RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William T. Dickens, July 28, 2009, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
William Dickens discusses a new method for estimating the natural rate of unemployment by simultaneously estimating the Phillips and Beveridge curves. Read More
VIDEO
Alice M. Rivlin, July 10, 2009
Alice Rivlin says the U.S. economy is still struggling even though the climbing unemployment rate is a lagging indicator, but that more spending with a new stimulus package is not the answer.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Nessen, December 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution
In these days of worldwide economic turmoil, there’s a lot of talk about the “misery index” – which is calculated by adding together the unemployment rate and the annual inflation rate. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, June 05, 2008
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
Hurricanes, retirement, home-buying and tax-base erosion all pose financial risks. Yet markets to reduce these risks are elusive. The Hamilton Project at Brookings released papers at a discussion on how sound public policy can play a critical role in helping to foster new markets or expand existing markets in ways that could provide widely shared benefits. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Gregg Easterbrook and Elizabeth Warren, January 11, 2008, American Public Media, Marketplace
Brookings Expert Gregg Easterbrook and Harvard Law School's Elizabeth Warren discuss the squeeze on the American middle class. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Geng Xiao, September 22, 2007, 21st Century Business Herald
Geng Xiao argues that China’s inflation must be viewed not just as a current monetary issue, but rather as a part of the country’s long-term economic development. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Geng Xiao, August 30, 2007, Nanfang Daily
Geng Xiao says development of China’s financial sector would help maintain a stable rate of inflation, and prepare the Chinese economy for measured currency revaluation.
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Geng Xiao, August 20, 2007, 21st Century Business Herald
Geng Xiao addresses concerns that inflation in China has led to a rise in food prices. To solve the current imbalances, he argues, China must allow its interest rates and the prices of its raw materials and energy to adjust to natural market levels. Doing so would increase demand, supply markets’ efficiency, and wage levels. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Geng Xiao, July 30, 2007, The Brookings Institution
In response to China’s growing global current account surplus, Chinese policymakers should focus first on raising the inflation rate and then allow for currency appreciation, argues Xiao Geng. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William T. Dickens, Lorenz Goette, Erica Groshen, Steinar Holden, Julian Messina, Mark Schweitzer, Jarkko Turunen and Melanie Ward, February 22, 2007, The Brookings Institution
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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Henry J. Aaron, November 01, 2004, The New York Daily News
Opinion by Henry J. Aaron, The New York Daily News (11/1/04) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
George L. Perry, October 31, 2003, The Brookings Institution
Opinion by George L. Perry (10/31/03) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Christopher D. Carroll, January 01, 2002, CSED Working Paper 25
CSED Working Paper No. 26: Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Civil Violence: Guatemala 1977-1986 Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jessica Cohen, William T. Dickens and Adam Posen, May 15, 2001, The Brookings Institution
Paper by Jessica Cohen, William T. Dickens, and Adam Posen (5/15/03) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
George A. Akerlof, William T. Dickens and George L. Perry, February 01, 2001, Brookings Institution
In this policy brief, the authors propose an alternative to the conventional natural rate model. It is based on behavioral assumptions that we believe are more realistic than those underlying the natural rate model and that are backed by research on Read More