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Get Off the Budget Treadmill. Niall Ferguson, December 5, 2013, Opinion. "It is politics that explains why, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government…
What’s the Problem With Advanced Economies? Kenneth Rogoff, December 4, 2013, Opinion. "Is today’s slow growth in advanced economies a continuation of long-term secular decline,…
The SEC Delays its Consideration of Rules Requiring Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending. Lucian Bebchuk, December 2, 2013, Opinion. "Last week the Securities and Exchange…
Legislating Stock Prices. Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy, December 2013, Paper. "We demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on stock…
The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment. Robert N. Stavins, Winter 2013, Paper. "Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act…
Cyclical Macroeconomic Policy, Financial Regulation, and Economic Growth. Phillippe Aghion, Emmanuel Farhi, December 2013, Paper. "This paper investigates the effect of cyclical…
The Greek Budget Myth. Martin Feldstein, November 27, 2013, Opinion. "Recently, newspaper headlines declared that Greece would have a balanced budget for 2013 as a whole. The news…
In Fed Policy, the Exit Music May Be Hard to Hear. Gregory Mankiw, November 24, 2013, Opinion. "Is it time for the Federal Reserve to start its exit from the extraordinary set of…
Harvard Professor Jeffrey Frankel: The Dollar and Its Rivals. Jeffrey Frankel, November 21, 2013, Opinion. "Since 1976, the US dollar’s role as an international currency has been…
Recession Could Spawn a Generation of Slackers. Lawrence Summers, November 20, 2013, Video. "Harvard's Larry Summers tells the WSJ's Sara Murray that children of unemployed…