Institutions are a key determinant of economic growth, but the critical junctures in which
institutions can change are not precisely defined. For example, such junctures are often …

Scholarship on the politics of secrecy in international relations and foreign policy has
experienced tremendous growth in recent years. This article begins by providing an …

Abstract The announcement of Timothy Geithner as nominee for Treasury Secretary in
November 2008 produced a cumulative abnormal return for financial firms with which he …

Unprecedented street protests brought down Mubarak's government and ushered in an era
of competition between three rival political groups in Egypt. Using daily variation in the …

The credibility revolution in empirical economics has led researchers to set up more
transparent (quasi-) experimental research designs. This shift has increased the policy …

We discuss three important properties of panel data event study designs. First, assuming
constant treatment effects before and/or after some event time, also known as binning, is a …

This study uses discontinuities in US strategies employed during the Vietnam War to
estimate their causal impacts. It identifies the effects of bombing by exploiting rounding …

This paper examines the supply chain effects of the most damaging cyberattack in history so
far. The attack propagated from the directly hit firms to their customers, causing a four-fold …

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To
answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the US …

We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during
the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following …