"Kazakhstan: Snow Leopard at the Crossroads, examines the experience of Kazakhstan's transition over the past 30 years, explaining the political and economic performance of the country since the end of the USSR, through the country's institutions, policy choices and external environment. In...

We examine the causal effect of natural resource discoveries on income inequality using the synthetic control method on data from 1947 to 2009. We focus on the natural discoveries in Denmark, Netherlands and Norway in the 1960-1970s and use top 1% and top 10% income share as the measure of...

How should wealth managers and private bankers find and serve the wealthy - particularly in developing countries? Several banks and consulting firms provide market sizing estimates for the number of high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals. However, it is still an open question...