Economic Studies

The Brookings Center for Regulation and Markets Graduate Workshop 1: Research in areas regulated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

1:00 PM - 4:30 PM EST

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Hutchins Roundup: Debt forbearance, online recruiting, and more

Sophia Campbell, Lorena Hernandez Barcena, Louise Sheiner, and Kadija Yilla

Thursday, January 21, 2021

How can the Biden administration improve the Medicaid program?

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Tree with dollar bills for leaves.

Climate change and monetary policy: issues for policy design and modelling

Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, Peter J. Wilcoxen, and Augustus J. Panton

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and state and local budgets: Past, present, and future

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

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Hutchins Roundup: quantitative tightening, zombie credit, and more

Sophia Campbell, David Wessel, and Kadija Yilla

Thursday, January 14, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA JANUARY 7, 2021: Work underway to clean up a former dumping ground at the construction site of Moscow State Universitys Vorobyovy Gory Innovative Science and Technology Center (INTTs). The site with an area of 300,000 square metres is expected to be cleaned up in one and a half months. The project is unofficially referred to as research and technology valley or science valley. In 2019, the Russian government announced plans to establish 15 specialised scientific and educational centres (referred to as valleys) based at Russias leading universities as part of the Nauka Project. Vorobyovy Gory Innovative Science and Technology Centre will be granted special legal regimes and tax breaks similar to those granted to Skolkovo. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS.No use Russia.

Disrupting the waste management industry through technology

Sanjay Patnaik and Michael Allegretti

Thursday, January 14, 2021

June 10, 2020 FOMC Meeting:

Survey of academic and market observers gives high marks to Fed communications

Tyler Powell and David Wessel

Thursday, January 14, 2021

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Class Notes: Merit-based aid, rebuilding a divided America, and more

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Students wear protective masks as they wait in line at a testing site for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) set up for returning students, faculty and staff on the main New York University (NYU) campus in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

The for-profit college system is broken and the Biden administration needs to fix it

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, January 12, 2021