The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) invites resource-rich countries to voluntarily publish the payments they receive from corporations and open their books to the scrutiny of certified auditors. In ...

Economists are fairly unanimous in the belief that a country's institutional environment plays a significant role in determining its prospects for economic development. This view derives both from economic theory and from ...

This thesis provides some new evidence on the determinants of firm level trade policy preferences. Using a firm and country level data set covering middle and low-income countries between the years of 2006 and 2010, this ...

Why would a state export warships that could be used against it? Strategic logic suggests that increasing another state's combat power is bad policy, as the United Kingdom discovered when it faced British-built destroyers ...

Micro-economic theory suggests both insurance market concentration and hospital market concentration may affect outcomes such as insurance premium and quality of care. Moreover, as concentration in the insurance market and ...

For a number of reasons, including enhanced economic growth, greater competitiveness for the export sector, and increased capital formation, governments might wish to undervalue their country's real exchange rate. However, ...

In the aftermath of the 1990s global financial crises, excessive foreign currency borrowing emerged as the common denominator in predicting the likelihood of a crisis as well as an economy's capacity to withstand one. ...

This thesis assesses whether marginal income tax rates for top earners have an effect on a country's GDP per capita growth. The paper builds upon previous research on the relationship between tax rates and economic growth ...

In 1931 James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "the American Dream" in his historical account of the United States in The Epic of America. Over generations, this premise has shaped the belief that all members of society, ...

Poverty remains the scourge of the modern world. Millions of people live in poverty despite the best efforts of the most powerful governments in the world. Due to a myriad of political and historical reasons, the most ...