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| Christopher Malloy
May/June 2021, Case Study: "Sahan Kumara couldn’t believe what he was seeing online. Two hours earlier, a tsunami had hit Indonesia, sending a wall of water gushing through resorts, sweeping away villages, flooding fields, and killing thousands. Now the waves had struck the coast of his own island nation, causing similar devastation."…
| Dale Jorgenson
January 21, 2021, Paper: "In the twenty-first century the balance of world economic growth has shifted from the G7 industrialized economies, led by Europe, Japan, and the United States, to the emerging economies of Asia, especially China and India. While world growth will continue at a rapid pace, members of the G7 will grow more slowly than the world economy, while China and India will grow more rapidly. Growth in the advanced economies will…
| Paul Gompers
April 2021, Paper: "We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance. The design of the course allows for identification of the…
| Stefanie Stantcheva
April 13, 2021, Paper: "Covid-19 has exacerbated existing inequalities. This paper reviews the evidence to date on how long-standing fractures have been put into sharp relief by the pandemic and discusses policies to address them. The inequalities described take many forms and express themselves along various dimensions that interact with each other. Across the income distribution, pre-tax income inequalities, consumption and savings, job losses…
| Ronald Rogowski
April 2021, Book: "The rise of top-heavy inequality—earnings concentration in a very thin layer of elites—calls into question our understanding of the distributional effects of the Liberal International Order. Far more people lose from globalization, and fewer gain, than traditional economic models suggest. We review three modern trade theories (neo-Heckscher-Ohlin-Stolper-Samuelson or H-O-S-S, new new trade theory, and economic geography) that…
| Jennifer Hochschild
April 2021, Book: "Amid growing inequality within racial and ethnic groups, how do Americans decide where to live, where to work, and for whom to vote? While previous research has examined racial patterns in voting decisions, it provides less insight into individual-level decisions about neighborhoods, candidates, and employment—even while these decisions also organize the political world. We theorize about the role of a key variable stratifying…
| James H. Stock
2021, Paper: "James H. Stock he past five years of US economic policy have been noisy, as the Trump administration and its allies in Congress pursued controversial agenda: a trade war with China, a push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, tax cuts that mostly …" Read Via HEINOnline
| Raffaella Sadun | David Deming
April 7, 2021, Video: "Well before the pandemic, a group of educators and economists saw glitches on the pathway from school to career. Workplaces — increasingly collaborative and digital — needed skills, capacities, and mindsets that job candidates weren’t bringing. For too many job seekers, access to the job market was blocked by inequity, discrimination, and licensing barriers, putting meaningful careers out of reach. And jobs themselves were…
IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath talks about the latest IMF global economic outlook - Gita Gopinath
April 7, 2021, Video: "CGTN's Roee Ruttenberg spoke to Gita Gopinath, IMF Chief Economist about the Fund's latest global economic growth forecast." Watch Via CGTN America
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| Dani Rodrik
April 1, 2020, Opinion: "Thoughtful economists have long been concerned by their profession’s hubristic tendencies, collective attachment to questionable models, and lack of openness to new and different voices. Will the combined effect of the global financial crisis, the anti-globalization backlash, and now COVID-19 finally prompt the discipline to demonstrate greater humility and embrace genuine diversity?"…