There are questions to be asked about the wisdom of spending more aid on tax. Is it simply the case that the nature of current support and the way in which it is delivered is adequate, but that there is just not enough of it? If so, all that is needed is more of the same. Or, do we also need to...

Price elasticity estimates of residential electricity demand vary widely across the economic literature. In this paper, we seek to explain these findings using three nationwide datasets – the American Housing Survey, Forms EIA-861, and the Residential Energy Consumption Survey – from the...

Neben der "green card" gibt es in den USA ein wirksames Instrument für die befristete Beschäftigung ausländischer IT-Spezialisten: das sog. H-1B-Programm. Nach diesem Programm können pro Jahr bis zu 115.000 hochqualifizierte ausländische Arbeitskräfte in den USA neu aufgenommen werden....

This paper explains the evolution and effects of Mexico-US migration, and highlights the NAFTA approach to economic integration, viz., free up trade and investment while stepping up efforts to prevent unauthorized migration. The European Union approach is different: provide aid first, and later...

Existing accounts of centralized candidate selection argue that party elites tend to ignore constituent preferences in favor of internal party concerns, leading to accountability deficits. Yet this claim has been largely assumed rather than demonstrated. We provide the first detailed empirical...