Dynamic Revenue Estimation

By Alan J. Auerbach

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1996

This paper considers the question of adopting 'dynamic' revenue estimation methods, which would incorporate the predicted macroeconomic effects of policies. It describes the current revenue estimation process and how these estimates are used in the format...

Annotated Listing of New Books

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2011

Seth Gershenson on the impact of same-race educators

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What impact does having a same-race teacher have on long-term student performance?

Thar SHE Blows? Gender, Competition, and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets

By Catherine C. Eckel and Sascha C. Füllbrunn

American Economic Review, February 2015

Do women and men behave differently in financial asset markets? Our results from an asset market experiment show a marked gender difference in producing speculative price bubbles. Mixed markets show intermediate values, and a meta-analysis of 35 market...

Financial Entanglement: A Theory of Incomplete Integration, Leverage, Crashes, and Contagion

By Nicolae Gârleanu, Stavros Panageas, and Jianfeng Yu

American Economic Review, July 2015

We propose a unified model of limited market integration, asset-price determination, leveraging, and contagion. Investors and firms are located on a circle, and access to markets involves participation costs that increase with distance. Due to a complemen...

Jim Marrone on the black market for antiquities

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How do economists study archaeological looting?

JEL Classification System

Journal of Economic Literature, December 2014

Sriya Anbil on emergency lending in the Great Depression

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How can we identify "bad banks"?

Ann Owen on gender diversity on bank boards

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How does having more women on a board affect bank performance?

Dennis Bonam on the stability of monetary unions

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Can monetary unions come back from unstable times?

Shaikh Eskander on how Bangladeshi farmers adapt to natural disasters

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How do farmers use the land rental market to mitigate the effects of climate change?

Lei Gao on mortgage discrimination to same-sex loan applicants

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How do lenders treat homosexual borrowers differently?

Elmer Li on assessing school quality

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Is student mobility a better measure of school quality than test scores?

Climate Policy and Trade

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Carola Binder on how gas prices are tied to consumer inflation expectations

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How should monetary policymakers respond to energy price fluctuations?

Lucy Xiaolu Wang on how health IT reduces opioid-related deaths

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How can prescription monitoring programs be more effective?

TrumpEconomics: a First Year Evaluation

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AEA/AFA Joint Luncheon - Liquidity and Leverage

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New Measures of the Economy

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Central Bank Communications

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