Working Papers
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- Do NGOs Make a Difference?
- The Political Economy of Conditionality
- Mixture Models and Convergence Clubs
- Stabilizing the International Financial System and Financing Development
- Did the Colonial Powers Pick the Economic Winners?
- Using NAICS to Identify National Industry Cluster Templates for Applied Regional Analysis
- A Classroom Experiment on Exchange Rate Determination with Purchasing Power Parity
- The Economics of a Centralized Judiciary
- Kelo, Cuno, and the Broken Window
- The Dynamics of Patent Citations
- Patent Protection, Creative Destruction, and Generic Entry in Pharmaceuticals
- The Value of Certainty in Intellectual Property Rights
- Bargaining in the Shadow of Precedent
- Credibility and Credulity
- Limited Arbitrage, Segmentation, and Investor Heterogeneity (2006)
- A General-Equilibrium Analysis of Public Policy for Pharmaceutical Prices
- The Portfolio Allocation Effects of Investor Sentiment about the Ability of Managers to Beat the Market
- Effects of Female Literacy in Villages in Rural Rajasthan
- Does Post-Graduate Education Affect Women’s Investment in Health
- Intergenerational Strategic Behavior and Crowding Out in a General Equilibrium Model
- Closed-end Fund Discounts and Interest Rates
- Sentiment and the Interpretation of News about Fundamentals
- Noise-trading, Costly Arbitrage, and Asset Prices
- Donor Influence in Multilateral Development Banks
- Noise-trader Risk: Does it Deter Arbitrage, and Is it Priced
- Learning by Suing
- How Do Political Changes Influence U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocations
- World Bank Lending and Regulation
- Aid and Regulation
- Why Only Some Industries Unionize
- Short Selling Behavior When Fundamentals are Known
- Ricardian Equivalence Survives Strategic Behavior
- Growth Econometrics
- Labor Market Informalization and Social Policy
- Asset Depletion Among the Poor
- Is it Really the Fisher Effect?
- Arbitrage in Closed-end Funds: New Evidence
- Integrity, Shame and Self-Rationalization
- A Continuous State Space Approach to “Convergence by Parts”
- Limited Arbitrage, Segmentation, and Investor Heterogeneity (2003)
- World Bank Independence
- The Option Value of Patent Litigation
- Convergence Among the U.S. States
- Reassessing the Role of Constituency in Congressional Voting
- On the Geometry of Constant Returns
- Wealth Effects of Supervisory Goodwill Litigation
- Share-Price Reaction to Supervisory Goodwill Litigation
- A Nonparametric Analysis of Income Convergence Across the US States
- Price Collusion in an Infinitely Repeated Hotelling Duopoly
- Foreign Aid and Domestic Politics
- Role of Bank Branch Locations in Minority Lending
- Sovereignty and NGOs
- The Effect of Temporary Nursing Services on the Supply of Labor to Nursing
- Temporary Employment Decisions of Registered Nurses
- The Overburdened Consumer
- Aid and Sovereignty
- Social Capability and Economic Development
- A Test of Normality Assumption in the Ordered Probit Model
- What You Know or Who You Know
- World Bank Borrower Relations and Project Supervision
- The Supply of Labor to Full-time and Part-time Nursing
- Cosmopolitans and Locals Among Rural Emergency Service Volunteers
- Women Volunteering
- Zakat and Inequality
- Rural Emergency Service Volunteers
- Volunteer Emergency Squads and Their Communities
- The Sexual Division of Leadership in Volunteer Emergency Medical Squads
- Volunteers and Their Communities: A Comparative Analysis of Volunteer Firefighters
- Politics, Geography and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries
- Public Industrial Enterprises and Economic Growth
- Convergence and Growth Amongst Rich and Poor
- Convergence, Diffusion and Growth
- Work Without Wages
- An Islamic Perspective on Inequality in Pakistan
- Inequality in Pakistan, 1984-85 to 1987-88
- Quesnay's Tableau Economique
- Distribution, Inflation, and Public Industrial Enterprises
- The Impact of Land Concentration on Rural Schooling
- Macroeconomic Policies and the Informal Sector
- Do Fringe Benefits Cause Layoffs?
- Industrialization, Distortions and Growth in Developing Countries
- Macroeconomics of Domestic Terms of Trade
- Unproductive Expenditure in Manufacturing
- The Determinants of European Direct Investment in the United States, 1961-1987
- Inflation, Growth, and Import Bottlenecks in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector
- Wage and Salary Inequality in U.S. Manufacturing, 1973-1981
- Disaggregating Rates of Return to Education
- Specification and Estimation of a Generalized Corner Solution Model
- The Income Redistribution Impact of Financing Higher Education in Pakistan
- Optimal Implicit Contracts and the Choice Between Layoffs and Work Sharing
- How Budget Deficits Cause Trade Deficits
- Child Brides in India
- The Determinants of Private High School Attendance
- Private High School Choice and the Returns to Private Schooling