Does “naming and shaming” of allies by US Presidents work? More precisely, does publicly criticizing members' financial commitments to NATO increase allies' defense spending and improve burden-sharing, or is it counterproductive, leading to lower contributions? We argue that the answer is...

Millions of dollars of international aid is given to developing countries each year to strengthen “rule-of-law” institutions. Led by institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the majority of international legal aid rests on the assumption that market and...

This paper presents the Revised Mirror Image Model (RMIM), a teaching tool intended to help economics instructors depict the short and long-run tradeoffs between output, unemployment, prices, and inflation with one visual model. It does so by incorporating the Long Run Rate of Inflation (LI)...