Noel Maurer
There are 3 articles for this faculty member.
The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
| Authors: | Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer |
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| Published: | September 25, 2008 |
| Paper Release Date: | August 2008, revised April 2009 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Economists generally agree that a system of transparent and secure property rights is beneficial for growth and development. A large literature emphasizes the role of property rights in spurring long-term investments, improving productivity, changing labor allocations, and increasing access to formal sources of credit. This paper describes U.S. attempts to implement property rights reforms in the Philippines in the early twentieth century. Iyer and Maurer document that, two decades after the arrival of the Americans, property rights in the Philippines had become unambiguously less secure, and that political and budgetary constraints played a large role in inhibiting the progress of reforms.
Published in 2006
Political Turmoil and Mexico's Economy
| Published: | July 19, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Professor Noel Maurer's historical research into Mexico and other countries with unstable governments shows that their economies perform better than might be expected. Why?
What Roosevelt Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903-29
| Authors: | Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu |
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| Published: | July 5, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | March 2006 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
The Panama Canal was expected to bring great economic benefits to the people of Panama. Instead, the United States received most of the benefits. This was a deliberate act on the part of the U.S. The U.S. didn't allow Panamanian businesses to sell goods or services in the Canal Zone, it avoided the employment of Panamanian workers, and it used its military leverage to force Panama into accepting a low payment for the Canal territory.
