Tax Competition and the Efficiency of “Benefit-related” Business Taxes
The authors construct a tax competition model in which local governments finance business public services with either a…
March 21, 2019 5535 Results
The Aftermath of the Arab Spring Protests: What a Public Opinion Survey Tells Us
Fellow for the Middle East A.Kadir Yildirim and undergraduate intern Meredith McCain explore survey data on the goals…
March 21, 2019 
Constitutional Foundations of Military Coups
How does a country’s constitutional form of governance — specifically, if it is a presidential or parliamentary system —…
March 21, 2019 
Is There a Correlation Between Vapor Pressure and the Severity of Crude Oil Transportation Incidents?
Energy fellow Rachel A. Meidl examines federal and international efforts to assess the safe transport of crude oil by rail…
March 20, 2019 Religious Authority in the Middle East: Implications for U.S. Policy March 19, 2019
Please note that this event will be held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
The notion of…
The U.S.-Mexico Border: Destinies Intertwined March 18, 2019
Deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural and personal relationships between the United States and Mexico mean…
Examining the Green New Deal
In this episode of the Policy Matters podcast, Michael Maher, senior program advisor for the Center for Energy Studies…
March 18, 2019 
Why mergers can impair patient care
Hospital consolidation and acquisition of physician practices theoretically make sense by creating economies of scale and…
March 15, 2019 
The 1944 U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty as a Constitutional Document
A 1944 U.S.-Mexico water treaty still in effect is one of the world’s finest examples of binational cooperation in managing…
March 14, 2019 Roundtable Dialogue: Property Tax in the Digital Age March 12, 2019
At this Roundtable Dialogue, Jennifer Rabb, director of the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth…