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Income-Driven Repayment Provides a Way to Offer Student Loan Forgiveness to Those Who Need It the Most

Constantine Yannelis
Direct loan cancellation is not the only policy option to lower student debt. If policymakers want more targeted loan forgiveness, aimed at lower income individuals, there...
News

Barking Up the Right Tree: How Shareholder Activists Raise Issues to Placate Large Mutual Funds

Manish Jha
A new paper examines whether shareholder activists tailor their campaigns to persuade large institutional investors and finds that in proxy communications, activists use phrases...
Covid-19

Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel

Joshua Gottlieb
Covid-19 surges have led to spikes in demand for short-term nurses across the United States. A new paper finds nurses travel longer distances, and are more...
News

Judges Who Use Economic Reasoning in Court Decisions Rule In Favor of Business More Often

Siying Cao
A new paper finds that judges who attended law schools with a strong law-and-economics intellectual environment use more economic reasoning, which is positively correlated with a higher...
News

Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Thomas Rauter
Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries. Countries with large natural-resource endowments are often...
Covid-19

The Covid-19 Vaccine is Nearly Here. The Question is: Will People Take It?

Barry Eichengreen
In addition to the challenges involved in manufacturing and distributing the new Covid vaccine from Pfizer, the reluctance of many Americans to take a...
News

The “Turbulent Twenties” Are Just Beginning

Jana Kasperkevic
Years ago, two academics predicted that an increase in economic inequality would lead to a period of political instability in 2020. Since then, the...
Covid-19

Covid-19 Is Reducing Americans’ Confidence Across Institutions

Marianne Bertrand
Latest US household survey findings reveal that the Covid-19 crisis caused a sharp reduction in Americans’ confidence in institutions—whether or not they were directly...
Covid-19

Defying Expectations, Bankruptcy Filings Are Down During the Covid-19 Crisis So Far

Jialan Wang
Historically, bankruptcy filings have closely tracked the business cycle and unemployment rates. However, a recent study found that this relationship has reversed during the...
Monetary Policy

Central Bankers Face Potential Conflict of Interest When Writing About QE Policies

Elisabeth Kempf
As Quantitative Easing makes a return during the global Covid-19 pandemic, its effectiveness has once again come under intense debate in both academic and...
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