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Working PaperLabor Market Volatility and Worker Financial Wellbeing: An Occupational and Gender Perspective
Jan 2024
Research on labor market experience does not explain the link between the volatility low-wage workers encounter and their earnings and it leaves open numerous pressing questions, such as what, if anything, can be done to reduce racial and ethnic differences in economic well-being.
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Working PaperThe Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to Financialization
Feb 2023
On the dereliction of key US-based business corporations to take the lead in making the investments in organizational learning required to generate cutting-edge communication-infrastructure products.
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Working PaperPermanent Scars: The Effects of Wages on Productivity
Jul 2022
A persistent regime of low wages may determine very negative long-term consequences on the economy.
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Working Paper SeriesThe Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 2019
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world
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Working Paper SeriesFirm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects
Jul 2019
We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that they devote to political risks.
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Working Paper SeriesDemand-determined potential output: a revision and update of Okun’s original method
May 2019
Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why
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Working Paper SeriesThe performativity of potential output: Pro-cyclicality and path dependency in coordinating European fiscal policies
Aug 2016
This paper analyzes the performative impact of the European Commission’s model for estimating ‘potential output’, which is used as a yardstick for measuring the ‘structural budget balance’ of EU countries and, hence, is crucial for coordinating European fiscal policies.
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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.