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Advancing equity in climate investments with catalytic capital
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)As Prime Coalition nears a decade of investment activity, it is a critical moment in time for the organization to reflect on its unique position in the catalytic capital climate investing space, assess its impact to date ... -
AI for the People: The Use of AI to Improve Government Performance
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-04)7:00 AM, the alarm goes off. 8:00 AM, you have a cup of coffee, scan the news, and check your email on your phone. During that single hour you have interacted with artificial intelligence (AI) numerous times. The coffee ... -
Capital Account Liberalization and China’s Financial Integration
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-02)After four decades of rapid economic growth, China has become the world's second-largest economy and established intricate trade ties with the rest of the world. Nonetheless, China's financial integration is still in its ... -
Catalyzing Regional Energy Transitions: Improving Conditions for Inflation Reduction Act Implementation in Central Appalachia and Texas
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)Last year’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R.5376) was a historic commitment by the United States toward achieving its climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by ... -
Central Bank Reserves Management: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan’s Central Bank
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)This paper reviews the international reserves management strategy of Afghanistan’s central bank (DAB). We also review the sanctions and legal issues pertaining to DAB’s reserves upon the fall of the previous government. ... -
China’s Coming Era of Slow Growth
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-04)The best way to understand China’s present and future is that the Chinese reform era emulated the “Little Dragons,” South Korea, Taiwan, and (to a lesser degree) Singapore. The little dragons were initially run by ruthless ... -
Co-Location and Crime Reporting: Does a Salient Crime Impact Subsequent Crime Reporting in That Location? The “Nirbhaya” Case in Delhi
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)In 2012, anger erupted on the streets of Delhi following the violent rape and murder of a young woman. The scale of the protests, and the intensity of the public’s opprobrium of the police and the administration of Delhi, ... -
Content Moderation in the United States and Europe: Similar Values, Different Approaches
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-01)One hundred years ago the eminent British economist Arthur Pigou identified the problem of externalities, of a business not absorbing all of the costs associated with the goods or services it produced and sold. Classic ... -
Development and Security in the 21st Century
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023)Most of the literature on Sino-American relations focuses on conflicting policies (for instance over the South China Sea or intellectual property) or on characteristics of the international system (Multipolarity hegemony, ... -
The Development of National Payment Systems: Lessons Learned from Developing Country Payment Systems
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)The development of payment systems is critical to improve financial inclusion. This paper reviews the development of payment systems across four developing countries: Afghanistan, Kenya, Brazil, and India. There are two ... -
Earned Wage Access: An Innovation in Financial Inclusion?
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)Since the early 2010s, fintech companies have both gone directly to employees or partnered with employers to provide access to a portion of employees’ earned wages before payday. The growth of these companies, known as ... -
Economic Connectedness: How U.S. High Schools Can Enable Economic Mobility
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)This research on economic connectedness aims to explore the role of high schools in promoting cross-socioeconomic class friendships and therefore economic mobility. Interventions in high schools possess enormous potential ... -
Environmental Policy Lessons from Roman Agrarian Philosophy
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-04)This essay examines Roman agrarian philosophy and poetry, with a focus on the works of Cato, Varro, and Virgil, to argue that these texts are prescient in their vision of the sustainable city: one in which economic growth ... -
Financial Competition and Coexistence in a Bipolar World: Building an Effective U.S. Strategy for Engagement with China
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)This paper explores ways in which the United States might shape the structure and terms of its financial engagement with China more effectively. The recommended policies envision international institutions, payment systems ... -
Fiscal, Monetary and Macroprudential Regimes: Incentives-Values Compatibility in Constitutional Democracies
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-07)I have been asked to write something about the appropriate institutional structure for monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies in an environment of persistently low interest rates. That is one important plausible ... -
Grow Now, Regulate Later? Regulation urgently needed to support transparency and sustainable growth for Buy-Now, Pay-Later
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-04)“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) companies have seen significant growth in the past few years in the U.S. market. BNPL products are expected to account for a considerable portion (12%) of ecommerce sales by 2025. Despite BNPL’s ... -
Identity Assurance in an Era of Digital Disruption: Planning a Controlled Transition
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)This paper endeavors to make the case that we should begin a controlled transition towards widespread online identity assurance over the next decade. While pressure building in this direction over the past five years, the ... -
Monetary Policy in Developing Economies: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan’s Central Bank
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)The study and conduct of monetary policy is well established for developed market central banks. The literature is less comprehensive for smaller developing economies. This paper hopes to contribute to such literature.1 ... -
The Past & Future of Indian Finance
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)India’s growth story depends on the vitality of its financial system. Within the span of five years, the Indian economy has endured two unprecedented shocks: the 2019 economic slowdown triggered by a financial crisis, and ... -
Playing Divide-and-Choose Given Uncertain Preferences
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-07)We study the classic divide-and-choose method for equitably allocating divisible goods between two players who are rational, self-interested Bayesian agents. The players have additive private values drawn from common ...