Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Costa Ricans Vote on Sun. for New President The people of Costa Rica will face a dilemma when they vote for a new president on April 1, writes Erika de la Garza: In…
March 5, 2018 3340 Results
Dynamic Estimates of the Macroeconomic Effects of the House Republican Tax Reform Blueprint
A numerical simulation of the macroeconomic effects of the House Republican Tax Reform plan, using the Diamond-Zodrow model…
March 1, 2018 
Apocalypse Now: Venezuela, Oil and Reconstruction
The outlook for the Venezuelan oil industry and the broader economic and political challenges facing the country are…
February 28, 2018 
Code Red: Venezuela’s Oil and Debt Crises
The economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela took a turn for the worse in the second half of 2017. Declines in oil…
February 28, 2018 
Mexico Shifts Focus to Natural Gas
Since 2010, Mexico’s demand for natural gas has been accompanied by a decline in domestic production, making imports of this…
February 22, 2018 
Market Competition and Health Outcomes in Hemodialysis
This study examines whether market competition affects quality of care and health outcomes among patients receiving dialysis…
February 22, 2018 
What Can We Learn About Energy Access and Demand from Mobile-phone Surveys? Nine Findings From Twelve African Countries
The authors conducted mobile phone surveys on energy supply, demand and quality in 12 sub-Saharan African countries, finding…
February 20, 2018 
Community Benefit Spending and the Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofit Hospitals
A study comparing the community benefit expenditures of two sets of Houston hospitals leads the authors to propose…
February 8, 2018 
The Evolution of Energy Infrastructure in the United States and How Lessons Learned From the Past Can Inform Future Opportunities
Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy, testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural…
February 8, 2018 
Bank Lending and Interest on Excess Reserves
Public finance fellow Thomas Hogan analyzes the relationship between bank lending and the Federal Reserve's policy of paying…
February 7, 2018