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Jacob Robbins

Ph.D. candidate, Brown University

Jacob A. Robbins is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Brown University and a Ph.D. Fellow at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary economics. He received a M.A. in Economics from Brown University in 2014, and a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2011.

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A Model of Secular Stagnation: Theory and Quantitative Evaluation

Paper Conference paper | By Gauti Eggertson, Neil Mehrotra, and Jacob Robbins | Dec 2017

This paper replaces an earlier version of a paper released in 2014 under the title “A Model of Secular Stagnation.”

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Is Slow Growth the “New Normal”?
If So, What Are the Policy Solutions?

Event Conference | Hosted by Secular Stagnation | Dec 15, 2017

Distinguished Scholars Including Larry Summers and Adair Turner Present Evidence of the Trend and Policy Solutions