Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. Hamilton will represent the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial ...

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Taking into account the recessionary effect of tariffs dramatically brings down the optimal unilateral tariff level derived in standard trade theory.

We argue that college students’ field-of-study choices significantly influence how economies respond to labor market disruptions. To do so, we develop and estimate a framework featuring ...

U.S. labor-force participation dropped by about 3 percentage points and remained below pre-pandemic levels three years later. Recovery varied across states, with slower rebounds in those more affected ...

In such cases, statistical inference is complicated by the interdependence of economic outcomes across locations. A common approach to account for this dependence is to cluster standard errors based ...

Starting in January 2025, New York City became the first city in the United States to introduce a fee for vehicles entering its central business district (CBD). Using Google Maps Traffic Trends, we ...

Recent policy proposals seek to regulate out-of-network hospital prices. We study how such regulation affects equilibrium prices, network formation, and hospital exit. We estimate a structural model ...

My research with collaborators digs deeper into the workings of specific War on Poverty programs, seeking evidence about ...

Stantcheva has made wide-ranging contributions in public finance, studying the effects of taxation on innovation, immigration, and investments in education. She has also developed novel survey and ...

2025, Long-Term Asset Management, Ishita Sen, "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" ...

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