Banking and Policy Issues Magazine
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December 2011
Interview with Esther Duflo
MIT economist on strengths and limits of experimental trials, the efficiency of reserving political posts for women and the future of development economics.
Top of the Ninth
- The Value of Outreach
Lessons from a trip to the Williston oil basin [PDF]
Articles
- Policies to Stimulate Innovation
How effective are policies to encourage investment in innovation by firms, and what impact do they have on the macroeconomy? [PDF]
- Nothing but Net
At Heller-Hurwicz Forum on Social Insurance, a synergy of research and policy [PDF]
- Taking the Measure of Prices and Inflation
A century of evolution - and near-constant criticism - has greatly improved price indexes. But work continues to perfect these closely watched economic indicators. [In Brief] [PDF]
- I say CPI, you say PCE
[PDF]
- Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims
2011 Nobel Laureates [PDF]
Research Digest
- Not-So-Great Expectations
Research suggests that a loss of confidence in asset values contributed to the global recession. [PDF]
Virtual Fed
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Virtual Fed [PDF]