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2013-12: US-Tyres: Upholding a WTO Accession Contract – Imposing Pain for Little Gain

Steve Charnovitz and Bernard Hoekman

2013-11: Water, U.S. Foreign Policy and American Leadership

Marcus King

2013-10: Internet Governance and Internet Control: How to Safeguard Internet Freedom

Susan Aaronson

2013-9: Chinese Provincial Macroeconomic Data Revisions

Shirley Hsuan Hsieh

2013-8: Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh

Claudia Berg, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad Shilpi

2013-7: Statistical Versus Economic Output Gap Measures: Evidence from Mongolia

Tara Sinclair and Julia Bersch

2013-6: Cooperative in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends, and Potential for Development

Stephen Smith and Jonathan Rothbaum

2013-5: ‘Re-righting business’: John Ruggie and the struggle to develop international human rights standards for transnational firms

Susan Aaronson and Ian Higham

2013-4: How Well Does "Core" Inflation Capture Permanent Price Changes?

Michael Bradley, Dennis Jansen and Tara Sinclair

2013-3: Sanctuary Markets and Antidumping: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Exporters

Michael Moore

2013-2: Are Sunday Babies Doomed for Life? Measuring the Sunday-Born Achievement Gap in Ecuador

Gabriela Aparicio, Paul Carrillo and M. Shahe Emran

2013-1: Driving Restrictions That Work? Quito's Pico y Placa Program

Paul Carrillo, Arun S. Malik and Jiseon Yoo

2012-11: Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation? Evidence from the U.S. and the Netherlands

Paul Carrillo, Erik de Wit and William Larson

2012-10: Product Switching in a Model of Learning

Olga Timoshenko

2012-09: Characteristics and Implications of Chinese Macroeconomic Data Revisions

Tara Sinclair

2012-8: Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries: Lessons from Current Research and Needs from Future Research

Stephen Smith and Arun Malik

2012-7: The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty

Stephen Smith

2012-6: Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India

Stephen Smith and Saudamini Das

2012-5: The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China

Yao Pan

2012-4: "Drill, Baby, Drill!" The Correlation of "Energy Independence" Policy in the United States

Llewelyn Hughes and Francisco Flores-Macias

2012-3: Evaluating a Vector of the Fed's Forecasts

Tara Sinclair, Herman Stekler and Warren Carrow

2012-2: A New Approach For Evaluating Economic Forecasts

Tara Sinclair, Herman Stekler and Warren Carnow

2012-1: Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment

Ana Fostel

2011-25: Israel - Middle East North Africa (MENA) Trade: Is There Any Truth to the NEG Theory as Applied to the Israel-Jordan QIZs?

Joseph Pelzman

2011-24: Vietnam's Transition to a Market Economy: The Use of NME Standards in Dumping and Countervailing Investigations: or What Happened to Me On the Way to Rome?

Joseph Pelzman

2011-23: US-Regional Agreements with Latin America - The Long and Unsuccessful Saga of CAFTA and the FTAA

Joseph Pelzman

2011-22: Addicted to Oil: Implications for Climate Change Policy

Steven Suranovic

2011-21: The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development

Sarah Baird, Craig McIntosh and Berk Özler

2011-20: Where Did Identification Go?

James Foster, Sabina Alkire and Maria Emma Santos

2011-19: Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association and Redundancy

James Foster, Mark McGillivray and Suman Seth

2011-18: Understandings and Misunderstandings of Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

James Foster and Sabina Alkire

2011-15: Trust and Trustworthiness in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Experimental Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake

Alberto Chong, David Fleming and Hernan Bejarano

2011-14: Poverty Measurement with Ordinal Data

Chrysanthi Hatzimasoura and Christopher Bennett

2011-13: Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?

Susan Aaronson and M. Rodwan Abouharb

2011-12: Peltzman on Ice: Evidence on Compensating Behavior Using a Natural Experiment from Ice Hockey

Alberto Chong and Pascal Restrepo

2011-11: Human Recognition among HIV-Infected Adults: Empirical Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

Tony Castleman

2011-10: Measurement of Human Recognition: A Methodology with Empirical Applications in India and Kenya

Tony Castleman

2011-9: Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Theoretical Model

Tony Castleman

2011-08: Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review

Tony Castleman

2011-07: Tanker Ownership in non-OECD countries and the Rise of Government-Owned Fleets

Al Wood

2011-06: Argentina: There and Back Again?

Michael Moore

2011-05: Differences in Early GDP Component Estimates Between Recession and Expansion

Tara Sinclair and Herman Stekler

2011-04: Multidimensional Poverty and Interlocking Poverty Traps: Framework and Application to Ethiopian Household Panel Data

Stephen Smith and Sungil Kwak

2011-03: Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion

Paul Carrillo, M. Shahe Emran and Anita Rivadeneira

2011-02: Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador

Paul Carrillo, M. Shahe Emran and Gabriela Aparicio

2011-01: Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data

Stephen Smith and Sungil Kwak

2010-29: Reality Bites: The Myth of Labor Rights as a Non-trade Issue

Susan Aaronson

2010-28: Limited Partnership: Business, Government, Civil Society (NGOs) and the Public in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)

Susan Aaronson and Jennifer Brinkerhoff

2010-26: Minding Our Business: Corporate Social Responsibility Pressures and the Failure to Develop Universal Global Rules to Govern Investors and States

Susan Aaronson

2010-25: Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start on Smoking

James Foster, Kathryn H. Anderson and David Frisvold