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January 21, 2021, Video: "On Thursday, January 21, James Stock joined Markus’ Academy for a lecture on macroeconomics, carbon pricing, and climate policy. Stock is a Professor of…
December 2020, Paper: "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to…
October 24, 2020, Opinion: "Economists broadly agree that placing a price on carbon, whether through a cap-and-trade program or a tax, is a key element of an economically…
October 2020, Paper: "We assess the economic value of screening testing programs as a policy response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We find that the fiscal, macroeconomic, and…
2020, Dataset; "Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment or GDP. Using a new data set on carbon tax rates, we estimate the macroeconomic…
July 2020, Paper, "Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment and GDP. Focusing on European countries that have implemented carbon taxes…
June 3, 2020, Paper, "We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint long-run evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017. We find…
May 2020, Paper, "We use a five-age epidemiological model, combined with 66-sector economic accounting, to address a variety of questions concerning the economic reopening. We…
U.S. Economic Activity During the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak. James Stock, April 2020, Paper, "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track…
Monitoring Real Activity in Real Time: The Weekly Economic Index. James Stock, April 2020, Paper, "Economists are well-practiced at assessing real activity based on familiar…