Archive
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Years granted: 2013, 2014A Theory of Financial Market Instability Even Under Perfect Conditions: Bubbles and Crashes in Rational Belief Equilibrium
This research project seeks to develop a theory of how bubbles and crashes can arise even when all agents are rational, informed, and trading in perfect markets.
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Years granted: 2013, 2014Dynamic Contagion Mechanisms in Financial Networks
This research project develops a novel framework to capture both instantaneous and dynamic contagion mechanisms arising in financial networks when balance sheet linkages across entities exist.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Correlations in Complex Heterogeneous Networks
This research project uses statistical physics and network analysis to understand and explain the contagion and panic effects associated with crises that are unexplained in standard economic models.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014A Network-Based Analysis of Financial Markets
This research project explores the sources of and remedies for financial instability as well as the relationship between traders’ choice of a price-setting mechanism and market structure and the relationship between market freezes and the amount of intermediation in the market.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Free from What? Evolving Notions of 'Market Freedom' in the History and Contemporary Practice of US Antitrust Law and Economics
This research project investigates the reasons behind the US financial crisis by applying the tools of the history of economic thought to the postwar evolution of US antitrust law and economic
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Financing Innovation: An Application of a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis
This research project integrates two research paradigms to understand the degree to which financial markets can be reformed in order to nurture value creation and :capital development” rather than value extraction and destruction.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Sraffa
This research project contends that Piero Sraffa tried to develop an economic theory that could stand up as an alternative to the orthodox theory of value and provide a foundation for the Keynesian and post-Keynesian alternatives.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014The Long Run History of Economic Inequality: Income, Wealth and Financial Crisis
This research project establishes a long-run global picture of economic inequality as revealed by fiscal records and analyzes the long-run drivers of inequality as well as the distributional impact of banking crises.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Just Growth? Social Equity and Metropolitan Economic Performance
This research project incorporates recent US data to update empirical analyses of regional growth and utilizes case study strategies of American regions to investigate the underlying causal mechanisms of inequality.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014The Southern Homestead Act and Black Economic Mobility
This research project follows freed slaves from when they first applied for their land under the Southern Homestead Act until 1900 to learn how access to free land influenced their economic progress.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Distributional Impacts of Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Approach
This research project addresses a need for a more comprehensive estimation of the distributional impact of various policies attempting to limit carbon emissions in the United States.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Replication in Empirical Economics
This research project replicates a large number of studies by teaching replication to students, with the results included in a wiki project about the replicability of research.
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Years granted: 2012, 2013, 2014Understanding Macroeconomic Fragility
This research project provides insights into how the lending market and resale market for asset-backed securities could have broken down during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, leading to a near-collapse of the banking sector and to a significant decline in real loan activity.
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Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014Hierarchy, Identity, and Collective Action
This research project explores the interaction between group identities and decisions to engage in collective action to secure access to public goods, such as education.
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Years granted: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014A Large Scale Network Analysis of Firm Trade Credit
This research project proposes a large-scale simulation of how distress and growth propagate through the real economy via a network of trade credit between firms.