Working Papers
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Labor Market Volatility and Worker Financial Wellbeing: An Occupational and Gender Perspective
Jan 2024
Research on labor market experience does not explain the link between the volatility low-wage workers encounter and their earnings and it leaves open numerous pressing questions, such as what, if anything, can be done to reduce racial and ethnic differences in economic well-being.
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Mapping Fragility 鈥 Functions of Wealth and Social Classes in US Household Finance
Jan 2024
Examining the crucial role of poverty and inequality in shaping household indebtedness.
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The Art of Paradigm Maintenance: How the 鈥楽cience of Monetary Policy鈥 tries to deal with the inflation of 2021-2023
Oct 2023
The re-emergence of inflation threw the 鈥榮cience of monetary policy鈥 off the rails. Do the new tweaks to the theory work?
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Precedents, Instruments and Targets that the Fed Has Used to Create and Support a Postcrisis Global Safety Net
Sep 2023
Creating the post-2008 global safety net for mega-banks
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The Horizontal Merger Efficiency Fallacy
Aug 2023
By permitting business definitions of 鈥渆fficiency鈥 to leak over into the antitrust lexicon, antitrust scholars have done a great disservice
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Why The Monetary Policy Framework in Advanced Countries Needs Fundamental Reform
Aug 2023
Monetary policy should be guided much more by financial sector developments and much less by near-term targets for inflation.
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Is 鈥淚nflation First鈥 Really 鈥淩entiers First鈥? The Taylor Rule and Rentier Income in Industrialized Countries
Jul 2023
Central banks strongly favored rentier incomes in their reaction functions
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Betting on Black Gold: Oil Speculation and U.S. Inflation (2020-2022)
Jun 2023
Were the sharp increases in prices during 2020-2022 due to fundamental shifts in supply and demand or are they attributable to excessive market speculation?
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The Wage Effect of Workplace Sexual Harassment: Evidence for Women in Europe
Jun 2023
Changes to deeply entrenched systems of unequal gender power dynamics, roles and relations, underpinned by patriarchal values, are part of an effective response to the prevention of sexual harassment and its economic consequences.
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The Anatomy of Cyber Risk
May 2023
Does cyber risk exposure, as opposed to actual incidents, affect firm outcomes?
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Where Does the Money Go? An Analysis of Revenues in the GB Power Sector During the Energy Crisis
May 2023
Revenues to GB electricity generators in 2022 increased by almost 拢30bn, compared to pre-COVID levels.
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The Perils of Antitrust Econometrics: Unrealistic Engel Curves, Inadequate Data, and Aggregation Bias
May 2023
Antitrust econometrics relies on often-implausible assumptions
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The Gift of Sanctions: An Analysis of Assessments of the Russian Economy, 2022 鈥 2023
Apr 2023
Despite the shock and the costs, the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy were in the nature of a gift.
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Current External Challenges to the Economic Expansion of Emerging Markets
Mar 2023
A Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth Perspective
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The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco鈥檚 Transformation from Innovation to Financialization
Feb 2023
On the dereliction of key US-based business corporations to take the lead in making the investments in organizational learning required to generate cutting-edge communication-infrastructure products.