Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.
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Contents:
- Editors' Summary (Full Text)
- Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox (Abstract)
By Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers (University of Pennsylvania)
- Trade and Wages, Reconsidered (Abstract)
By Paul R. Krugman (Princeton University)
- The Economics of Place-Making Policies (Abstract)
By Edward L. Glaeser and Joshua D. Gottlieb (Harvard University)
- Macroeconomic Crises since 1870 (Abstract)
By Robert J. Barro and José F. Ursúa (Harvard)
- When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence (Abstract)
By Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Simon Johnson (International Monetary Fund), Pablo Querubín (MIT), and James A. Robinson (Harvard)
- Earning from History? Financial Markets and the Approach of World Wars (Abstract)
By Niall Ferguson (Harvard)
ISSN 007-1303