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A Theory of Divided Government
(JSTOR, 1996)
This paper extends the spatial theory of voting to the case in which policy choices depend upon the interaction between executive and the legislature. Voters are strategic and to analyze equilibrium the authors apply ...
Delayed-response strategies in repeated games with observation lags
(Elsevier BV, 2014)
We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that ...
Trade Prices and the Global Trade Collapse of 2008–09
(Nature Publishing Group - Macmillan Publishers, 2012)
We document the behavior of trade prices during the Great Trade Collapse of 2008- 2009 using transaction-level data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. First, we find that differentiated manufactures exhibited marked ...
Public Sector Unionism without Collective Bargaining
(American Economic Association, 2013)
Seven states in the US outlaw public sector collective bargaining, but employees in these states still join unions. Public sector workers join unions in other states even when unions are unable to obtain collective ...
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War
(American Economic Association, 2013)
We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following CIA interventions, imports from the ...
The Structure of Tariffs and Long-Term Growth
(American Economic Association, 2010)
We show that the "skill bias" of a country's tariff structure is positively correlated with long-term per capita GDP growth. Testing for causal mechanisms, we find evidence consistent with the existence of real benefits ...
The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
(American Economic Association, 2011)
We show that current differences in trust levels within Africa can be traced back to the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. Combining contemporary individual-level survey data with historical data on slave shipments ...
The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas
(American Economic Association, 2010)
This paper provides an overview of the long-term impacts of the Columbian Exchange -- that is, the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, technologies, populations, and cultures between the New World and the Old World ...
Fertility and the Plough
(American Economic Association, 2011)
This paper provides evidence that the form of agriculture traditionally practiced—intensive plough agriculture versus shifting hoe agriculture—affected historic norms and preferences about fertility, and that these norms ...
The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
(American Economic Association, 2013)
We provide evidence that a tradition of village democracy is associated with the presence of national democracy today. We also show that a tradition of local democracy is associated with attitudes which are more supportive ...