Category: Macro

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Macro

How to tax corporations

Saez, Zucman, Acemoglu and Auerbach propose three different ways to tax corporations as part of the debate on how to reduce the large government debt of advanced economies.

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More on r-g

New research on what measure of r-g matters and whether r

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As the global population ages…

… will interest rates rise or fall? Two recent research papers argue on the opposite sides.

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New research on zombie firms

Is zombie credit a disinflationary? How to use machine learning to identify characteristics of zombie firms.

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Will Amazon get unionized?

If the Amazon union vote succeeds it has the potential to change labor relations in the US.

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Macro policy and heterogeneous agents

New research on the household balance sheet channels of macroeconomic policy.

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A wave of bankruptcies in 2021?

What will happen when COVID-related support policies expire? Some interesting evidence.

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Are incentives to automate higher now?

Has COVID-19 increased or decreased the value of investments in automation?

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Biases in empirical research

New research shows that researchers’ affiliations and career concerns might bias their estimates of fiscal multipliers and impact of QE.

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Revisionist history

New research shows that the US Phillips curve has been flat since the early 1980s. This implies that there was no missing disinflation or missing reinflation over the past few business cycles!

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