We find region-specific complementarity between investments in public infrastructure and education, both k-12 and postsecondary. The complementarity helps to explain how regions capture returns to investments in education even when residents are mobile, and is strong enough for the effect of...

This paper is the first to offer an economic model of God and humanity as optimizing agents in the context of concrete belief archetypes (religious ‘contracts’) in Judeo-Christian theology. Data support the model’s unique predictions, despite their otherwise counterintuitive, unlikely...

Evidence from a half century of experience by states identifies nonlinearities in the effects of debt and fiscal policy on growth. Effects are Keynesian for low to moderate levels of debt and stimulus but anti Keynesian for sufficiently high levels of debt or stimulus. Results are broadly...

Durante la ultima decada se ha producido una disminucion sustancial de la tasa de inflacion en paises como España o Italia. Sin embargo, dicho comportamiento esconde un fenomeno de inflacion dual: la tasa de crecimiento de los precios en el sector de bienes no comerciables se ha situado de...

Este trabajo aporta evidencia empirica sobre la efectividad de los movimientos en los tipos de cambio nominales para suavizar los desequilibrios ciclicos entre paises, como se concluye de la literatura de areas monetarias optimas. Utilizando las restricciones del modelo MundellÖFleming (en el...