Working papers feature new contributions from faculty, post-docs and other collaborators, as well as recently published journal articles from CGT faculty members.

Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification

Pratigya J. Polissar, Cassaundra Rose, Kevin T. Uno, Samuel R. Phelps, & Peter de Menocal

Identifying linkages between urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services using an expert opinion methodology

Robert M. Elliott, Amy E. Motzny, Sudy Majd, Filiberto J. Viteri Chavez, Daniel Laimer, Benjamin S. Orlove, & Patricia J. Culligan

Pathetic fallacies: personification and the unruly subjects of international law

Joseph R. Slaughter

What Are Iranians Dreaming about Today? Reflections on the Islamic Revolution at 40

Kian Tajbakhsh

Framing climate change in frontline communities: anthropological insights on how mountain dwellers in the USA, Peru, and Italy adapt to glacier retreat

Ben Orlove, Kerry Milch, Lisa Zaval, Christoph Ungemach, Julie Brugger, Katherine Dunbar, Christine Jurt

Is this the end of the American century?

Adam Tooze

Host country responses to non-communicable diseases amongst Syrian refugees: a review

Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Chaza Akik, Hala Ghattas, Sandra Mesmar, Miriam Rabkin, and Fouad M. Fouad

Authoritarian State Building through Political Decentralization and Local Government Law: Evidence from the Islamic Republic of Iran

Kian Tajbakhsh

Forensic mental health evaluations in the Guantánamo military commissions system: An analysis of all detainee cases from inception to 2018

Neil Krishan Aggarwal

Environmental and social dimensions of community gardens in East Harlem

Ben Orlove, Nada Petrovica, Troy Simpsona, Brian Dowd-Uribec

How to Measure Population Aging? The Answer Is Less than Obvious: A Review

Ursula M. Staudinger, Vegard F. Skirbekk, Joel E. Cohen

The DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: Bridging Barriers Toward a Clinically Integrated Cultural Assessment in Psychiatry

Neil K. Aggarwal, Ravi DeSilva, Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Hind Swaraj: Reading Gandhi’s Critique of Modernity in Tehran

Kian Tajbakhsh

Conflicts and Crisis in the Faculties: The Humanities in an Age of Identity

Rosalind Morris

As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: Gender-Role Attitudes and Late-Life Cognition

Ursula M. Staudinger, Eric Bonsang, Vegard Skirbekk

Where Modern Macroeconomics Went Wrong

Joseph E. Stiglitz

A climatic context for the out-of-Africa migration

Peter de Menocal

Africa in the World

Mamadou Diouf

Nationalism, Internationalism, and Cosmopolitanism: Some Observations from Modern Indian History

Partha Chatterjee

Debt and Money: Financial Constraints and Sovereign Finance

Patrick Bolton

Nation, Narration, and Health in Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantánamo Diary”

Neil Krishan Aggarwal

Ursprüngliche Akkumulation: The Secret of an Originary Mistranslation

Rosalind C. Morris

A Clash of Constitutionalisms: The United States in Cuba, 1898-1902

Christina Duffy Ponsa

On the “Latin American Decade”

José Antonio Ocampo, Marcos Reis, Eduardo F. Bastian

Distract or Reappraise? Age-Related Differences in Emotion-Regulation Choice

Susanne Scheibe, Gal Sheppes, and Ursula M. Staudinger

The Seventieth Anniversary of World War II’s End in Asia: Three Perspectives

Carol Gluck, Rana Mitter and Charles K. Armstrong

On the Subject of Spirit Mediumship in the Age of New Media

Rosalind C. Morris

European Exceptionalism and the EU’s Accession to the ECHR

N. Turkuler Isiksel

Wisdom and Psychosocial Functioning in Later Life

Paul Wink and Ursula M. Staudinger

Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramović

Sharon Marcus

Celebrity, Past and Present

Sharon Marcus

Contra Boldizzoni: Bringing “Pseudohistory” Back In

Adam Tooze

Images of Aging: Outside and Inside Perspectives

Ursula M. Staudinger

The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Man-Made: Corporations and Human Rights

N. Turkuler Isiksel

The Common World: Histories of Science and Domestic Intimacy

Deborah Coen

War

Andreas Wimmer

Cream Skimming in Financial Markets

Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos and Jose Scheinkman

The World Economy and the Great War

Adam Tooze and Ted Fertik

A Paradigm Shift: Focus on the HIV Prevention Continuum

Margaret L. McNairy and Wafaa M. El-Sadr

Non-Democratic Constitutionalism in the European Union

N. Turkuler Isiksel

Who Is Afraid of Inflation? The Long Shadow of the 1970s

Adam Tooze

Learning and Industrial Policy: Implications for Africa

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald

The Indian Microfinance Crisis: The Role of Social Capital, the Shift to For-Profit Lending and Implications for Microfinance Theory and Practice

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Antara Haldar

Investment, Liquidity, and Financing under Uncertainty

Patrick Bolton, Neng Wang, and Jinqiang Yang

The Good Banker

Patrick Bolton

Machine Tools and Mass Production in the Armaments Boom: Germany and the United States, 1929-44

Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Adam Tooze

Capital Account Regulations, Foreign Exchange Pressure, and Crisis Resilience

Bilge Erten and José Antonio Ocampo

International Lending, Sovereign Debt and Joint Liability

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kaushik Basu

Global Legal Pluralism as Fact and Norm

N. Turkuler Isiksel

Between Text and Context: Turkey’s Tradition of Authoritarian Constitutionalism

N. Turkuler Isiksel

The Flynn Effect and Population Aging

Vegard Skirbekk , Marcin Stonawski, Eric Bonsang, and Ursula M. Staudinger

Global Macroeconomic and Financial Governance

José Antonio Ocampo

Emerging Economies and the Reform of the Global Monetary System

José Antonio Ocampo

The Great Reckoning

Mark Mazower

The Theatrical Scrapbook

Sharon Marcus

Theses on the New Öffentlichkeit

Rosalind C. Morris

Should Derivatives be Privileged in Bankruptcy?

Patrick Bolton and Martin Oehmke

Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event?

Ekaterina A. Uglanova and Ursula M. Staudinger

The Marginal Value of Cash and Corporate Savings

Patrick Bolton, Huntley Schaller, and Neng Wang

Optimization of Women’s Health Before Conception When Pregnancy has Been Postponed

Joachim W. Dudenhausen, Amos Grunebaum, and Ursula M. Staudinger

Personality Plasticity in Later Adulthood: Contextual and Personal Resources Are Needed to Increase Openness to New Experiences

Andrea Mühlig-Versen, Catherine E. Bowen, and Ursula M. Staudinger

L-Shares: Rewarding Long-term Investors

Patrick Bolton and Frédéric Samama

Health Systems and Health Equity: The Challenge of the Decade

Miriam Rabkina, Margaret E. Krukb, and Wafaa M. El-Sadr

Crises: Principles and Policies, with an Application to the Eurozone Crisis

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Relationship Between Age and Promotion Orientation Depends on Perceived Older Worker Stereotypes

Catherine E. Bowen and Ursula M. Staudinger

Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism

Clemens Kroneberg and Andreas Wimmer

Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald

Victorian Theatrics: Response

Sharon Marcus

The Movement against Politics

Partha Chatterjee

Rise, Grubenhund: On Provincializing Kuhn

Deborah Coen

Self-Evaluation Processes in Life Satisfaction: Uncovering Measurement Non-Equivalenceand Age-Related Differences

Heike Heidemeier and Ursula M. Staudinger

Understanding Persuasion and Activation in Presidential Campaigns: The Random Walk and Mean-Reversion Models

Noah Kaplan, David K. Park, and Andrew Gelman

HIV, Aging and Continuity Care: Strengthening Health Systems to Support Services for Noncommunicable Diseases in Low-Income Countries

Miriam Rabkina, Margaret E. Krukb, and Wafaa M. El-Sadr

On Europe’s Functional Constitutionalism: Towards a Constitutional Theory of Specialized International Regimes

N. Turkuler Isiksel

Financing Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: Mechanisms and Responsibilities

Stephany Griffith-Jones, José Antonio Ocampo, and Stephen Pratt

Monetary Policy in a Multi-Polar World

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Why Meaning Intentions are Degenerate

Akeel Bilgrami

Cities and the Biosphere

Saskia Sassen

Executive Compensation and Risk Taking

Patrick Bolton, Hamid Mehran, and Joel Shapiro

Secularism: Its Content and Context

Akeel Bilgrami

The Global Street: Making the Political

Saskia Sassen

A Swiss Anomaly? A Relational Account of National Boundary-Making

Andreas Wimmer

Salomé!! Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, and the Drama of Celebrity

Sharon Marcus

Subsidiary Divestiture and Acquisition in a Financial Crisis: Operational Focus, Financial Constraints, and Ownership

Yue Maggie Zhou, Xiaoyang Li, and Jan Svejnar

Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field

Ursula M. Staudinger and Judith Gluck

A Systemic Approach to Aging in the Work Context

Catherine E. Bowen and Ursula M. Staudinger

Philosophie Africaine et Charte Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

From the Tower of Babel to the Ladder of Jacob: Claude Imbert Reading Merleau-Ponty

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Imperial Climatographies from Tyrol to Turkestan

Deborah Coen

Outside and Inside Liquidity

Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos and Jose A. Scheinkman

Reassessing the Moral Economy of Post-war Reconstruction: The Terms of the West German Settlement in 1952

Adam Tooze

Global Governance for Financial Stability and Development

Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo

In the Name of Trauma: Notes on Testimony, Truth Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa

Rosalind C. Morris

The End of Elsewhere: Writing Modernity Now

Carol Gluck

Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance

Simon Commander and Jan Svejnar

Climate and Circulation in Imperial Austria

Deborah Coen

Precis of Self-Knowledge and Resentment

Akeel Bilgrami

The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001

Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein

Maximizing Autonomy in the Shadow of Great Powers: The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds

Katharina Pistor and Kyle Hatton

Towards an International Green Fund

Patrick Bolton, Roger Guesnerie, and Frederic Samama

Fundamental Rights in the EU after Kadi and Al Barakaat

N. Turkuler Isiksel

The Dynamics of Optimal Risk Sharing

Patrick Bolton and Christopher Harris

Saviors & Sovereigns: The Rise and Fall of Humanitarianism

Mark Mazower

Physical and Motor Fitness are Both Related to Cognition in Old Age

Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, Ben Godde and Ursula M. Staudinger

In Praise of the Post‐racial: Negritude Beyond Negritude

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

International Financial Architecture: Seen Through the Lense of Economic Crisis

Stephany Griffith Jones and José Antonio Ocampo

Style, Tsotsi-style, and Tsotsitaal: The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure

Rosalind C. Morris

Accidental Histories, Post-Historical Practice? Re-reading Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance in the Actuarial Age

Rosalind C. Morris

The Wider Significance of Naturalism: A Genealogical Essay

Akeel Bilgrami

Rethinking Global Economic and Social Governance

José Antonio Ocampo

The Location and Purpose of Wars Around the World: A New Global Dataset, 1816–2001

Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min

Lessons From Harlem: Relevance to a Global Epidemic

Elaine J Abrams and Wafaa El-Sadr

The Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies

Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar

The Global Trade Architecture and the Developing World

Martin Khor and José Antonio Ocampo

Impactos de la Financiera Mundial (The Impact of the World Financial Crisis on Latin America)

José Antonio Ocampo

Reforming the Global Reserve System

José Antonio Ocampo

Affective Experience in Adulthood and Old Age: The Role of Affective Arousal and Perceived Affect Regulation

Eva-Marie Kessler and Ursula M. Staudinger

A Convenient Constitution? Extraterritoriality After Boumediene

Christina Duffy Ponsa

Los Casos Insulares: Doctrina Desanexionista

Christina Duffy Ponsa and Adriel I. Cepeda Derieux

Individual, Community, and Human Rights: a Lesson from Kwasi Wiredu’s Philosophy of Personhood

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Senghor et la Revolution de 1889

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

The Storm Lab: Meteorology in the Austrian Alps

Deborah Coen

Thinking Ahead: The Decision Problem

Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud

Sovereign Wealth Funds : a Developing Country Perspective

Stephany Griffith Jones and José Antonio Ocampo

Subregional Financial Cooperation: the South American Experience

José Antonio Ocampo and Daniel Titelman

Satisficing Contracts

Patrick Bolton and Antoine Faure-Grimaud

Divestitures, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets

Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar

Splitting a Predictor at the Upper Quarter or Third and the Lower Quarter or Third

David K. Park, and Andrew Gelman

Economists’ Perspectives on Leadership

Patrick Bolton, Markus K. Brunnermeier and Laura Veldkamp

Structuring and Restructuring Sovereign Debt: The Role of Seniority

Patrick Bolton and Olivier Jeanne

Bergson in the Colony: Intuition and Duration in the Thought of Senghor and Iqbal

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

The Case for a New International Reform Effort

Barry Herman, José Antonio Ocampo and Shari Spiegel

Inequality, Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America

John Coatsworth

Restructuring of Firms in Transition: Ownership, Institutions and Openness to Trade

Jan Hanousek, Evzen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar

Trouble with Numbers: Statistics, Politics, and History in the Construction of Weimar’s Trade Balance, 1918-1924

Adam Tooze

Democracy and Economic Transformation in India

Partha Chatterjee

Priorities and Sequencing in Privatization: Evidence from Czech Firm Panel Data

Nandini Gupta, Jhon C. Ham, and Jan Svejnar

A Psychology of Wisdom: History and Recent Developments

Ursula M. Staudinger

“They say I am not an American…”: The Noncitizen National and the Law of American Empire

Christina Duffy Ponsa

How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Polona Domadenik, Janez Prašnikar, and Jan Svejnar

Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, and Katherine Terrell

Time to Rethink Sovereign Bankruptcy: A New Role for the IMF?

Patrick Bolton and David A. Skeel, Jr.

Lost Decades: Postindependence Performance in Latin America and Africa

Robert Bates, John Coatsworth, and Jeffrey Williamson

Liberal Reason and the Culture of the Sommerfrische

Deborah Coen

Financial Architecture in Emerging Market Economies

Patrick Bolton and Xavier Freixas

Ancient Battles, New Prejudices, and Future Perspectives: Turkey and the EU

Seyla Benhabib and N. Turkuler Isiksel

An International Civilization? Empire, Internationalism and the Crisis of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Mark Mazower

Making War and Building Peace: The United Nations since the 1990’s

Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis

Mind, Language, and the Limits of Inquiry

Akeel Bilgrami

The Strange Triumph of Human Rights

Mark Mazower

Reference and Naturalism

Akeel Bilgrami

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