Should monetary and fiscal policies be coordinated?

Two new working papers use experimental data to study people’s preferences towards redistribution.

What are the economic risks to the euro area from regimes of high public debt?

Is it because firms’ power in labor market increased or because unionization declined?

A comprehensive survey of the literature on uncertainty measures and a new index to detect truly exogenous shocks.

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.

Will fiscal spending be effective this time around?

A considerable number of employees is forced to work from home: new research on how this arrangement is affecting people’s lives.

The fortunes of a small number of firms can drive recessions which affect disproportionately workers of a certain age.

Trends in R&D spending across regions have changed during the last two decades. The issue of publicly vs. privately funded firm R&D.