Past Event
March
27-28
2025
U.S. Economy
BPEA Spring 2025 Conference
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 2025 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
Papers
Global Economy & Development
Taming cycles
Labor & Unemployment
Should I stay or should I go?
U.S. Trade Policy
The US trade deficit: Myths and realities
Federal Reserve
Treasury market dysfunction and the role of the central bank
U.S. Economy
Recovering from COVID
Housing
America’s housing supply problem