What if India had a Hong Kong Comment by Anonymous: Interesting. Have a look: http://www.livemint.com/articles/2009/06/18222822/The-spirit-of-Mumbai-has-its-r.html Measuring the consequences for developing countries, of open access to the literature Comment by bagdu: Then I contacted their coordinator Nicole Hunt who told me that CEPR papers are free as well like NBER. Here is the gist of that communication: On reading this post, I communicated with CEPR coordinator Nicole Hunt. Here are my findings: