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Review Essay: The Prince

The Pandemic Pain of Emerging Markets

As COVID-19 continues its global march, the whole world is paying the price for some countries' negligent and incompetent political leadership and the virtual breakdown of the rules-based multilateral

Optimising SARS-CoV-2 Pooled Testing for Low-Resource Settings

Several policy proposals to suppress severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been supporting mass individual testing in the USA and other countries.1, 2, 3 With restricted

National Fiscal Policies to Fight Recessions in US States

Countercyclical fiscal policy generally focuses on national economic downturns.

Labour Market Shocks and the Demand for Trade Protection: Evidence from Online Surveys

We study preferences for government action in response to layoffs resulting from different types of labour-market shocks.

Economics after Neoliberalism: Introducing the EfIP Project

The tools of contemporary economics are critical to developing a policy framework for "inclusive prosperity," which requires that we consider the whole distribution of outcomes and human prosperity br

Big Potential, Big Risks? Indian Capitalism, Economic Reform and Populism in the BJP Era

This paper reviews India’s aggregate economic performance under the Modi/BJP/NDA administration through the prism of political economy.

Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence From Delhi Elections

In 2010, we informed a random set of Delhi councilors, some ineligible for re-election in their current ward, that a newspaper would report on their performance shortly prior to the 2012 city election

Policy Decisions and Evidence Use among Civil Servants: A Group Decision Experiment in Pakistan

In a lab-in-field experiment with elite civil servants in Pakistan, we investigate whether groups outperform individuals in a two-staged task which requires effective use of data and evidence.

You Get What You Pay For: Sources and Consequences of the Public Sector Premium in Albania and Sri Lanka

We study the factors behind the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka, the group heterogeneity in the premium, the sources of public sector wage compression, and the impact of this compressio