Where is Aaron?

Sorry about the long delay in posting. I had two paper due on Monday, so last weekend was completely devoted to paper writing, one on the statistics of corruption and one was the edit of my Clinton-China-MFN paper.

The statistics paper proved somewhat interesting, as I was able to show that greater civil liberties and political rights leads to lower levels of corruption in countries. This is somewhat notable, I suppose, because it is often argued that authoritarian governments, because of their centralized control, can run economies more efficiently than democracies. I have shown this claim has, at least, some problems. Horray! But not too revolutionary...