Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Spring 2011

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:

• Job Search, Emotional Well-Being, and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data By Alan B. Krueger and Andreas Mueller

• Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications By Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider, and Peter Tufano

• Let’s Twist Again: A High-Frequency Event-Study Analysis of Operation Twist and Its Implications for QE2 By Eric T. Swanson

• An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy By N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl

• What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession? By Michael C. Burda and Jennifer Hunt

• Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession By Laurence Ball and Sandeep Mazumder