This manuscript, from a near-term perspective, scrutinizes the economic ramifications of the sanctions levied by Western nations against Russia in the aftermath of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Additionally, it proactively prognosticates the enduring implications of the sanctions on the Russian...

The unprecedented rise of China in the aftermath of the Cold era now entered a new dimension of geopolitical realm where the Trilateral order that emerged after the Crimean crisis in 2014 now again descended into bipolar amplifying the influence of Beijing over the kremlin which reached to the...

We propose a quantitative theory of wealth creation and distribution during China’s transitional growth from the early 1990s, when barriers to setting up private businesses, trading housing, and migrating from rural to urban areas are struck down. In response to the changing economic...

This article investigates the process of reducing poverty in ethnic minority households. Using two recent Vietnam household surveys, we find that ethnic minority households are more likely to be persistently poor and less likely to be persistently non-poor than ethnic majority households. The...

We use an overlapping generations framework to evaluate the transitional impact of state pension reform on public and private workers, and apply this analysis to all fifty U.S. states. We consider (i) closing the pension plan to new entrants, (ii) reducing benefits together with wage increases...

Assessments of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are limited to 20th century ideas of conquest/colonialism. They are tied to ideological frameworks of human history where ill-defined concepts of liberal democracy and totalitarian states are juxtaposed as if there were established typologies of...

We consider the problem of measuring transition probabilities across employment, unemployment and inactivity when longitudinal data is not available and/or the available retrospective data is measured with error. We establish nonparametric point-identification conditions based on time series of...