Abortion is arguably the most fundamentally divisive issue in American politics. Abortion and childbirth research has generally omitted theoretical considerations focusing instead on empirical analysis of policy and economic incentives for unwanted pregnancies. This paper presents a theoretical...

Recent research (Rose 2003) has called into question the impact of the World Trade Organization on trade. According to Rose, the WTO has no statistically significant impact on trade. The Rose research however, has been called into question on both modeling grounds for regressing against average...

Most sovereign wealth funds depend heavily on oil revenues to increase the capital base. Research on the investment performance of sovereign wealth funds however has focused on the returns to their financial asset portfolio. Given their reliance on the monetization of natural resource to...

Using a unique dataset of CVs, this paper analyzes the relationship between key Huawei personnel and the Chinese state security services. Based upon an analysis of this dataset, I find there is strong evidence that Huawei personnel act at the direction of Chinese state intelligence, and that...

To study the potentially distortionary impact of divergent corporate income tax rates on international trade flows, we use an augmented empirical specification of the gravity model. Incorporating a corporate income tax rate trade barrier measure into a modified gravity model, we capture the...

Sovereign wealth funds are poorly understood by policy makers and scholars. Research has provided valuable insights into their behavior and impact on financial markets. To further our understanding of sovereign wealth funds, it is important that we gain a better understanding of the economics...

Financial data reported by Temasek Holdings and Singapore reveal problematic characteristics. First, Temasek reports an average annual return of 17% for 35 years despite Singaporean stock returns averaging less than 8% during this same time period. Given the range of stock market returns and its...

Research has called into question the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on trade. This research, however, has been called into question on both modeling grounds for and failing to utilize comprehensive fixed effects. Others have found that when these factors are accounted for, imports...

[eng] Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) independence target specific issues faced by commodity dependent economies and represent challenges to investment target countries. The rhetorical impulses of critics obscures the issue of equal treatment, the cornerstone of the international economic system....