How the US-China Trade War Affected the Rest of the World
U pendin g a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade flows in 2018 and 2019. These tariff increases reduced trade between the US and China, but little is known about how trade was affected in the rest of the world. In The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations (NBER Working Paper 29562 ...
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson Awarded …
Oct 14, 2024 · (L to R) Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. Research associates Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences explained that the three scholars "contributed innovative research about what affects ...
The Benefits of Rehabilitative Incarceration | NBER
Apr 6, 2020 · Figure 2. In Norway, the average time spent in prison is a little over six months, which is similar to most other Western European countries. This contrasts with average US prison time of almost three years, which is in large part the reason the United States is an outlier in its incarceration rate compared with the rest of the world [Figure 1].
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Unpacking the Causes of Pandemic-Era Inflation in the US
After several decades of relatively low and stable inflation, in 2021 the US experienced a sharp rise in the pace of price increases. The annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 1.7 percent in February 2021 but rose to more than 5 percent in June 2021.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations: Evidence from a Survey Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob F. French, Maria Paola Ugalde Araya, and Basit Zafar
Business Cycle Dating | NBER
The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee maintains a chronology of US business cycles. The chronology identifies the months of peaks and troughs of economic activity. Expansions are the periods between a trough and a peak; recessions are the periods between a peak and a trough. By convention ...
How Do Corporate Taxes Affect Economic Activity? | NBER
1. “Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts?A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms,” Suárez Serrato JC, Zidar O. NBER Working Paper 20289, July 2014, and American Economic Review 106(9), September 2016, pp. 2582–2624.
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The Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending During the Great …
Oct 10, 2014 · The Great Recession of the 2000s has led many policymakers and scholars to invoke Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal as a source of ideas for how to deal with our current problems.