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Globalization

Globalization’s Uneven Impact on Women’s Occupational Attainment

Yoav Roll
The literature on globalization’s impact on women’s workforce participation generally takes a positive outlook but still produces mixed results. In their research, Yoav Roll,...
Commentary

Nobel Laureate Douglas Diamond on How the Fed Could Have Prevented SVB’s Collapse

Brooke Fox
Nobel Laureate and bank run expert Douglas Diamond argues that the Fed’s choice to signal long-term low interest rates, and then suddenly reverse course...
Commentary

How the Start-Up Nation Could Fail

Lucian Bebchuk
Lucian Bebchuk and Oliver Hart explain why Israel’s proposed legal transformation would undermine not only its democracy but also its economy. Israel’s ruling coalition is...
Commentary

How Do We Avoid the Next SVB?

Anil Kashyap
Anil Kashyap explains why the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are the result of the failure of the Dodd-Frank Act to...
Commentary

Economics Must Catch Up On Industrial Policy

Nathaniel Lane
Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s back in...
Fiscal Policy

Are Sovereign Green Bonds Anything More than a Fad?

Daniel C. Hardy
It has become fashionable for governments to issue “green” bonds to fund the transition to sustainability. However, sovereign green bonds as currently designed have...
Book Excerpts

How Societies and Families Perpetuate Gender Wealth Inequalities

Céline Bessière
In "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality," sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac show how ostensibly egalitarian property laws still...
Labor

How Women in the Workplace Has Changed Over the Last 50 Years

Stefania Albanesi
Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizable gender gaps still remain. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara...
Antitrust and Competition

The DOJ’s AdTech Suit Against Google Is Anything but Unconventional

Salil Mehra
The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states recently sued Google, claiming it runs its digital ad business to unfairly advantage its own business,...
Income Inequality

To Understand Earnings Inequality, We Need To Study Hours Inequality

Daniele Checchi
A growing literature on income inequality and labor earnings has overlooked the contribution of disparities in hours worked. In new research with Lara Vivian,...
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