Brazil and the United Kingdom; currency arrangements in Iraq and their reform after the 2003 war; and the relationship …

data on development spending in Iraq, we show that violence reducing effects of aid are greater when (a) projects are small …

System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing … on the service, compared to a tour under 120 days. For Army and Navy, a deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan further …

There is a paucity of facts about the effects of the recent military quot;Surgequot; on conditions in Iraq and whether … it is paving the way for a stable Iraq. Selective, anecdotal and incomplete analyses abound. Policy makers and defense … markets' assessment of Iraq's future. The new and unusually rigorous findings presented here should help inform current …

Iraq. The novel feature of our analysis derives from the existence of a market for Saddam Securities,' a new future traded …

We consider three questions related to the choice between war in Iraq and a continuation of the pre-war containment ….According to our analysis, pre-invasion views about the likely course of the Iraq intervention imply present value costs for the …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … accounting/ budgetary frameworks. As of December 30, 2005, total spending for combat and support operations in Iraq is $251bn … by 2010, we believe the true costs exceed a trillion dollars. Using the CBO's projection of maintaining troops in Iraq …

From 1997 through early 2003, the United Nations Oil for Food Program allowed Iraq to export oil in exchange for … humanitarian supplies. We measure the extent to which this program was corrupted by Iraq's attempts to deliberately set the price … between the official selling price of Iraq's two crude oils (Basrah Light and Kirkuk) and the market price of several …