Category: Macro
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Views on the public debt of advanced countries
Piketty, Cochrane, Rajan and Johnson on COVID debt.
On uncertainty measures
New research shows cross-sectional uncertainty to be acyclical. Some evidence from Europe during COVID.
Interactions between monetary and fiscal policies
Should monetary and fiscal policies be coordinated?
How people perceive tax policy
Two new working papers use experimental data to study people’s preferences towards redistribution.
Thinking about debt post-COVID
What are the economic risks to the euro area from regimes of high public debt?
Why did worker power decline?
Is it because firms’ power in labor market increased or because unionization declined?
Taxonomy of economic uncertainty
A comprehensive survey of the literature on uncertainty measures and a new index to detect truly exogenous shocks.
The doom loop of COVID-induced sudden stops
The COVID-19 outbreak has triggered unusually fast capital outflows from emerging markets. What are the effects on the US economy? New research introduces a new financial vulnerability index for EMEs.
How do you like teleworking?
A considerable number of employees is forced to work from home: new research on how this arrangement is affecting people’s lives.