In spite of widespread tariff reductions, intra-African borders remain thick. Regional trade is inhibited by inadequate transportation infrastructure, but also by various government-imposed measures. This paper combines price data from the World Bank’s International Comparison Project (ICP)...

Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...

L'organisation de l'UEM repose sur plusieurs principes: l'independance de la Banque central a la quelle on affecte l'objectif d'inflation, l'absence de coordination des politiques budgetaires entre elles et avec la politique monataire, enfin l'encadrement de la politique budgetaire par des...

L'organisation de l'UEM repose sur plusieurs principes: l'independance de la Banque central a la quelle on affecte l'objectif d'inflation, l'absence de coordination des politiques budgetaires entre elles et avec la politique monataire, enfin l'encadrement de la politique budgetaire par des...

L'organisation de l'UEM repose sur plusieurs principes: l'independance de la Banque central a la quelle on affecte l'objectif d'inflation, l'absence de coordination des politiques budgetaires entre elles et avec la politique monataire, enfin l'encadrement de la politique budgetaire par des...

This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...