Government & Politics
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Argentina vs the Vultures
Mar 3, 2015
Cecilia Nahon, Argentina’s Ambassador to Washington, DC., discusses the issues plaguing the Argentine government in it’s attempts to conclude debt restructuring.
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How India’s Traumatic Capitalism is Reshaping the World
Mar 2, 2015
A British national of Bengali origin, novelist Rana Dasgupta recently turned to nonfiction to explore the explosive social and economic changes in Delhi starting in 1991, when India launched a series of profoundly transformative economic reforms.
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What does Yanis Varoufakis want?
Feb 26, 2015
With the approval of the reform proposals by the Greek government, the Eurozone has returned to calmer waters. But it is only a brief interlude.
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Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
Feb 13, 2015
Fresh from discussions at the UN regarding the Argentinian debt crisis, Institute grantee Kevin Gallagher tells us about his new book and how developing countries can look for opportunity amidst modern financial obstacles.
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The Brace is On
Feb 3, 2015
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Forging Fresh Tools from the Past
Feb 1, 2015
John Smithin argues that we need to rethink the “consensus” with tools old and new.
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Much Ado About Cyber Security
Jan 5, 2015
Private data is leaked more and more in our society. Wikileaks, Facebook, and identity theft are just three examples. Network defenses are constantly under attack from cyber criminals, organized hacktivists, and even disgruntled ex-employees.
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China's Regulation Problem
Jan 4, 2015
Repression in China today is at its most severe point since the aftermath of 1989. David Wu discusses the tensions inherent in a one-party state which is struggling to aspire toward a more predictable rule of law.
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Years granted:
2015
Collective and Cumulative Careers: Foundations for Sustainable Prosperity
This research project posits that increasing income concentration and erosion of the middle class are interrelated results of a change in the dominant corporate resource-allocation regime from “retain-and-reinvest” to “downsize-and-distribute,” manifested by massive distributions to shareholders and the disappearance of “collective and cumulative” careers.
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Years granted:
2015
Central Banks, Crises, and Income Distribution
This research project studies the evolution of monetary policy since the financial crisis, as regards to changes in implementation mechanisms and use of conventional/unconventional instruments of monetary policy, as well as its mpact on macroeconomic variables, including income distribution.
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Years granted:
2015
Distributional National Accounts
The objective of this proposal is to build distributional statistics of income and wealth consistent with national accounts aggregates for the United States.
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Years granted:
2015
Financial Innovation and Central Banking in China: a Money View
This research project develops a “Money View” analysis of the recent evolution of China’s financial system.
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Years granted:
2015
Causal Analysis in Economics: Philosophical Underpinnings and Econometric Tools for Non-Standard Settings
This research project addresses the problem of inferring causal relationships in economics. It investigates the philosophical roots of the problem and develops econometric tools which take into account the complexity of economic systems.
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Working Paper Series
Beyond Market Failures The Market Creating and Shaping Roles of State Investment Banks
Jan 2015
Recent work has highlighted the need for innovation investments to be understood through a mission oriented approach rather than a market failure one (Foray et al. 2012). However, this work has only focused on state agencies, such as DARPA, overlooking the role of public financial institutions such as state investment banks.
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Years granted:
2015
Economic Policy and the Performativity of Economic Models: Looking at the Intersection between Theory and Policy
This research project aims at analyzing the role of economic models in economic policy-making. Specifically, we investigate the impact of CGE models, related to the TTIP debate, and potential output models, related to fiscal policy in the EU, on politicial decision-making and public debate.