Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "international economics"

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    • Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical? 

      Frankel, Jeffrey A. (Springer, 2011)
      By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical ...

    • Empirical Confirmation of Creative Destruction from World Trade Data 

      Klimek, Peter; Hausmann, Ricardo; Thurner, Stefan (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      We show that world trade network datasets contain empirical evidence that the dynamics of innovation in the world economy indeed follows the concept of creative destruction, as proposed by J.A. Schumpeter more than half a ...

    • Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries 

      Bohnet, Iris; Herrmann, Benedikt; Zeckhauser, Richard Jay (Oxford University Press, 2010)
      Why is private investment so low in Gulf compared to Western countries? We investigate cross-regional differences in trust and reference points for trustworthiness as possible factors. Experiments controlling for cross-regional ...