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Policy makers, academics, and media reports suggest that women could shrink the gender pay gap by negotiating more effectively for higher compensation. Yet women entering…
Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets. Amanda Pallais, February 25, 2013, Paper. "Hiring inexperienced workers generates information about their abilities. If this…
Hurling itself off successive cliffs, Congress shows dysfunction. Linda Bilmes, February 22, 2013, Opinion. "President Obama called for “smarter government” in his State of the…
Are Stock Markets Really Becoming More Short Term? Mark Roe, February 21, 2013, Opinion. "In a recent commentary, I examined whether increasing pressure from more rapid stock…
The Forecast Slowdown in Medicare Spending: Is More Coming? David Cutler, February 21, 2013, Paper. "The President pushed his budget in last week’s State of the Union address, but…
How Obama Can Win a European Free-Trade Deal. Ben Heineman. February 21, 2013, Opinion. "The contrast was striking. In his State of the Union address, President Obama buried…
A Simple Route to Major Deficit Reduction. Martin Feldstein, February 20, 2013, Opinion. "Putting a cap on tax expenditures—those features of the tax code that are a substitute…
Behavioural Finance. Richard Zeckhauser, February 20, 2013, Video. "Synopsis: Political and economic events shake the world. Financial markets gyrate widely in response. Such…
US tax reform: Reducing the tax code’s bias for debt. Robert Pozen, February 18, 2013, Opinion. "To begin with, let me summarise the specifics of my proposal, which I detailed in…
Why politics fails to address market failures. Jeffrey Frankel, February 17, 2013, Opinion. "Markets can fail. But, as has been demonstrated in areas like air pollution, traffic…