 2009 by Maggie Chen & Michael Moore IIEP Working Paper 2009-17

Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

by Sarah Baird IIEP Working Paper 2010-7 Updated 2010

Jointly Evaluating GDP and Inflation Forecasts in the Context of the Taylor Rule

June 2009 by Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2008-5

Can the Fed Predict the State of the Economy

June 2009 by Fred Joutz & Tara Sinclair IIEP Working Paper 2008-6

Lazy Banks? Government Borrowing and Private Credit: Evidence from Developing Countries

June 2009 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-9

Public Information and Household Expectations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

April 2009 by Paul Carrillo & Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-8

The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians

April 2009 by Maggie Chen IIEP Working Paper 2009-5

Third-Country Effects in Multinational Production Networks

March 2009 by Maggie Chen IIEP Working Paper...

Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World

February 2009 by Nora Lustig IIEP Working Paper 2009-4

Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms

February 2009 by Michael Moore and Maggie Chen IIEP Working Paper 2008-2

Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint and Entrepreneurial Development

January 2009 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2009-2

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

December 2008 by Michael Moore IIEP Working Paper 2008-17

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

December 2008 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2008-12

The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization

December 2008 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2008-11

Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka

December 2008 by Shahe Emran IIEP Working Paper 2008-10

Efficient Deliveries of Cash Transfers to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador

April 2007 by Paul Carrillo IIEP Working Paper 2008-8

The Desirability of Forgiveness in Regulatory Enforcement

by Arun Malik IIEP Working Paper 2008-14

Reality Bites: The Myth of Labor Rights as a Non-trade Issue

by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-29 (Published in 2006)

Minding Our Business Corporate Social Responsibility and the Failure to Develop Universal Global Rules to Govern Investors and States

by Susan Aaronson IIEP Working Paper 2010-26 Published June 2002