Rules of origin offer preferred market access for final goods whose inputs originate mostly within a free trade agreement. Governments often champion such rules for boosting investment. We use a property-rights framework to study when this motivation is justifiable. The rule does not bind for...

This study explores the documented propensity of women to have more pessimistic expectations than men about future economic conditions in general and Social Security retirement benefits in particular. The authors present an extensive literature review covering research in psychology, economics,...

We study an online display advertising planning problem in which advertisers’ demands for ad exposures (impressions) of various types compete for slices of shared resources, and advertisers prefer to receive impressions that are evenly-spread across the audience segments they target. We use...