Category: Macro
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Fiscal sustainability post COVID-19
Can a government permanently raise the deficit, without ever having to raise taxes? New interesting research… and no it is not MMT!
Social network effects and housing markets
Novel new data sets enable researchers to model agents’ economic decisions in a way that is closer to reality. Two papers on how peer effects impact housing markets.
The welfare cost of inflation
Two different models and data to calculate the welfare cost in the U.S. and Europe.
On diagnostic expectations
New research that studies the psychological foundations of information processing.
What drives the housing boom-bust cycle
New research on the drivers of housing cycles during the last twenty years.
Uneven shocks
Two new research papers on uneven shocks and monetary and fiscal policies, presented during the August 27th Jackson Hole conference.
Predicting credit default
New research on a) which machine learning model is more efficient in predicting credit default; and b) how to extract information from consumers’ behavior.
Measuring inflation
Three new papers present innovative research on how to measure inflation and inflation expectations.
