Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2024 Edition

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 2024 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.

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Conference

Past Event

March 28-29

2024

U.S. Economy BPEA Spring 2024 Conference

Thursday, 1:00 pm - 5:15 pm EDT
Friday, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm EDT

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Papers

Man looking at receipts in a grocery store

Monetary Policy Why do we dislike inflation?

Stefanie Stantcheva, Carola Binder, Yuriy Gorodnichenko

March 27, 2024

People walking on the street wearing surgical masks

Public Health The impact of vaccines and behavior on US cumulative deaths from COVID-19

Andrew Atkeson, Stephen Kissler, Thomas Philippon, Coady Wing

March 27, 2024

Global Economy & Development Sustained debt reduction: The Jamaica exception

Serkan Arslanalp, Barry Eichengreen, Peter Blair Henry, Laura Alfaro, Emil Verner

March 27, 2024

Monetary Policy Changing central bank pressures and inflation

Hassan Afrouzi, Marina Halac, Kenneth Rogoff, Pierre Yared, Donald Kohn, Silvana Tenreyro +1 more

March 27, 2024

Global Economy & Development The emergence of a uniform business cycle in the United States

Andrew J. Fieldhouse, David Munro, Christoffer Koch, Sean Howard, Steven J. Davis, Marianna Kudlyak +1 more

March 27, 2024

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the front page of the Wall Street Journal

Banking & Finance The evolution of banking in the 21st century

Samuel G. Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam, Daniel K. Tarullo, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Raghuram Rajan +3 more

March 27, 2024