Article | Environment
The Promise and Limits of Carbon Pricing
Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.
By Ryan Rafaty, Geoffroy Dolphin, and Felix Pretis
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To Save the Economy, Save People First
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Article | Government & Politics, Labor
How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By fully utilizing the power of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), President Biden could take meaningful steps to keep workers safe during the pandemic, even without Congress’s help
By David Michaels and Gregory R. Wagner
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Article | Government & Politics
How Corruption is Becoming America’s Operating System
New book by Sarah Chayes reveals the country’s descent into a level of corruption usually associated with places like Nigeria and Afghanistan
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What is Feminist Economics?
“All of us, if we get old enough, need to be taken care of.”
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Working Paper | Environment
Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of CO2 Emissions
Carbon pricing still has the potential to be a powerful tool contributing to emissions reductions, but it is clearly no panacea.
By Ryan Rafaty, Geoffroy Dolphin, and Felix Pretis
In this paper we analyze the Gilens dataset using the complementary tools of Random Forest classifiers (RFs), from Machine Learning.
Working Paper | Government & Politics
Shadow Lobbyists
Unregistered lobbyists, including former members of Congress, are a key resource for lobbying firms
By Rocco d’Este, Mirko Draca, and Christian Fons-Rosen
Our findings confirm the existence of a negative relationship between labor market slack and the wage share, and we find no tendency to return to a ‘normal’ unemployment rate associated with a stable wage share.
Working Paper | Finance
Masters of Illusion: Bank and Regulatory Accounting for Losses in Distressed Banks
The study seeks to explain why the instruments of central banking inevitably break down over time.
Working Paper | Government & Politics
Voting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South
How NAFTA led to GOP dominance of the American South
By Gavin Wright
Nov 10, 2020
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