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October 2022, Volume 57, Issue 4
- 159-160 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 161-168 The great divide: education, despair, and death
by Angus Deaton - 169-173 Why I am proud to be an economist
by David Altig - 174-180 Is this full employment? assessing global labor force dynamics
by Dana M. Peterson - 181-190 Measuring race in US economic statistics: what do we know?
by Sonya Ravindranath Waddell & John M. Abowd & Camille Busette & Mark Hugo Lopez - 191-203 ROC approach to forecasting recessions using daily yield spreads
by Kajal Lahiri & Cheng Yang - 204-216 The price elasticity of senior housing demand: is it a necessity or a luxury?
by Daniel G. Lindberg - 217-221 Subjective inflation expectations of households
by Michael Weber - 222-224 Gregory Zuckerman: A shot to save the world: the inside story of the life-or-death race for a COVID-19 vaccine
by Catherine L. Troisi - 225-227 Ben S. Bernanke: 21st century monetary policy: the federal reserve from the great inflation to COVID-19
by Charles Goodhart - 228-231 Scott Sumner: The money illusion: market monetarism, the great recession, and the future of monetary policy
by Donald Kohn - 232-234 Masaaki Shirakawa: Tumultuous times: central banking in an era of crisis Yale University Press, 2021
by Takeo Hoshi - 235-237 Lev Menand: The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
by Patrick M. Parkinson - 238-240 Nick Timiraos: Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—And Prevented Economic Disaster
by Ellen E. Meade - 241-243 Jon Hilsenrath: Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval
by Charles Steindel
July 2022, Volume 57, Issue 3
- 93-94 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 95-110 Business forecasting during the pandemic
by John O’Trakoun - 111-119 Technology and productivity growth
by Lucia Foster & Alex He - 120-120 Correction: Technology and productivity growth
by Lucia Foster & Alex He - 121-138 The impact of a U.S.–U.K. free trade agreement on workers: a CGE model with worker displacement
by Jeff Ferry & Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan & Amanda Mayoral - 139-139 Correction to: The impact of a U.S.–U.K. free trade agreement on workers: a CGE model with worker displacement
by Jeff Ferry & Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan & Amanda Mayoral - 140-146 Christopher Leonard: The Lords of Easy Money: how the federal reserve broke the American economy
by William Poole - 147-149 Nicholas Wapshott: Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
by Richard G. Anderson - 150-152 Rebecca Henderson: Reimagining capitalism in a world on fire
by Douglas J. Lamdin - 153-154 Christopher Mims: Arriving today: from factory to front door—why everything has changed about how and what we buy
by Kenneth D. Simonson - 155-156 Edward Glaeser and David Cutler: Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
by Jeffrey P. Cohen - 157-158 Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters: what economics is, and what it should be Princeton University Press, 2021
by Rachel Soloveichik
April 2022, Volume 57, Issue 2
- 41-42 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 43-55 Climate policy is macro policy: 2022 Volcker lecture at NABE conference
by Mark Carney - 56-63 A note on the fed’s power to lower inflation
by Ray C. Fair - 64-77 Blending data to understand the economic impact of COVID-19
by Scott A. Brave & Rebecca Hutchinson & Christopher J. Kurz & Michael Stepner & Ron Jarmin - 78-80 Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith: Money and the rule of law: generality and predictability in monetary institutions
by Carl E. Walsh - 81-83 Robert E. Gallman and Paul W. Rhode: Capital in the Nineteenth Century
by Alexander J. Field - 84-85 Jeffrey E. Garten: Three days at Camp David: how a secret meeting in 1971 transformed the global economy HarperCollins, 2021
by Edwin M. Truman - 86-88 Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein: Noise: a flaw in human judgment
by John Kay - 89-91 Marie Springer: The politics of Ponzi schemes: history, theory, and policy
by Robert E. Wright
January 2022, Volume 57, Issue 1
- 1-1 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 2-5 The multiple hats of a Global Business Economist
by Manuel Balmaseda - 6-22 Is there a labor shortage?
by Michael Horrigan & Misty Heggeness & Kate Bahn & Michael R. Strain - 23-24 Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda, and Daniel Sichel (eds.): Measuring and accounting for innovation in the twenty-first century (NBER studies in income and wealth, volume 78)
by Diane Coyle - 25-26 Daniel Yergin: The new map: energy, climate, and the clash of nations
by Tim Mullaly - 27-30 Fabian Schär and Aleksander Berentsen: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets: A Comprehensive Introduction
by Rodney Garratt - 31-34 Stephen E. Koonin: unsettled: what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters
by David K. Levine - 35-37 Timothy J. Bartik: Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity
by Cletus C. Coughlin - 38-40 Matthew Yglesias: One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Ken Simonson
October 2021, Volume 56, Issue 4
- 193-194 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 195-199 Economics at Google
by Hal Varian - 200-211 Housing preferences during the pandemic: effect on home price, rent, and inflation measurement
by Molly Boesel & Shu Chen & Frank E. Nothaft - 212-216 Estimating the economic cost of the COVID-19 pandemic
by Azhar Iqbal & Sam Bullard - 217-239 The power of prediction: predictive analytics, workplace complements, and business performance
by Erik Brynjolfsson & Wang Jin & Kristina McElheran - 240-251 Labor market outcomes under digital platform business models in the sharing economy: the case of the taxi services industry
by Sanae Tashiro & Stephen Choi - 252-254 Stephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy
by R. W. Hafer - 255-257 Harold James, Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003
by John Calverley - 258-259 William Quinn and John D. Turner: Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles
by Christopher M. Meissner - 260-261 Charles Camic: Veblen, The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics
by Charles Steindel - 262-264 Viral V. Acharya: Quest for restoring financial stability in India
by Rajeev Dhawan - 265-265 Correction to: Can addressing inequality unleash economic growth?
by Lisa D. Cook & Nela Richardson & Jim Tankersley - 266-266 Correction to: Charles Camic: Veblen, The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics
by Charles Steindel
July 2021, Volume 56, Issue 3
- 115-116 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 117-117 Correction to: From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 118-128 What do price equations say about future inflation?
by Ray C. Fair - 129-145 The impact of Hurricanes on the value of commercial real estate
by Jeffrey D. Fisher & Sara R. Rutledge - 146-154 What influences entrepreneurship among skilled immigrants in the USA? Evidence from micro-data
by Nabamita Dutta & Saibal Kar & Russell S. Sobel - 155-167 High-frequency data from the U.S. Census Bureau during the COVID-19 pandemic: small vs. new businesses
by Catherine Buffington & Daniel Chapman & Emin Dinlersoz & Lucia Foster & John Haltiwanger - 168-178 Who are the essential and frontline workers?
by Francine D. Blau & Josefine Koebe & Pamela A. Meyerhofer - 179-182 Three cheers (sort of) for carbon taxes: a review of recent books on climate change economics and policy
by Yoram Bauman - 183-185 Mitchel Y. Abolafia: Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis
by Harvey Rosenblum - 186-187 Anne Case and Angus Deaton: Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism
by Pia Orrenius - 188-190 Michael Strain: The American dream is not dead (but populism could kill it)
by Diane Lim - 191-192 Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman: The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World
by Sara R. Rutledge
April 2021, Volume 56, Issue 2
- 57-58 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 59-66 Can addressing inequality unleash economic growth?
by Lisa D. Cook & Nela Richardson & Jim Tankersley - 67-80 Is it a gender representation issue or a gender pay gap issue? A study of the replaced executives in the USA
by Rama K. Malladi & Joshua D. Mean - 81-86 Pre-retirement use of 401(k) funds
by David Bernstein - 87-97 The market for acquiring card payments from small and medium-sized Canadian merchants
by Angelika Welte & Jozsef Molnar - 98-100 John H. Cochrane and John B. Taylor (editors): Strategies for monetary policy
by David Wilcox - 101-105 Edward Nelson: Milton Friedman and economic debate in the United States, 1932–1972 (volumes 1 and 2)
by Peter N. Ireland - 106-107 John Kay and Mervyn King: Radical uncertainty: decision-making beyond the numbers
by Paul Mizen - 108-109 Robert Shiller: Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
by Stuart P. M. Mackintosh - 110-112 Charles Goodhart and Manon Pradhan: The great demographic reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation revival
by Robert Eisenbeis - 113-113 Correction to: Charles Goodhart and Manon Pradhan: The great demographic reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation revival
by Robert Eisenbeis
January 2021, Volume 56, Issue 1
- 1-1 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 2-7 What does the new long-run monetary policy framework imply for the path ahead?
by Charles L. Evans - 8-13 Outlook for democracy and democratic institutions
by Roger B. Myerson - 14-19 Covid’s economic reset: making the quixotic quotidian
by Constance L. Hunter - 20-28 The legacy of Paul Volcker
by Sheila Bair & Donald Kohn & John Taylor - 29-42 COVID-19, labor demand, and government responses: evidence from job posting data
by Xiaobing Shuai & Christine Chmura & James Stinchcomb - 43-53 Women empowerment and insecurity: firm-level evidence
by Ummad Mazhar - 54-56 Anjan V. Thakor, The purpose of banking: transforming banking for stability and economic growth
by W. Scott Frame
October 2020, Volume 55, Issue 4
- 179-180 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 181-190 The Covid-19 economic crisis: dangerously unique
by Claudio Borio - 191-201 Central bank responses to COVID-19
by Patricia C. Mosser - 202-212 The effects of the COVID pandemic on the federal budget outlook
by Alan J. Auerbach & William Gale - 213-228 COVID-19’s impact on the U.S. labor market as of September 2020
by Erica L. Groshen - 229-239 Measuring employment during COVID-19: challenges and opportunities
by Gerald D. Cohen - 240-252 In recovery mode: manufacturers try to bounce back after COVID-19 disruptions
by Chad Moutray - 253-266 The coronavirus crisis and the technology sector
by Carolyn Evans - 267-278 Tracking the U.S. health sector: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
by Corwin Rhyan & Ani Turner & George Miller - 279-288 Economists tackle the challenges of a pandemic
by Diane Swonk & Lisa D. Cook & Julia Coronado & Emily Kolinski Morris & Anna Paulson & James M. Poterba & Claudia Sahm & Michael R. Strain & Ellen Zentner
July 2020, Volume 55, Issue 3
- 105-106 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 107-112 Solving policy problems, at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere
by Roger W. Ferguson - 113-119 Fiscal policy responses to economic inequality
by Jason Furman & Douglas Holtz-Eakin - 120-128 A strong dollar: help or harm?
by David Dollar & Nathan Sheets - 129-133 Rising student loan burdens and what to do about them
by Karen Dynan - 134-137 Student debt overhang: imprint on homeownership and the economy
by Kamila Sommer - 138-149 Public pension shortfalls and state economic growth: a preliminary examination
by Charles Steindel - 150-160 The small-dollar loan industry: a new era of regulatory reform—and emerging competition?
by Thomas A. Hemphill - 161-162 First responders: inside the US strategy for fighting the 2008–2009 global financial crisis Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, and Henry M. Paulson, Yale University Press
by Garry Gorton - 163-165 Jump-starting America: how breakthrough science can revive economic growth and the American dream
by Jesse M. Abraham - 166-168 Janek Wasserman: The Marginal Revolutionaries: how Austrian economists fought the war of ideas
by Alex Tabarrok - 169-171 Burying the Lede: A Review of The Economists’ Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum
by Vincent Reinhart - 172-175 Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology (translated by Arthur Goldhammer)
by Charles Steindel - 176-177 Otmar Issing: The Long Journey of Central Bank Communication
by Mark A. Wynne
April 2020, Volume 55, Issue 2
- 65-66 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 67-68 Martin Feldstein
by James M. Poterba - 69-72 The impacts of the U.S.–China trade war
by Gordon H. Hanson - 73-79 Housing finance reform: the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
by Laurie S. Goodman - 80-91 Brazil’s economic reform roads
by Diogo Ramos Coelho - 92-94 Stefano Battilossi, Youssef Cassis, and Kazuhiko Yago (eds.): Review of Handbook of the history of money and currency
by Ronnie J. Phillips - 95-97 Book Review for Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by David Wiczer - 98-100 M. Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge (eds.): Review of A decade after the global recession: lessons and challenges for emerging and developing economies
by Amalia Estenssoro - 101-103 Review of Reflections on Allan H. Meltzer’s Contributions to Monetary Economics and Public Policy
by Stuart G. Hoffman
January 2020, Volume 55, Issue 1
- 1-2 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 3-6 Alan’s approach to research and his colleagues
by Erica L. Groshen - 7-9 Alan Krueger mattered
by Jonathan Gruber - 10-17 From time use to contingent work to labor supply: thoughts on the contributions of Alan Kreuger
by Michael Horrigan - 18-20 MMT: assume a can opener
by Laurence Meyer - 21-22 Some observations on MMT: what’s right, not right, and what’s too simplistic
by Catherine L. Mann - 23-25 Giving MMT the credit it is due
by Julia Coronado - 26-40 Blue smoke and seers: measuring latent demand for cannabis products in a partially criminalized market
by Patrick L. Anderson - 41-44 Reflections on economic policy
by Arthur B. Laffer - 45-52 Modernizing data collection for the Consumer Price Index
by Crystal Konny - 53-61 The business aviation industry: growth, contraction and consolidation
by Jesse Jacobs & Brad Goebel - 62-64 Raghuram Rajan: The Third Pillar—How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Beth Ann Bovino
October 2019, Volume 54, Issue 4
- 197-198 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 199-210 Consumer expectations: a new paradigm
by Richard Curtin - 211-225 Deregulation, tax policy, and certainty: foundations of the U.S. recovery
by Michael J. Chow & William C. Dunkelberg - 226-235 A look at the historical growth of the U.S. internet sector
by Christopher Hooton & Sera Crasta - 236-247 Diehard or delicate? Violence and young firm performance in a developing country
by Ummad Mazhar & Fahd Rehman - 248-256 Decoupling from China: an economic analysis of the impact on the U.S. economy of a permanent tariff on Chinese imports
by Steven Byers & Jeff Ferry - 257-259 Review of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze. London: Penguin UK, 2018
by David Miles - 260-261 Review of Fighting Financial Crises: Learning from the Past by Gary B. Gorton and Ellis W. Tallman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018
by David C. Wheelock - 262-264 The State Strikes Back: the end of economic reform in China? by Nicholas R. Lardy
by John O’Trakoun - 265-267 William G. Gale, Fiscal therapy: curing America’s debt addiction and investing in the future
by Robert C. Fry
July 2019, Volume 54, Issue 3
- 155-156 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 157-159 Perspectives on debt and deficits
by Paul Krugman - 160-162 Financial stability and monetary policy
by William C. Dudley - 163-164 Financial stability and monetary policy
by Nellie Liang - 165-168 Does China change the game?
by Adam S. Posen - 169-172 U.S. economic security and the challenge from China
by Peter Morici - 173-176 The economic and fiscal consequences of immigration: highlights from the National Academies report
by Francine D. Blau & Jennifer Hunt - 177-181 The title insurance industry: infusing innovation and competition
by Thomas A. Hemphill - 182-184 Richard Collier and Joseph Andrus: transfer pricing and the arm’s length principle after BEPS
by William J. Seeger - 185-190 Review of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order, by Kai-Fu Lee
by R. Preston McAfee - 191-192 Jesse Norman: Adam Smith: what he thought, and why it matters
by Thomas Kevin Swift - 193-195 Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner, and Henry M. Paulson Jr.: Firefighting: The financial crisis and its lessons
by Laurence Ball
April 2019, Volume 54, Issue 2
- 103-104 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 105-107 Forces engendering the long-term economic outlook
by Alan Greenspan - 108-113 The third post-world war II wealth bubble
by Eugene Steuerle - 114-121 What is going right in manufacturing?
by Mark Vitner & Azhar Iqbal - 122-126 From Keynesianism to the knowledge economy: the rise and fall of growth regimes
by Peter A. Hall - 127-129 Nudging: a very short guide
by Cass R. Sunstein - 130-130 Correction to: Nudging: a very short guide
by Cass R. Sunstein - 131-133 Our troubling fiscal situation
by Douglas W. Elmendorf - 134-136 How federal deficits could hurt state and local governments
by Kim Rueben - 137-144 Fundraising, social media and tourism in American symphony orchestras and opera houses
by Angela Besana & Annamaria Esposito - 145-147 Big is Beautiful: debunking the myth of small business, by Robert D. Atkinson and Michael Lind
by Ryan A. Decker - 148-150 Unelected Power, the quest for legitimacy in central banking and the regulatory state, by Paul Tucker
by Catherine L. Mann - 151-154 Volcker and de Larosière: the end of giants?
by Stuart P. M. Mackintosh
January 2019, Volume 54, Issue 1
- 3-15 Financial crises: past and future
by Carmen M. Reinhart - 16-24 Real options? Labor contracts in an uncertain world
by Julie Byrne & Margaret Hurley & Rowena A. Pecchenino - 25-34 Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho: flexible labor contracts with real option characteristics
by Julie Byrne & Rowena A. Pecchenino - 35-60 Business strategy and firm location decisions: testing traditional and modern methods
by Patrick L. Anderson - 61-68 Are yield-curve/monetary cycles’ approaches enough to predict recessions?
by Azhar Iqbal & Sam Bullard & John Silvia - 69-78 When will the longest expansion end?
by Robert J. Gordon - 79-84 The business cycle is alive and well
by James H. Stock - 85-88 A look back at a luck-filled career
by John Silvia - 89-91 Adaptive markets: financial evolution at the speed of thought by Andrew Lo
by Richard Berner - 92-94 Susan Wharton Gates: Days of Slaughter
by Frank E. Nothaft - 95-96 Book review for “The High Cost of Good Intentions”
by Bill Dupor - 97-99 Review of the fed and Lehman brothers: setting the record straight on a financial disaster, by Laurence Ball
by John A. Weinberg - 100-101 Review of Economic indicators for professionals by Charles Steindel
by Diane Coyle
October 2018, Volume 53, Issue 4
- 171-172 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 173-183 Monetary policy and risk management at a time of low inflation and low unemployment
by Jerome H. Powell - 184-194 Explaining the slow U.S. recovery: 2010–2017
by Ray C. Fair - 195-201 Improving the usefulness of the Purchasing Managers’ Index
by Rolando F. Peláez - 202-208 Behavioral attitudes toward current economic events: a lesson from neuroeconomics
by Kavous Ardalan - 209-224 Retirement concerns and planning of cooperative members: a study in the Dutch healthcare sector
by George Apostolakis & Gert Dijk - 225-231 Oil and the economy: evolution not revolution
by Mine Yücel - 232-233 Dani Rodrik: Straight talk on trade—ideas for a Sane World Economy
by Stuart P. M. Mackintosh - 234-236 Douglas A. Irwin: Clashing over commerce: a history of U.S. trade policy
by David Beckworth - 237-239 U can’t touch this! The intangible revolution
by Daniel E. Sichel
July 2018, Volume 53, Issue 3
- 105-106 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 107-123 Is American manufacturing in decline?
by Kevin L. Kliesen & John A. Tatom - 124-133 Perspectives on U.S. Fiscal Policy
by Jeffrey Holland & Edward Leamer & Alice Rivlin - 134-140 Immigration and United States Economic Growth
by Frederick Treyz & Peter Evangelakis - 141-144 The U.S. immigration debate: what’s all the shouting for?
by Jared Bernstein - 145-155 The case against price-level targeting
by Peter Hooper - 156-162 A new twist on an old framework: bounded price-level targeting
by David Altig