Finance

This research project develops, estimates, calibrates, and deploys a new class of stock flow consistent macroeconomic models to try to understand Ireland’s macroeconomic collapse since 2007.

The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF are the continent’s austerity police

Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.

How Investor-owned Physician Practices Are Driving up Healthcare Costs

Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau

We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that they devote to political risks.

When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class

Richard Vague and Rob Johnson discuss the role of excessive lending in causing financial crises throughout history