GDP Center Faculty Steering Committee Member Caroline Flammer is co-organizing the upcoming United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Academic Network Conference, which runs alongside PRI in Person, the largest global conference on responsible investment. On behalf of Dr. Caroline Flammer, we are delighted to share the call for papers for the eleventh PRI Academic Network […]
By Henrik Selin & Rebecca Cowing Op-Ed for The Conversation, December 2018
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and GDP Center Core Faculty Member, co-wrote a recent Op-Ed examining carbon emissions from the cargo ships used in international shipping. Selin co-wrote the Op-Ed with GDP Center Administrator Rebecca Cowing. The Op-Ed, entitled “Cargo Ships […]
By R.D. Garrett, S. Levy, K.M. Carlson, T.A. Gardner, J. Godar, J. Clapp, P. Dauvergne, R. Heilmayr, Y. le Polain de Waroux, B. Ayre, R. Barr, B. Døvre, H.K. Gibbs, S. Hall, S. Lake, J.C. Milder, L.L. Rausch, R. Rivero, X.Rueda, R. Sarsfield, B. Soares-Filho, N. Villoria. Global Environmental Change 54 (2019) 135-147.
Throughout the world, one of the striking facts about economic geography is that firms and workers tend to cluster in certain places. Researchers have offered many different explanations for spatial concentration, including transport costs, natural advantages and productivity spillovers. Although economic factors are of doubtless importance, politics may also influence the location decisions of firms […]
In developing countries, manufacturing firms are often characterized by small scale and persistently low growth. Such firms are constrained by restricted access to markets, capital and technologies, as well as by unfavorable investment climates. To spur industrial growth, many developing countries have established special economic zones, a particular place-based policy that provides tax incentives and […]
In economic literature, productivity spillovers refer to events at a firm that lead to ripple effects at another firm. Previous research has investigated spillover effects resulting from multinational firms receiving foreign direct investment and then transferring knowledge to domestic firms. Identification of productivity spillovers between firms is a challenging task, and estimation typically requires data […]
Political boundaries can shape group identity and behavior in fundamental ways. Individuals who share an ethnic background may face incentives for conflict in one area of politics and incentives for cooperation in another. A vast social science literature takes boundaries as given and links diversity within boundaries to weak public goods provision, underdevelopment and conflict. […]
Since the end of the Cold War, the rise of religion in politics led some to predict the 21st century would be “God’s Century.” While this phenomenon has affected every major religious tradition, support for religious politics varies widely between and within societies. Little is known about why some societies—often within the same religious tradition—embrace […]
The scope and intensity of human-environment interactions have increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, so much so that scientists now recognize the existence of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) wherein people interact with natural components. To successfully study the complex ecological, economic, political, social and cultural interactions among CHANS, scientists have developed a telecoupling […]