Research Papers

Welfare economists and moral philosophers have shown that the Consumer Welfare Standard is biased in favor of wealthy individuals and corporations—the very powers the antitrust law is supposed to regulate.

The history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German “coal industrialists” from 1926 to 1933

Why the E-DSGE Framework Is Not Fit for Purpose and What to Do About It

The decisions we make now about the governance of AI will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society.

A major factor in the decline of inflation is the simple fact that America’s workers were, in general, unable to raise their nominal wages in line with the rise in the cost of living

Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.

As the “Technoking” of Tesla strategizes to maintain his control over the company’s decision-making, anyone concerned with the role that Tesla will play in the evolving EV transition should be asking how CEO Musk might use, or abuse, his powerful position.

By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country, and possibly more than all other countries put together, securing its role as the world’s first “corporation nation.”

Sensitivity of investment and valuation to drug price indices and market conditions

The concentration of innovation in a handful of urban centers engenders large and persistent regional disparities in economic opportunity.

The current paper returns to the key questions of wages and incomes and how wealth effects cripple reliance on interest rates to control inflation.

How convincing is the model analysis by Bernanke and Blanchard? How empirically relevant are their mechanisms causing inflation – and how robust and plausible are their econometric findings?

The empirical analysis of public sector investments and the health value created by the drugs selected for Medicare price negotiations provides a cost basis for the assessment of the maximum fair price.

It is not just all about banking system liquidity

Read in the context of his time, Bagehot’s book Lombard Street appears as an attempt above all to reveal the dynamic of globalization when global money was sterling.