May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...
May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
November 2021, Interview: "TIE Founder and Editor David Smick interviews Larry Summers, the former Clinton Treasury secretary, top Obama economic adviser, and Harvard president. Summers’ recent ...
October 1, 2020, Paper: "From the technical analyses of wide ranges of scholars to the public discourse backlashes against globalization, there is a huge volume of work historicizing, quantifying, and ...
Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...
June 15, 2021, Video: "Rebecca Henderson teaches at the Harvard Business School, but she’s a vocal critic of “business as usual.” In fact, her scholarly research focuses on how we need to change ...
2021, Paper: "We characterize optimal monetary policy in response to asymmetric shocks that shift demand from one sector to another, a condition arguably faced by many economies emerging from the ...
2021, Paper: "We study tax enforcement in a two-sector economy and focus on cross-sector ef fect of sectoral shocks. Specifically, we investigate whether business fluctuation in mining sector can ...
2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger ...
August 2020, Paper: "China’s real estate has been a key engine of its sustained economic expansion. This paper argues, however, that even before the Covid-19 shock, a decades-long housing boom had ...