Archive
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Working Paper
Conference paperSocial Interaction Models and Keynes' Macroeconomics
Apr 2015
The central concepts of Keynes’ macroeconomic theories concerning the behavior of labor markets, aggregate demand, and asset pricing can be formulated as special cases of a general social interaction model.
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Conference Session
Occupy? Strike? Separatism? Populism? Are Any Of The Historical Forms Of Protest Effective In The Information Age?
Apr 9, 2015 | 07:15—08:45
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Conference Session
Information And Economics: How Should Expectations Be Modeled? What Actually Works?
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:45—12:15
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Conference Session
Northeast Asia: The Balkans of the 21st Century?
Apr 9, 2015 | 09:15—10:45
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Conference Session
Financial Networks, Financial Innovation & Inequality
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:30—12:00
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Conference Session
Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Apr 9, 2015 | 10:00—11:30
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Working Paper
Conference paperPerverse and virtuous feedbacks between inequality and innovation: Which role for public institutions and public investment?
Apr 2015
In this paper, we deal with the complex relationship connecting inequality to innovation, and the ways through which public investment, in particular public participation to R&D initiatives, may affect it. We first stress that multiple different equilibria may exist in the inequality-innovation space.
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Working Paper
Conference paperTop incomes and the glass ceiling
Apr 2015
This paper studies the glass ceiling by analyzing the presence of women at the top of the income distribution using tax record data reported for a sample of countries with individual taxation.
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Conference paperBoard Gender Diversity, Audit Fees and Auditor Choice
Apr 2015
Using a sample of U.S. firms spanning 2001-2011, we examine whether female directors (female audit committee members) affect audit quality in terms of audit effort and auditor choice.
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Conference Session
Gender & Inequality: The Glass Ceiling In International Perspective
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:30—08:00
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Conference Session
The New Politics of Central Banking
Apr 9, 2015 | 07:00—08:30
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Conference Session
Stimulating Innovation & Growth
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:45—08:15
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Conference Session
Inequality, Innovation, and Public Investment
Apr 9, 2015 | 06:15—07:45
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Working Paper
Conference paperPseudo-wealth Fluctuations and Aggregate Demand Effects
Apr 2015
This paper presents a theory of pseudo-wealth in a model that displays aggregate demand externalities.
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Conference paperThe New York Times and American Tax Policy: Representing Citizens or Echoing Elites?
Apr 2015
A recent New York Times article observed that Americans want action to address inequality. 2016 presidential candidates from both parties also acknowledge that inequality is a pressing concern. But not one of the candidates has proposed to do anything meaningful about it, sharing wealthy Americans’ (understandable) opposition to any solution (Scheiber 2015). Perhaps nothing has been done because there is nothing to do about it.