Working Papers
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Working Paper Series
The Role of Public REITs in Financialization and Industry Restructuring
Jul 2022
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.
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Monetary Policy for the Climate? A Money View Perspective on Green Central Banking
Jul 2022
Central banks can encourage climate-friendly investments by offering financial institutions favorable haircuts on green collateral
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Permanent Scars: The Effects of Wages on Productivity
Jul 2022
A persistent regime of low wages may determine very negative long-term consequences on the economy.
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Pari Passu Lost and Found: The Origins of Sovereign Bankruptcy 1798-1873
Jun 2022
Pari passu clauses were deliberately crafted to gain an upper hand in sovereign bankruptcy disputes brought to the London stock exchange’s jurisdiction
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Inflation in the Time of Corona and War
Jun 2022
Are there alternative, less socially costly, ways to bring inflation down?
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Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist W. H. Hutt and James M. Buchanan
Jun 2022
Despite his opposition to South Africa’s apartheid, Hutt embraced notions of black inferiority
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Government Deficits and Interest Rates: A Keynesian View
Apr 2022
Contrary to the neoclassical loanable funds theory, historical bond yields show Keynes was right that “convictions” anchor long-term interest rates
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Investing in Innovation: A Policy Framework for Attaining Sustainable Prosperity in the United States
Apr 2022
Business firms are not alone in making investments in the productive capabilities required to generate innovative goods and services. Household units and government agencies also make investments in productive capabilities upon which business firms rely for their own investment activities.
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An Economic Defense of Multiple Antitrust Goals: Reversing Income Inequality and Promoting Political Democracy
Mar 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard of antitrust is outdated and defective
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After the Allocation: What Role for the Special Drawing Rights System?
Mar 2022
How could the new SDR allocation help developing countries?
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Measuring the Impact of Campaign Finance on Congressional Voting: A Machine Learning Approach
Mar 2022
Using aggregate campaign finance data as well as a Transformer based text embedding model we can predict roll call votes for legislation in the US Congress with more than 90% accuracy.
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Equality Denied: Tech and African Americans
Feb 2022
EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?
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Working Paper Series
Pricing for Medicine Innovation: A Regulatory Approach to Support Drug Development and Patient Access
Feb 2022
US regulators can step in to ensure drug pricing both supports patient access and drug development
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Why Diagnostic Expectations Cannot Replace REH
Jan 2022
A formal argument that Kahneman and Tversky’s compelling empirical findings, and those of other behavioral economists, do not provide a basis for a general approach to specifying participants’ “predictable errors.”
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Industrial Feudalism and Wealth Inequalities
Jan 2022
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility become severely diminished