Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2022 Edition

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2022 Edition

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The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is a semi-annual academic conference and journal that pairs rigorous research with real-time policy analysis to address urgent economic challenges of the day. Content of the Spring 2022 edition, including the conference page (where conference drafts, presentation slides, and recordings are posted) and final papers (along with discussion comments, appendixes, and replication files) can be found below.

Conference

Past Event

March 24-25

2022

U.S. Economy BPEA Spring 2022 conference

DC

Thursday - Friday, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

Papers

Toy figures standing on stacks of coins.

Federal Reserve Monetary policy and racial inequality

Alina Kristin Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, Paul Wachtel, William “Sandy” Darity, Benjamin Moll +1 more

March 23, 2022

Mother working with two children.

Understanding the economic impact of COVID-19 on women

Claudia Goldin, Stefania Albanesi, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

March 23, 2022

Illustration of digital currencies on top of a motherboard.

Cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi)

Igor Makarov, Antoinette Schoar, Gary B. Gorton, Eswar Prasad

March 23, 2022

U.S. Economy Fiscal policy and budget deficits following the pandemic

N. Gregory Mankiw, Phillip Swagel

March 28, 2022

A vacant, boarded up house is seen in the once thriving Brush Park neighborhood with the downtown Detroit skyline behind it in Detroit, Michigan March 3, 2013. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder cleared the way for a state takeover of Detroit, declaring that the birthplace of the U.S. automotive industry faces a fiscal emergency and that he has identified a top candidate to assume its management. Friday's declaration by the Republican governor virtually assures that the state of Michigan will assume control of Detroit's books, and eventually decide whether the city should file the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. REUTERS/ Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: CITYSCAPE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS POLITICS)

Economic Security & Mobility The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure: A new method for measuring poverty

John Fitzgerald, Robert A. Moffitt, Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

March 23, 2022

Stacks of coins with a toy house.

Housing What have they been thinking? Home buyer behavior in hot and cold markets: A ten-year retrospect

Robert J. Shiller, Anne K. Thompson

March 23, 2022