Natural experiments in labour economics and beyond
... we invited our panels of economists to comment on the work of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
... we invited our panels of economists to comment on the work of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Chris Palmer talks about the effects of rent control in Cambridge during its 25-year implementation and in the aftermath of its repeal.
"If we are going to avoid misguided policy pathways ... we need to adapt mainstream economics to new climate realities.”
"Deep learning is being used to translate between languages, predict how proteins fold, analyze medical scans, and play games as complex as Go."
Shares of HubSpot have skyrocketed by 73% since the beginning of the year.
“...even when we look at a sample of extremely talented, highly incentivized expert investors, they are still people."
Kristin Forbes discusses the Fed's policy outlook ahead of the U.S. jobs report.
… price discovery could be effective even if passive strategies represented around 90 per cent of the investment universe.
“Central banks now appreciate that r-star has fallen, and that means they're going to have limited ability to tighten monetary policy ..."
"Systematic trading is really exciting ... what you're trying to do is disentangle the decision-making process from the gut reaction process."