Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "United States"
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A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Axiomatic Approach with an Application to Population and Capital Cities
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2009)We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial ... -
The Dynamics of Capitalism
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)This paper, written for a larger compendium edited by Dennis Mueller, examines key dynamic features of capitalistic economies and how prominent economists such as Schumpeter, Marx, Keynes, and von Mises perceived them. The ... -
The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)We examine an implication of the “Coase Theorem” which has had an important impact both on environmental economics and on public policy in the environmental domain. Under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a ... -
Financial Mergers and Their Consequences
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)This paper, written for a Columbia Law School - American Bar Association conference, analyzes the massive merger wave that has led to substantially increased concentration of banking activity in the United States. One ... -
Foreign Policy Views and U.S Standing in the World
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)What do Americans think about the US role in world affairs and why do they think the way they do? Americans typically do not think about foreign policy most of the time, and, as a consequence, know relatively little about ... -
Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States
(American Economic Association, 2014)We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability. We then provide direct evidence that the ... -
A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)Two decades ago, many people had drawn a lesson from the 1980s: Japan's variant of capitalism was the best model. Other countries around the world should and would follow it. Japan's admired institutions included relationship ... -
On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with ... -
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border
(2009)We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ... -
Willingness to Pay and Political Support for a U.S. National Clean Energy Standard
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)In 2010 and 2011, Republicans and Democrats proposed mandating clean power generation in the electricity sector. To evaluate public support for a national clean energy standard (NCES), we conducted a nationally representative ...