From Boom to Bust: Hardship, Mobilization & Russia's Social Contract

Biology Boom Goes Bust

Political and industrial factors-beyond the economic headwinds-may be causing public investment in biomedical research to slow down around the world.

Credit-Induced Boom and Bust∗

Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in house prices and real economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market share of national banks across counties in 2003 and that in state anti-predatory l...

The Boom and Bust and Boom of Educational Games

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The Baby Boom and Baby Bust

The fertility of American women over the last 200 years has two salient features, portrayed in Figure 1. First, it has declined drastically. The average white woman bore 7 children in 1800. By 1990 this had dropped to just 2. This decline in fertility ran unabated during the 140-year period between 1800 and 1940. Second, fertility showed a surprising recovery between the mid1940s and mid-1960s....

From boom to bust : how different has microfinance been from traditional banking ?