In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.
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What Earnings Calls Tell Us About Financial Risk
Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system
By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Jesse Schreger, Markus Schwedeler, and Ahmed Tahoun
Video | Health, Technology & Innovation
How Lifting Intellectual Property Restrictions Could Help World Vaccinate 60% of Population by 2022
As new coronavirus cases surge across India, calls are growing louder for wealthy countries to loosen intellectual property restrictions
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Bibliometrics or Peer Review for Research Assessment: Is That the Right Question?
A low agreement between bibliometrics and peer review at the level of individual article indicates that metrics should not replace peer review at the level of individual article.
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America's Dual Economy: Why the Middle Class Is Vanishing
A collection of INET research and articles on how and why the middle class has been shrinking and how this leads to a “dual economy”
Working Paper | Finance
By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Jesse Schreger, Markus Schwedeler, and Ahmed Tahoun
Article | Government & Politics
The People’s Bank of China’s network of local currency swap arrangements provide Asian countries with a much-needed safety net, while also strengthening China’s diplomatic position.
Working Paper | Finance
Analyzing corporate conference calls reveals the way that countries perceive and spread risk through the global financial system
By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Jesse Schreger, Markus Schwedeler, and Ahmed Tahoun
Contrary to the New Keynesian paradigm, long-term unemployment can be reversed without a significant uptick in inflation
By Walter Paternesi Meloni, Davide Romaniello, and Antonella Stirati
Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic has hit women workers harder than men, and disproportionately hurt the job prospects of lower education workers
By Steven Fazzari and Ella Needler
Working Paper | Government & Politics
The People’s Bank of China’s network of local currency swap arrangements provide Asian countries with a much-needed safety net, while also strengthening China’s diplomatic position
Working Paper | Race
Formerly incarcerated Black people emerge from prison with far less education and social skills than white ex-cons. And they have great trouble forming families or earning a good living.
By Peter Temin
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse
Apr 20, 2021
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Large-sale debt relief for indebted households could be a game changer.
Feb 23, 2021
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Does the COVID recession still have the potential to turn into a broader financial meltdown?
Jan 26, 2021
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Given the mounting need to create good jobs, effect structural change, and transform the economy, what should policy priorities be in the digital era? Is there a role for industrial policy? What new policy options do we need to achieve inclusive prosperity?
Jan 19, 2021
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What are the choices we must make to ensure technology empowers, augments, rewards, and respects the majority, not the few, given its increasing defining role in future economies and societies?
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Traditional welfare systems have emphasized the need for redistribution post-production. Are these policies sufficient in the future?
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Can developing countries cope with high debt levels? How dire is the situation? Has the policy response been adequate? And what’s the situation in private external debt, and what should be done about private creditors? This edition of Debt Talks will discuss the situation in developing country debt during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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