Working Papers

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IIEP-Working Paper #1
Moore, Michael, "Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries?" with Maurizio Zanardi (ECARES and Tilburg University)
Canadian Journal of Economics Volume 42, No. 2, May 2009, pp. 469-495

IIEP-Working Paper #2
Chen, Maggie X. and Michael Moore, "Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms"

IIEP Working Paper #3
Sinclair, Tara, "Asymmetry in the Business Cycle: Revisiting the Friedman Plucking Model"

IIEP Working Paper #4
Sinclair, Tara, "Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach" with Sinchan Mitra (Discover Financial Services).

IIEP Working Paper #5
Sinclair, Tara, "Multivariate Forecast Errors and the Taylor Rule" with Edward N. Gamber (Lafayette), H.O. Stekler (GWU) and Elizabeth Reid (GWU).

IIEP Working Paper #6
Sinclair, Tara, "Are 'unbiased' forecasts really unbiased? Another look at the Fed forecasts" with H.O. Stekler (GWU) and Fred Joutz (GWU)

IIEP Working Paper #7
Carrillo, Paul, "Alternative Measures of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighborhoods" with Anthony Yezer (GWU)

IIEP Working Paper #8
Carrillo, Paul, "Efficient Deliveries of Cash Transfers to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador" with Juan Ponce Jarrin (FLACSO)

IIEP Working Paper #9
Moore, Michael O., "Trade Liberalization and Antidumping: Is There a Substitution Effect?" with Maurizio Zanardi (ECARES and Tilburg University)

IIEP Working Paper #10
Emran, M. Shahe, "Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka" with Forhad Shilpi (DECRG, World Bank)

IIEP Working Paper #11
Emran, M. Shahe, "The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization" with Forhad Shilpi (DECRG, World Bank)

IIEP Working Paper #12
Emran, M. Shahe, "Cultural Inheritance, Gender, and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from a Developing Economy" with Forhad Shilpi (DECRG, World Bank)

IIEP Working Paper #13
Smith, Stephen C., "Long-run Causes of Comparative Development: An Interpretation of the Recent Evidence," October 2007

IIEP Working Paper #14
Malik, Arun S., "The Desirability of Forgiveness in Regulatory Enforcement", December 23, 2007

IIEP Working Paper #15
Joutz, Frederick L., "Exploring the Link Between Oil Prices and Tanker Rates", with Angela Poulakidas (QCC-CUNY), August 26, 2008
Forthcoming in Maritime Policy and Management

IIEP Working Paper #16
Chen, Maggie X., "Third Country Effects in the Evolution of Free Trade Markets" with Sumit Joshi (GWU)
Revise and resubmit at Journal of International Economics

IIEP Working Paper #17
Moore, Michael O., "Why Don't Foreign Firms Cooperate in U.S. Antidumping Investigations?: An Empirical Analysis" with Alan Fox (U.S. International Trade Commission)
Forthcoming in Review of World Economics

IIEP Working Paper #18
Sinclair, Tara, "Bootstrap Test for Stationarity", with James Morley (Washington University in St. Louis), October 2008

IIEP Working Paper #19
Chen, Maggie X., "Third-Country Effects in Multinational Producation Networks"

IIEP Working Paper #20
Emran, M. Shahe, "Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint and Entrepreneurial Development" with Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia), January 2009

IIEP Working Paper #21
Joutz, Frederick L., "Oil Prices, Fiscal Policy, and Venezuela's Economic Growth", with Michael D. Bradley (GWU) and Amany El-Anshasy (GWU)
Revise and resubmit at Energy Journal

IIEP Working Paper #22
Lustig, Nora, "Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World", February 15, 2009

IIEP Working Paper #23
Chen, Maggie X., "The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians"

IIEP Working Paper #24
Emran, M.Shahey and Stephen C. Smith, "Assessing the Frontiers of Ultra-Poverty Reduction: Evidence from CFPR/TUP, an Innovative Program in Bangladesh" with Virginia Robano (GWU), March 2009

IIEP Working Paper #25
Chen, Maggie X., "Regional Economic Integration and Geographic Concentration of Multinational Firms"
European Economic Review, Volume 53(3), April 2009, pp. 355-375

IIEP Working Paper #26
Carrillo, Paul, and M. Shahe Emran, "Public Information and Household Expectations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", April 2009

IIEP Working Paper #27
Emran, M. Shahe, "Government Borrowing and Private Credit: Evidence from Developing Countries" with Subika Farazi (GWU and World Bank)

IIEP Working Paper #28
Malik, Arun S., "Incentives for Adopting Clean Technologies: A Comparison of Policy Instruments in the Small Numbers Case" with Gregory S. Amacher (Virginia Tech), April 12, 2009

IIEP Working Paper #29
Joutz, Frederick L., "Fiscal and Political Instability and the Growth Nexus in Developing Countries: An Application to Nigeria", with Issouf Samake (World Bank), May 2009

IIEP Working Paper #30
Suranovic, Steve, "Greed and Capitalism: A Source of Evil or Salvation?"

IIEP Working Paper #31
Sinclair, Tara, "How Well Does 'Core' CPI Measure Long-Run Inflation", with Michael D. Bradley (GWU) and Dennis Jansen (Texas A&M), May 2009

IIEP Working Paper #32
Chen, Maggie X., "Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade?", with Aaditya Mattoo (World Bank), August 2008