Archive
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Working Paper
Conference paperRising public debt-to-GDP can harm economic growth
Oct 2017
The debt-growth relationship is complex, varying across countries and being affected by global factors. While there is no simple universal threshold above which debt-to-GDP becomes a significant brake on growth, based on data from the last four decades we show that high and rising public debt burdens slow down growth in the long term.
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Working Paper
Conference paperInstrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms
Oct 2017
Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
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Working Paper
Conference paperInside the Great Leveraging
Oct 2017
This paper discusses what we have learned about the debt build-up in advanced societies over the past century. It shows that the extraordinary growth of aggregate debt in the past century was driven by the private sector.
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Conference Session
Debt Traps, Public and Private
Oct 22, 2017 | 04:30
What role does debt play in triggering economic crises, and is the problem principally public or private sector debt?
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Working Paper
Conference paperInnovation, Intellectual Property, and Development
Oct 2017
A better set of approaches for the 21st century.
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Working Paper
Conference paperHell is Truth Seen Too Late
Oct 2017
The contemporary literature on neoliberalism has grown so large as to be unwieldy. For some on the left, this has presented an occasion to denounce it altogether.
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Working Paper
Conference paperHow far are Economists Purveyors of Fake News?
Oct 2017
How far are economists implicated in the rise of ‘fake experts’ and ‘fake news’?
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Conference Session
Fake News and Fake Experts? Or Should the Experts and the Media Find New Citizens?
Oct 22, 2017 | 03:30
Fake news, propaganda, and “expertise”: What has happened to information in the information age?
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Working Paper
Conference paperGains from Trade
Oct 2017
Is Comparative Advantage the Ideology of the Comparatively Advantaged?
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Working Paper
Conference paperImporting Political Polarization?
Oct 2017
The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
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Working Paper
Conference paperDiversity and the Evaluation of Economic Research: The Case of Italy
Oct 2017
Especially in the wake of the Great Recession, calls for more diversity within economics are usually limited to appealing for greater diversity in the economists’ backgrounds, while diversity of opinion and approaches is often neglected.
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Working Paper
Conference paperFathers of Neoliberalism
Oct 2017
The Academic and Professional Performance of the Chicago School, 1960-1985
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Conference Session
Taking the Con Out of Economics? The Limits of Negative Darwinism
Oct 22, 2017 | 12:00
What Do Citations Actually Measure in Economics and How Should Economic Journals and Department Review Committees Use This Data?
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Conference Session
Redefining Inequality
Oct 22, 2017 | 06:30
As the old lines continue to shift, what does inequality mean in the modern global economy? And, how does the economy need to evolve to address these changes?
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News
Nobel Laureates to Co-Chair Independent Commission on Global Economy
Oct 22, 2017
Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Spence and a global team of leading thinkers are calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy