Einaudi Center for International Studies

How Falsehoods Drove Trump’s Immigration Crackdown in his First 100 Days

April 29, 2025

María Cristina García, Migrations/LACS

“I don’t think we have a full understanding yet of the many ways the Trump administration is changing our immigration system,” says María Cristina García, professor of history.

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Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Migrations Program

AI Suggestions Make Writing More Generic, Western

white and black digital wallpaper (streaming lights, looks high tech)

April 28, 2025

Aditya Vashistha, SAP

Research from Aditya Vashistha (SAP) shows that AI tools function poorly for billions of users in the Global South by suggesting Western language and viewpoints.

Artificial intelligence-based writing assistants are popping up everywhere – from phones to email apps to social media platforms. But a new study from Cornell – one of the first to show an impact on the user – finds these tools have the potential to function poorly for billions of users in the Global South by generating generic language that makes them sound more like Americans.

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World in Focus

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South Asia Program

Indian and Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire

April 27, 2025

Natasha Raheja, SAP/Migrations

Natasha Raheja, assistant professor of anthropology, joins Deutsche Welle to discuss violence in the Kashmir region.

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Migrations Program

Even if a ‘Peace’ Deal Is Reached, Russia Won’t Give up on Ukraine

April 30, 2025

Bryn Rosenfeld, IES

Even if a long-term ceasefire is reached, says Bryn Rosenfeld, Ukraine and its supporters should be concerned with more than just the threat of a new Russian invasion.

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Institute for European Studies

Inflation in the 21st Century: Taking Down the Inflationary Straw Man of the 1970s

Author: Daniel Alpert

This paper is an overview of the history of, and future prospects for, undesirable levels of price inflation in the U.S. economy. The paper concludes that concerns raised in 2021 by several well-known economists and analysts – regarding the prospects for accelerating levels of inflation as a result of pandemic-era and post-pandemic fiscal and monetary policy (enacted and proposed) – is misplaced.

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CRADLE Law and Economics Papers

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Publication Year: 2021

The Interim Balance Sheet of Democracy: A Machiavellian Memo

Author: Célestin Monga

This paper discusses the “global economy of anger” and the “great discordance” that has been the collateral offshoot of technological progress and globalization. It shows that what is often overlooked is that these “advances” have been slowly eroding the foundations of global democracy, enabling political leaders in big and powerful countries to take actions that have no legitimacy or legal basis and are sanctioned by none other than themselves, which is anathema to the very idea of democracy.

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CRADLE Law and Economics Papers

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Publication Year: 2019

The Third Function of Law Is to Transform Cultural Categories

Author: Karla Hoff and James Walsh

How does law change society? In the rational actor model, law affects behavior only by changing incentives and information—the command and coordination function of law. Under the view that humans are social animals, law is also a guidepost for social norms that regulate behavior—the expressive function of law.

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CRADLE Law and Economics Papers

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Publication Year: 2019

Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle lectures to a classroom, gestures with his hands.

May 1, 2025

Conference on May 8-9

In honor of our colleague Nicolas van de Walle (1957-2024), the Institute for African Development is cohosting a conference on African politics.

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Institute for African Development

New Technology and Increasing Returns: The End of the Antitrust Century?

Author: Kaushik Basu

The advance of digital technology is changing the nature of markets, enhancing the capacity of corporations to extract more consumers’ surplus and lower the wages paid to workers. The rise of new technology has also diminished the efficacy of traditional laws to regulate firms and corporations. This is best illustrated by antitrust laws. With the new technology, there are greater returns to scale in production, and further, it is possible to have different components of the same final good be produced by different firms in faraway places.

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White Paper

CRADLE White Paper Series

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Publication Year: 2019

What the Federal Reserve Got Totally Wrong about Inflation and Interest Rate Policy: Getting Real About Rents

Author: Daniel Alpert

Since the beginning of 2019, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) has begun to reconsider the wisdom of having increased its overnight policy interest rate by 100 basis point during the course of 2018, after increasing it by 75 basis points the year before. The FOMC has sent signals, with regard to its prospective actions this year, that are substantially more dovish than the guidance it delivered in 2018. The Fed’s motives may include some soft economic data and severe reversals in equity markets and long term interest rates during the last weeks of 2018, but it is clear that the FOMC’s approach to the policy rate in 2019 will be data dependent and far less dogmatic.