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Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania
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Off Pitch: Football’s financial integrity weaknesses, and how to strengthen them
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-01)Men’s professional football is the biggest sport in the world, producing (by our estimate) US $33 billion a year. All is not well in the sector, however, with regular scandals raising questions about the role of money in ... -
Offshore Investment Funds: Monsters in Emerging Markets?
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-06)The 1997-98 financial crises in the emerging markets have brought to the foreground the concern about offshore investment funds and their possible role in exacerbating financial market volatility. Offshore investment funds ... -
On Globalization and the Concentration of Talent
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-10)We analyze how globalization affects the allocation of talent across competing teams in large matching markets. Assuming a reduced form of globalization as a convex transformation of payoffs, we show that for every economy ... -
On graduation from fiscal procyclicality
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-07)In the past, industrial countries have tended to pursue countercyclical or, at worst, acyclical fiscal policy. In sharp contrast, emerging and developing countries have followed procyclical fiscal policy, thus exacerbating ... -
On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-09)We analyze the effects of bans on exports at the level of 5000 products and show how our results can inform economic sanctions against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. We begin with characterizing export restrictions ... -
On the effectiveness of exchange rate interventions in emerging markets
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2014-09)We analyze the effectiveness of exchange rate interventions for a panel of 18 emerging market economies during the period 2003-2011. Using an error-correction model approach we find that on average intervention is effective ... -
On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-03)This paper is an econometric investigation of the determinants of the real value of the South African rand over the period 1984-2006. The results show a relatively good fit. As always with exchange rate equations, there ... -
On the Scaling Patterns of Infectious Disease Incidence in Cities
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-09)Urban areas with larger and more connected populations offer an auspicious environment for contagion processes such as the spread of pathogens. Empirical evidence reveals a systematic increase in the rates of certain ... -
One More Resource Curse: Dutch Disease and Export Concentration
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-05)Economists have long discussed the negative effect of Dutch disease episodes on the non-resource tradable sector as a whole, but little has been said on its impact on the composition of the non-resource export sector. This ... -
Opening Adaptation Windows onto Public Financial Management Reform Gaps in Mozambique
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-05)Governments across the world regularly pursue reforms that achieve less than was originally expected or is needed to make the state function better. The limits to reform success are often obvious in even the early days of ... -
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-11)This paper explores whether ordeal mechanisms can improve the targeting of aid programs to the poor ("self-targeting"). We first show that theoretically the impact of increasing ordeals is ambiguous: for example, time spent ... -
The Other Hand: High Bandwidth Development Policy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-09)Much of development policy has been based on the search for a short to do list that would get countries moving. In this paper I argue that economic activity requires a large and highly interacting set of public policies ... -
Overcoming Remoteness in the Peruvian Amazonia: A Growth Diagnostic of Loreto
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-10)Is there a tradeoff between environmental sustainability and economic development? If there is a place where that question can be approximated, that is Loreto. Located on the western flank of the Amazon jungle, Loreto is ... -
Overcoming the Challenges to the Implementation of Green Chemistry
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007)The Harvard-Yale-ACS GCI Green Chemistry Project is investigating the overall question of the circumstances under which firms can enact innovations that have both economic and environmental benefits, through a focused ... -
Overcoming the Global Despondency Trap: Strengthening Corporate Accountability in Supply Chains
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-10)This paper re-examines why global collective action problems persist, and how to overcome them. Drawing on 140 interviews with campaigners, politicians, and businesses in 10 European countries, it suggests that many activists ... -
Overcoming the limits of institutional reform in Uganda
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-10)This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms actively and consistently for three decades now, and has produced many laws, processes and structures that ... -
Overinvestment, Collateral Lending, and Economic Crisis
(1999-03)This paper presents a model in which a high growth economy becomes susceptible to a sudden financial crisis. In the model firms are motivated to over-invest because of government subsidies and then bear the burden of the ... -
Ownership and Managerial Competition: Employee, Customer, and Outside Ownership
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-06)This paper centers around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees' incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees' incentives in human capital ... -
Panama beyond the Canal: Using Technological Proximities to Identify Opportunities for Productive Diversification
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-03)The economy of Panama has thrived for more than a decade, based on a modern service sector on the activities surrounding the Canal. Panama has inserted its economy into global value chains, providing competitive services ...