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What ignited humanity’s momentous ascent from millennia of stagnation to an era of sustained economic growth? And what are the roots of the vast
HKIMR Monetary Research Programmes – Call for Proposals The Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) is the research arm of the
This paper presents early results from the RESET Demonstration Project, an initiative that constructs price and sales indices using item-level transactions data. The project’s
This study examines the psychological costs of Cyclone Idai in Malawi through gender, coping strategies and the distribution of disaster costs within households.
We examine the causal effect of uncertainty in property rights on housing prices and speculative behavior. We take advantage of a distinctive setting in
We construct a firm-year panel of income-tax rate reconciliations from annual 10-K filings of public companies to study the effects of the Tax Cuts
Zeban Xu (Cornell University) will present the paper: The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change. Evidence from Global Firm-level MicrodataThe Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics
This paper develops a Beveridgean model of the Phillips curve. While the New Keynesian Phillips curve is based on monopolistic pricing under price-adjustment costs,
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a system of ocean currents that plays a key role in regulating global climate, including moderating temperatures
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe (Columbia University) will present the paper "Central Bank Information or Neo-Fisher Effect?".The Virtual Seminar on Monetary Economics is a monthly online research
The chronically low productivity in Pakistan is due to structural issues. Rather than improving productivity, economic growth in Pakistan has historically relied on factor
Deep learning is increasingly presented in economics as a new paradigm for solving dynamic models, superseding the classical projection methods of numerical economics. We
Standard macroeconomic theories assume that representative or heterogeneous agents share a common model of how the economy operates. Yet evidence shows that households hold
The CEPR Virtual IO Seminar (VIOS) was created to provide an alternative to IO seminars cancelled due to travel restrictions brought on by the
The Second Industrial Revolution sparked a wave of new products and industrial processes, fueling an optimistic Roaring Twenties. But did excitement about technological progress
Call for Papers International Seminar on Trade (ISoT) Third Edition Co-organised by: Journal of International Economics, LMU Munich, CESifo, ifo Institute, World Bank and
India’s ageing population relies heavily on kin, but conventional ageing measures do not capture older adults’ kin networks. We use demographic kinship models to
We use the euro cash changeover, a large-scale and purely nominal reform that requires all firms to redenominate posted prices, to distinguish among theories
Federica Romei (University of Oxford & CEPR) will present the paper "High Non-Tradable Consumption, Inequality, and Weak Monetary Policy". The Virtual Seminar on Monetary
Should a jurisdiction seeking to cut greenhouse gas emissions use demand-side climate policies that target fossil fuel consumption? Or should it introduce supply-side policies
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