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Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment,…
Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights. John Gerard Ruggie , 2013, Book. "One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to protect the…
Labor Regulations and European Venture Capital. William R. Kerr, January 2013, Paper. "European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market…
Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor. Christine A. Desan, 2013, Book Chapter. "This chapter contains sections titled: Progress…
Law and the Political Economy of the World. David W. Kennedy, 2013, Paper. "The interpenetration of global political and economic life has placed questions of ‘political economy’…
The Political Economy of Clientelism. James Robinson, 2013, Paper. "In this paper, we argue that the political-commitment problem provides an explanation for why much income…
A Preliminary Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package. Joseph Aldy, Winter 2013, Paper. "The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…
Insurance and Taxation over the Life Cycle. Emmanuel Farhi, August 2012, Paper. "We consider a dynamic Mirrlees economy in a life-cycle context and study the optimal insurance…
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. James Robinson, March 2012, Book. Publisher's description: "Brilliant and engagingly written, Why…
Choosing the United States. Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin, March 1, 2012, Opinion. "A location decision is, in many respects, a referendum on a nation’s competitiveness. When a…