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Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council... 2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit ...

Kristin Forbes, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Tradeoffs and Sacrifice over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level" ...

2025, Panel Discussion, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "The Steep Decline in Global Fertility: Causes and Consequences" ...

We examine the impact of encouragement emails sent to high-performing students in a principles of microeconomics course at a large state university, aimed at motivating them to take additional ...

The period after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was characterized by a considerable risk migration within global liquidity flows, away from cross-border bank lending towards international bond ...

Using limitations to the deductibility of interest payments triggered by the introduction of interest ceiling rules globally, we show that affected private firms reduce leverage relative to unaffected ...

This paper examines partisanship in public perceptions of the Federal Reserve. In all years from 2001 through 2023, trust in the Federal Reserve was highest for respondents of the same party as the ...

How good is AI at persuading humans to perform costly actions? We study calls made to get delinquent consumer borrowers to repay. Regression discontinuity and a randomized experiment reveal that AI is ...

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We introduce the concept of racial capital, defined as the collective material and non- material assets of the racial groups to which a child is exposed while growing up, and examine its potential to ...

In this paper, we develop a simple model to show that, holding the total number of experiments constant, markets dominated by a few large-scale experimenters- firms conducting multiple experiments- ...