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  1. Why Data Is Like Fire

    Featuring Long Chen

    Mar 11, 2020

    Dr. Chen Long, Director of the Luohan Academy, explains why the digital revolution is so different from the industrial revolution

  2. How The Troika Runs Europe

    Featuring Nina Eichacker

    Jan 22, 2020

    The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the continent’s austerity police

  3. Banning Buybacks

    Featuring William Lazonick

    Dec 4, 2019

    Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

  4. Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing

    By Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

    Sep 4, 2019

    How Investor-owned Physician Practices Are Driving up Healthcare Costs

  5. How Can We Track Bank Risk?

    Featuring Juliane Begenau

    Aug 21, 2019

    Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau

  6. Working Paper Series

    Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

    By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

    Jul 2019

    We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that they devote to political risks.

  7. How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality

    Featuring Moritz Schularick

    Jul 10, 2019

    When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class

  8. A Brief History of Doom

    Featuring Richard Vague and Rob Johnson

    Jun 26, 2019

    Richard Vague and Rob Johnson discuss the role of excessive lending in causing financial crises throughout history

  9. Non-bank lending and the credit cycle: what are the risks?

    Featuring Trent Reasons and Til Schuermann

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  10. Outlook Session: How much debt is too much?

    Featuring Karen Dynan, Jan Hatzius, and Adair Turner

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  11. Expectations and Credit Cycles: What role for over-optimism of borrowers and lenders?

    Featuring Alessia De Stefani and Kaspar Zimmermann

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  12. Incentives and Credit Cycles: What’s driving risk taking in credit booms?

    Featuring Ruediger Fahlenbrach

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  13. Private Debt Booms and the Real Economy: Do the benefits outweigh the costs?

    Featuring Emil Verner

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  14. Sectoral Credit and Financial Instability: Does the sectoral allocation matter for financial stability risks?

    Featuring Karsten Müller

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  15. How can we measure risk exposure of banks and credit markets?

    Featuring Juliane Begenau

    Jun 21, 2019 |