The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) changed tax policy in two important aspects. It limited state and local tax deductions (SALT) to $10,000 and lowered marginal tax rates in most income brackets. In this analysis, I estimate house price time series models for 20 U.S. cities using...

Ethiopia’s Internet service provision industry is at a critical juncture between deepening competitive reforms and continuation of the status quo in its chosen path of partial liberalization. This paper will show how the introduction of peripheral competition will likely not change the nature...

Studying technology standards in emerging economies provides a unique opportunity to examine the comparative political economy of science, technology, and innovation, as well as to analyze how economic institutions from mature capitalist countries fare when planted in different institutional...

Research since the 1980s has considered the economic and innovation impacts of technology standards policies. This paper extends the research on the impact of standardization policies to consider how the policies themselves, governing how the standards are created, determine standards' impact on...

Cross-border entrepreneurship is a mechanism by which global cities may increase their stock of human capital and capabilities at the expense of the sending home region. Unlike the immigrant and returnee entrepreneurship studied in the past, cross-border entrepreneurship tends to be one-way,...

This paper explains why many small and medium-sized private high-technology Chinese manufacturing firms survive and thrive within an institutional and political system arrayed against them. We use the mobile phone handset industry as an illustrative case of the vitality and capabilities of...