Grants
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Innovation and the State: How Should Government Finance and Implement Innovation Policy?
This research project offers a historical taxonomy of organizational ways that governments fund and implement industrial and innovation policy as well as a taxonomy of contemporary implementation practices.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Macroeconomic Policy over the Business Cycle
This research project provides guidance to policymakers for designing policies that are able to bring economies out of recessions by identifying the best policies to fight unemployment and stabilize the business cycle while alleviating inequality.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
The Birth of the Deutschmark: A social and financial history of German Currency Reform, 1945-1951
This research project provides a better understanding of the processes that accompanied the reforms of the Austrian schilling in 1947 and the birth of the deutschmark in 1948 by merging archival sources with financial data from banks and markets and comparing the two reforms.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Shadow Banks in China: Causes, Impacts and Policy Options
This research project explores the causes and consequences of the rise of China’s shadow banks based on the Modern Money Theory and its extension on the analysis on modern financial systems.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Planning Peace: Development Policies in Postwar Europe
This research project shows the European origins of development economics between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and describes how the postwar global challenge of development took shape.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Inequalities by Race and Gender in the Earnings of Women of Color
This research project investigates how gender and race affect the earnings of African American, Latina, and Asian American women in the United States over five decades, from 1970 to 2010.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
Institutional Investors and the Offshore Hedge Fund Industry: Investigating Patterns of Linkage, Organization, and Governance
This research project combines interdisciplinary expertise with a wholly unique database on hedge funds compiled by the Foundation for Fund Governance to examine the organization and governance of the offshore hedge fund industry.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
The Rise of Federal Credit Programs in the United States
This research project investigates the rise of federal credit programs in the United States, leading to a better understanding of the development of federal credit programs.
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Years granted:
2014, 2015
The Marginal Value of Cash and the Great Depression
This research project employs a new theory and innovative empirical analysis as a new lens for understanding financial instability and financial crises, focusing on the Great Depression.
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Years granted:
2013, 2014, 2015
The London and Cambridge Economic Service: New Perspectives on Economic Forecasting and the History of Economic Thought
This research project rescues the work of the London and Cambridge Economic Service, arguably the first body in Britain to collect and disseminate economic statistics.
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Years granted:
2013, 2014, 2015
Keynes(ians) and Hayek(ians) From the Great Depression to the Long Recession
This research project re-examines the debates around the time of the Great Depression and compares them with those before and since the start of the Long Recession in 2007/8, focusing on Keynes, Hayek, and their followers.
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Years granted:
2013, 2014, 2015
Growth and Credit: Mortgage Securitization through Landschaften in Prussia
This research project explores the origins of covered mortgage bonds and tests for the impact of financial development on economic growth by analyzing the Prussian Landschaften.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Social Econometrics
This research project develops tools that allow social scientists to understand how and when social factors, such as peer influences, role models, or norms, affect individual choices.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Financial Institutions: A Study of Real Linkages and Policy Influence
This research project studies how the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association operate and the factors that help shape the extent to which they are able to ensure financial stability from a public-interest standpoint.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Capital Controls and the International Monetary System
This research project develops a rigorous new theoretical way to study controls of international capital flows and determine their optimal magnitude using a promising new empirical methodology.