Economic Research
Economic ResearchTopic - Public Economics
Risk Sharing, Inequality, and Fertility
Larry E. Jones, Ali Shourideh, Roozbeh Hosseini
September 2009 - Working Paper
Who Do You Trust with Your Money?
Two books take a hard look at Federal Reserve independence.
David Fettig
September 2009 - The Region
Public-Private Partnerships: For Whom the Road Tolls?
PPPS are popping up worldwide, and increasingly in the United States. Are they a way forward for crumbling infrastructure?
Ronald A. Wirtz
June 2009 - The Region
Business Start-Ups and Productive Efficiency
Hakki Yazici
September 2008 - Working Paper
Accounting for Private Information
Pricila Maziero, Laurence Ales
June 2008 - Working Paper
Taxation, Aggregates and the Household
Gustavo Ventura, Nezih Guner, Remzi Kaygusuz
April 2008 - Working Paper
Putting a Price on Carbon
To address global warming, most economists favor a focus on prices, not quantities.
Phil Davies
December 2007 - The Region
On the Needed Quantity of Government Debt
Edward C. Prescott, Kathryn Birkeland
November 2007 - Quarterly Review
On Public Policy and Economic Education
Top of the Ninth
Gary H. Stern
September 2007 - The Region
Stepping Beyond the Rice Fields
The Economics of Immigration--Winning Essay
Jordan Wong
September 2007 - The Region
On the Optimal Choice of a Monetary Policy Instrument
Patrick J. Kehoe, V. V. Chari, Andrew Atkeson
August 2007 - Staff Report
Disaster Zone
Why conventional insurance alone isn't the best way to cope with the next catastrophe.
Richard M. Todd, Phil Davies
December 2006 - The Region
Flaws in the Ointment
Disaster insurance markets are distorted, economists argue, and could be improved.
Phil Davies
December 2006 - The Region
Circle, or square?
Ronald A. Wirtz
September 2006 - The Region
Interview with Martin Feldstein
Harvard economist Martin S. Feldstein on monetary policy, social security reform, tax cuts and the NBER.
Douglas Clement
September 2006 - The Region
