"Prospects for Nuclear Power"
Via the NBER: Prospects for Nuclear Power, by Lucas W. Davis, NBER Working Paper No. 17674, December 2011: The prospects for a revival of nuclear power were dim even before the partial reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Nuclear...
NBER EF&G Research Meeting
I am here today: NBER EF&G Research Meeting Nir Jaimovich and Guido Lorenzoni, Organizers February 3, 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco PROGRAM 8:30 am Continental Breakfast 9:00 am Gary Gorton, Yale University Guillermo Ordonez, Yale University Collateral Crises...
"Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion"
From the NBER: Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion, by Martha J. Bailey, Susan M. Dynarski, NBER Working Paper No. 17633, December 2011: [open link] We describe changes over time in inequality in postsecondary education...
Tax Evasion and Investment, Trade and Greenhouse Gases, Football and Grades
Travel day today, so it seems as good a day as any to have a post featuring research by colleagues. First, Bruce Blonigen and Nick Sly (and a coauthor, Lindsay Oldenski): The Growing International Campaign Against Tax Evasion The growing...
"The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty"
Immigration is not the cause of poverty: The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition, by Giovanni Peri, NBER Working Paper No. 17570, November 2011: In this paper I first analyze the wage effects of immigrants on...
The Public Mission of Economics: Overcoming the Great Disconnect
This is an essay I did for the Social Science Research Council's initiative on Academia and the Public Sphere: New Forms of Communication and the Public Mission of Economics: Overcoming the Great Disconnect The papers that are part of the...
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
New research from Jesse Rothstein shows that, contrary to what you may have heard from those who are trying to blame our economic problems on government programs rather than malfeasance on Wall Street, unemployment insurance is not the cause of...
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
New research from Jesse Rothstein shows that, contrary to what you may have heard from those who are trying to blame our economic problems on government programs rather than malfeasance on Wall Street, unemployment insurance is not the cause of...
NBER Economic Fluctuations & Growth Research Meeting
I am here today: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. EF&G Research Meeting October 21, 2011 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 230 South LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois George-Marios Angeletos and Martin Schneider, Organizers PROGRAM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20: 6:30 pm Reception...
Chow: Usefulness of Adaptive and Rational Expectations in Economics
Gregory Chow of Princeton on rational versus adaptive expectations: Usefulness of Adaptive and Rational Expectations in Economics, by Gregory C. Chow: ...1. Evidence and statistical reason for supporting the adaptive expectations hypothesis ... Adaptive expectations and rational expectations are hypotheses...
NBER Research Summary: The Role of Household Leverage
This NBER Research Summary by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi echoes many of the arguments I've been making about balance sheet recessions. In addition, the authors argue that the trouble in mortgage markets can be traced to a "securitization-driven shift...
The Jackson Hole papers
Londoners are off today and many Wall Streeters are stuck at home because of ongoing New York transit problems, so if you’re bored and in need of reading material, below...
