Does more finance lead to longer crises?

Procrastination Might Lead to a Longer and More Useful Life

Does Higher Inflation Lead to More Inflation Uncertainty? (The Case Of Iran)

Does more democracy lead to more open trade regimes?

Many developing countries flocked to free trade since the early 1980s. Concurrent with this rush to adopt an open trade regime, there has been a global movement toward democracy. We argue that these two trends are related by showing how democratization of the political system reduces the ability of governments to use trade barriers as a strategy for building political support. We capture the de...

Does having more physicians lead to better health system performance?

THE US HEALTH SYSTEM FACES ONGOING CHALLENGES in addressing its shortcomings in access and quality. Against a foreground of uneven and fragmented care lies a bleak background of unrelentingly accelerating costs. Although the problems of quality and costs are long-standing, several organizations have recently asserted that there is a new impending health care “tragedy”: the physician workforce s...

Does Higher Inflation Lead to More Uncertain Inflation?

N recent years, many countries have experienced “stagflation,” a period of high and rising inflation and unemployment. Over this time, higher inflation increasingly has come to be blamed for higher unemployment and reduced growth of real output. This contrasts sharply with previously held notions that there was either a long-run tradeoff between inflation and unemployment or a “natural rate of ...