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Reopening Scenarios
We use a five-age epidemiological model, combined with 66-sector economic accounting, to address a variety of questions concerning the economic reopening.
Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence From the United States
In this paper, we study how occupation (or industry) tradability shapes local labor-market adjustment to immigration.
The Cost-Effectiveness Implications of Carbon Price Certainty
While a firm knows the carbon price with certainty under a tax, it must form an expectation about future allowance prices to identify its cost-effective abatement investment under a cap-and-trade prog
Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID-19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments
This study dissects the US Department of the Treasury’s formula for distributing first-round CARES Act funds to Indian Country.
Deep Flaws in a Mercury Regulatory Analysis
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How the Economy Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic
The pandemic will change the economic and financial order forever. We asked nine leading global thinkers for their predictions.
Measuring Real Activity Using a Weekly Economic Index
In normal times, real activity moves sluggishly so familiar monthly and quarterly macroeconomic data provide information on a time scale that is sufficiently granular for macroeconomic monitoring and
US Economic Activity During the Early Weeks of the SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak
This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the response to the novel Coronavirus in the United States.
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