Impact of Mexico's Energy Reform on Consumer Welfare
The authors assess the impact of Mexico's 2014 energy reform on consumer welfare.
Juan Rosellón, José Carlos Ramírez, Francisco Ortiz-Arango March 14, 2021
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Ecology and Economics for Pandemic Prevention
The global financial cost of Covid-19 could top $15 trillion. But governments could prevent future pandemics by investing as little as $22 billion a year in programs to curb wildlife trafficking and stem the destruction of tropical forests, according to an international team of scientists including Baker Institute Faculty Scholar Ted Loch-Temzelides.
Ted Loch-Temzelides, Andrew Dobson, Stuart Pimm, Lee Hannah, Les Kaufman, Jorge Ahumada, Amy Ando, Aaron Bernstein, Jonah Busch, Peter Daszak, Jens Engelmann, Margaret Kinnaird, Binbin Li, Thomas Lovejoy, Katarzyna Nowak, Patrick Roehrdanz, Mariana Vale July 24, 2020
International Economics | Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Journal
A Microfinance Model for Muslim Countries Microfinance institutions have continued to grow over the past few decades, enabling greater access to credit in many of the world's less developed nations. However, in many Muslim countries, the poor tend to reject microfinance on religious grounds. This paper develops an alternative microfinance model that is Islamically permissible and tests it against the standard model.
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal May 1, 2014
Why Are Hospital Prices Rising?
Data on revenues by payer type are used to identify the determinants of rising hospital prices in Texas between 2000 and 2007. By Vivian Ho, Jerome Dugan and Meei-Hsiang Ku-Goto.
Vivian Ho, Jerome Dugan, Meei-Hsiang Ku-Goto October 2, 2013