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July 2020, Volume 55, Issue 3
- 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 - 163-165 A review of “Windfall: how the new energy abundance upends global politics and strengthens America’s power,” by Meghan L. O’Sullivan
by Marianne Kah - 166-167 James R. McGuigan, R. Charles Moyer, and Frederick H. deB. Harris (eds.): Managerial economics: applications, strategy, and tactics
by Thomas Kevin Swift - 168-169 Henry Kaufman: Tectonic shifts in financial markets: people, policies and institutions
by Francis H. Schott
April 2018, Volume 53, Issue 2
- 53-54 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 55-59 Lessons from the global financial crisis
by Mervyn King - 60-65 R-star wars: the phantom menace
by James B. Bullard - 66-71 Adapting tax systems for population aging
by Karen Dynan - 72-78 Global aging and public finance
by Jason J. Fichtner - 79-85 What is holding back housing?
by Laurie S. Goodman - 86-99 Importance of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and critical issues it faces
by Erica L. Groshen - 100-102 The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve Peter Conti-Brown
by M. Cary Leahey - 103-104 2017-12-18 Review of Nicholas Eberstadt’s book
by Michael W. Horrigan
January 2018, Volume 53, Issue 1
- 1-2 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 3-9 Global economic challenges and opportunities
by Tao Zhang - 10-16 Between debt and the devil: beyond the normalization delusion
by Lord Adair Turner - 17-24 China’s belt and road initiative and regional perceptions of China
by John O’Trakoun - 25-36 Drivers of international tourism demand in Africa
by Ogechi Adeola & Nathaniel Boso & Olaniyi Evans - 37-47 Water and wastewater treatment worldwide: the industry and the market for equipment and chemicals
by Andrew Gross & Emily Park - 48-49 The end of the Asian century by Michael R. Auslin
by Gene Huang - 50-52 The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
by Paul Thomas
October 2017, Volume 52, Issue 4
- 187-188 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 189-193 Unconventional monetary policy and the role of central banks
by Raghuram Rajan - 194-207 Inflation, uncertainty, and monetary policy
by Janet L. Yellen - 208-215 The tax reform agenda
by Martin Feldstein - 216-226 Did Okun’s law die after the Great Recession?
by Giorgio Canarella & Stephen M. Miller - 227-249 America’s online ‘jobs’: conceptualizations, measurements, and influencing factors
by Christopher Alex Hooton - 250-259 Quantifying the housing recovery: which MSAs are experiencing bubbles?
by Azhar Iqbal & Mark Vitner - 260-264 Business economics in a post-truth era
by Stuart P. M. Mackintosh - 265-267 Paradox resolved? A review of the Rise and Fall of American Growth, by Robert J. Gordon
by John G. Fernald - 268-271 The age of experts: a review of Marc Levinson’s an extraordinary time
by Stephen C. Sexauer & Laurence B. Siegel
July 2017, Volume 52, Issue 3
- 127-128 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 129-137 The overselling of globalization
by Joseph E. Stiglitz - 138-148 OECD’s interim economic outlook, March 2017
by Catherine L. Mann - 149-153 Federal policy and economic growth
by Douglas W. Elmendorf - 154-157 Faster growth and greater fiscal responsibility are possible
by Glenn Hubbard - 158-167 What is the potential growth rate of the U.S. economy, and how might policy affect it?
by Jason Furman - 168-169 Policy uncertainty and the economic outlook
by Douglas Holtz-Eakin - 170-174 New policy uncertainties in the economic outlook
by Joel Prakken - 175-180 Is there an easy cure for low growth?
by John Fernald - 181-183 The end of alchemy: money, banking, and the future of the global economy
by Kevin L. Kliesen - 184-185 “The undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds”
by Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
April 2017, Volume 52, Issue 2
- 85-86 From the editor
by Charles Steindel - 87-98 Secular stagnation or financial cycle drag?
by Claudio Borio - 99-102 Does mismeasurement explain low productivity growth?
by Chad Syverson - 103-113 Prices of high-tech products, mismeasurement, and the pace of innovation
by David Byrne & Stephen D. Oliner & Daniel E. Sichel - 114-117 The necessity for a strategic approach to monetary policy
by Mickey D. Levy - 118-122 Threats to monetary policy independence: reasons to be concerned
by David J. Stockton - 123-125 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Apurv Jain
January 2017, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 1-2 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 3-6 Comments at the Panel “Responders of First or Last Resort: Central Bank Strategies in an Era of Ultra-Low Interest Rates”
by Charles L. Evans - 7-14 Monetary Policy Accommodation at the Lower Bound
by Signe Krogstrup - 15-31 The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby
by William Poole - 32-40 Are Young People Becoming More Risk Averse? An Analysis of Factors Contributing to the Rise in Precautionary Savings Among Young Adults
by LaVaughn M. Henry - 41-56 When is a Firm Born? Alternative Criteria and Consequences
by Paul Davidson Reynolds - 57-67 The U.S. Carpet Industry: History, Industry Dynamics, and a Simple Model for Short-Term Forecasting
by Kevin Swift & Emily Sanchez - 68-75 The Competitive Dynamics of the Generic Drug Manufacturing Industry
by Evan Hoffman - 76-77 Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by Larry Neal - 78-80 The Curse of Cash
by Stephen Williamson - 81-83 Erratum to: When is a Firm Born? Alternative Criteria and Consequences
by Paul Davidson Reynolds
October 2016, Volume 51, Issue 4
- 187-187 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 188-202 Ultra-Easy Money: Digging the Hole Deeper?
by William R. White - 203-206 The Business Economist’s Toolkit
by Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly - 207-212 Manipulation and Deception as Part of a Phishing Equilibrium
by George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller - 213-238 The Evolving Contours of Productivity Performance and Automation Investment in U.S. Manufacturing
by Cliff Waldman - 239-247 A New Framework to Estimate the Near-Term Path of the Fed Funds Rate
by Sam Bullard & Azhar Iqbal & John Silvia - 248-259 Is Predicting Recessions Enough?
by Azhar Iqbal & John Silvia - 260-265 Does Economic Activity Slow in Election Years?
by Michael A. Brown & Michael Pugliese
July 2016, Volume 51, Issue 3
- 125-126 From the Editor
by Charles Steindel - 127-132 Northern America’s Production of Technology Capital Is Transforming the World Economy
by Edward C. Prescott - 133-141 Reflections on Macroeconomics Then and Now
by Stanley Fischer - 142-146 Challenging the Groupthink of the Guild
by Kevin Warsh - 147-154 Finding the Equilibrium Real Interest Rate in a Fog of Policy Deviations
by John B. Taylor & Volker Wieland - 155-157 Why We Need Sound Public Finances
by Ludger Schuknecht - 158-160 The Case for an Active Fiscal Policy in the Developed World
by Angel Ubide - 161-165 Housing Conundrum: A Shortage of Demand or Supply?
by Stephen D. Oliner - 166-180 The US Aerospace Industry: A Manufacturing Powerhouse
by Maksim Soshkin - 181-183 When Technical Skills Are Not All You Need to Succeed
by Constance L. Hunter - 184-185 Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
by Francis Schott
January 2016, Volume 51, Issue 1
- 1-2 From the Editor
by Robert Thomas Crow - 3-7 Economic Implications of Demographic Change
by James Poterba - 8-10 Public and Private Challenges of an Aging U.S. Population
by Olivia S Mitchell - 11-17 Economic Implications of Demographic Change: Diversity Dividend or Deficit?
by Marta Tienda - 18-26 Secular Outlook for Global Growth: 2015–34
by Irina Tytell & Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly & Dirk Hofschire - 27-35 Exploring a Measurement of Analytics Capabilities
by Suzanne Heller Clain & Matthew J Liberatore & Bruce Pollack-Johnson - 36-49 Fed Funds Rate Surprises and Financial Markets
by John Silvia & Azhar Iqbal & Alex Moehring - 50-52 The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
by Charles Steindel - 52-54 The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
by John C Goodman
October 2015, Volume 50, Issue 4
- 161-161 From the Editor
by Robert Thomas Crow - 162-168 Designing Federal Budget Policy to Spur Economic Growth
by Douglas W Elmendorf - 169-177 A Career in a Less-than-Perfect Economy
by John Silvia - 178-190 The Home Purchase Sentiment Index: A New Housing Indicator
by James A Wilcox - 191-199 Three Challenges to Central Bank Orthodoxy
by James Bullard & Kevin L Kliesen - 200-205 Integrating Financial Stability into Monetary Policy
by Stephen S Poloz - 206-218 The First 50 Years of Business Economics
by Robert Thomas Crow - 219-227 The World Market for Light Sources: Lamps and LEDs, 2006–21
by Jennifer Mapes-Christ & Andrew C Gross - 228-229 Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business
by Charles Steindel - 230-231 Mastering ‘Metrics’: The Path from Cause to Effect
by Jan Kmenta
July 2015, Volume 50, Issue 3
- 113-113 From the Editor
by Robert Thomas Crow - 114-127 Central Banking After the Crisis: No Return to Past Certainties
by Adair Turner - 128-134 The Changing Nature of the Long-Run Federal Budget Problem
by Rudolph G Penner - 135-146 Gauging the Financial Capability of Americans
by Mark A Johnson & Douglas J Lamdin - 147-154 The Solar Panel Manufacturing Industry’s Boom, Bust, and Future
by Leah Goddard - 155-156 The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
by Jesse S Hixson - 156-159 Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation
by Gerald L Musgrave