INET Research Notes features the latest in new economic thinking, with work from INET grantees and the broader INET community. Please comment and discuss to let us know what you think about their cutting-edge work in economics. 

Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
by Diego Comin, Harvard Business School
and Martí Mestieri, Toulouse School of Economics
May, 2013
The Social Cost of Carbon Emissions
by Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research
and Lance Taylor, New School for Social Research
and Armon Rezai, Vienna University of Economics and Business
March, 2013
The Spatial Diffusion of Technology
by Diego Comin, Harvard Business School
and Mikhail Dmitriev, Boston College
and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University
May, 2013
If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?
by Diego Comin, Harvard Business School
and Martí Mestieri, Toulouse School of Economics
April, 2013
The Inevitability of Shadowy Banking
by Edward J. Kane, Boston College
April, 2013
Does Debt Discipline Bankers? An Academic Myth about Bank Indebtedness
by Anat Admati, Stanford University
and Martin Hellwig
March, 2013
Inequality and Household Finance during the Consumer Age
by Steven Fazzari, Washington University
and Barry Z. Cynamon
March, 2013
Modeling Moments of Crisis: The Case of Ireland
by Stephen Kinsella, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
and G. Tiou-Tagba Aliti
December, 2012
Conventions and the European Periphery
by Stephen Kinsella, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
December, 2012
Method to simultaneously determine stock, flow, and parameter values in large stock flow consistent models
by Stephen Kinsella, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
and A. Godin, University of Pavia
and G. Tiou Tagba Aliti, University of Limerick
July, 2012
Words to the Wise: Stock Flow Consistent Modeling of Financial Instability
by Stephen Kinsella, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
November, 2011
Time Series Forecasting: Model Evaluation and Selection Using Nonparametric Risk Bounds
by Daniel McDonald, Carnegie Mellon University
and Cosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University
and Mark Schervish, Carnegie Mellon University
December, 2012
Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination
by Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
October, 2012
The Pricing Effects of Ambiguous Private Information
by Scott Condie, Brigham Young University
and Jayant Ganguli, University of Essex
October, 2012
Chartbook of Economic Inequality: 25 Countries 1911-2010
by Tony Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford.
and Salvatore Morelli, University of Oxford
October, 2012
Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Implications for Teaching about Gender, Behavior, and Economics
by Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
October, 2012
Is Dismissing the Precautionary Principle the Manly Thing to Do? Gender and the Economics of Climate Change
by Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
September, 2012
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men?
by Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston
September, 2012
Income Distribution, Credit and Fiscal Policies in an Agent-Based Keynesian Model
by Giovanni Dosi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
and Giorgio Fagiolo, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
and Andrea Roventini, University of Verona
and Mauro Napoletano, OFCE and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
September, 2012
Principled Policymaking in an Uncertain World
by Michael Woodford, Department of Economics, Columbia University
July, 2012
What’s Wrong with Economic Models?
by Michael Woodford, Department of Economics, Columbia University
July, 2012
The Making of America’s Imbalances
by Moritz Schularick, John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin
and Paul Wachtel, Stern School of Business, New York University
July, 2012
The Financialization of the US Corporation: What Has Been Lost, and How It Can Be Regained
by William Lazonick, The Academic-Industry Research Network
July, 2012
Macroeconomic Policy in DSGE and Agent-Based Models
by Giorgio Fagiolo, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
and Andrea Roventini, University of Verona
July, 2012
Fat-Tail Distributions and Business-Cycle Models
by Giorgio Fagiolo, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
and Andrea Roventini, University of Verona
and Guido Ascari, University of Pavia
September, 2012
Old Lady Charm: Explaining the Persistent Appeal of Chicago Antitrust
by Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa
May, 2012
State-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Policy
by Steven Fazzari, Washington University
and James Morley
and Irina Panovska
May, 2012
Aggregate Demand, Instability, and Growth
by Steven Fazzari, Washington University
and Pietro E. Ferri, University of Bergamo, Italy
and Edward G. Greenberg, Washington University, St. Louis
and Anna Maria Variato, University of Bergamo, Italy
March, 2013
Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on Economic Context?
by Steven Fazzari, Washington University
March, 2012