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Business Cycle Dating | NBER
The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee maintains a chronology of US business cycles. The chronology identifies the months of peaks and troughs of economic activity. Expansions …
Working Papers | NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research
The NBER distributes more than 1,200 Working Papers each year. Papers issued more than 18 months ago are open access. More recent papers are available without charge to affiliates of …
How the US-China Trade War Affected the Rest of the World
U pendin g a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade flows in 2018 and 2019. These tariff …
Research | NBER
Since World War II, the Federal Reserve’s most effective campaigns against inflation have been characterized by clear-cut goals, a willingness to accept higher unemployment, and a refusal …
Unpacking the Causes of Pandemic-Era Inflation in the US
The annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 1.7 percent in February 2021 but rose to more than 5 percent in June 2021. It continued rising for another year, …
Conferences | NBER
Conferences. The NBER convenes over 120 meetings each year at which researchers share and discuss their latest findings and launch new projects. The Summer Institute, a collection of …
Publications - NBER
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Wealth Inequality in the United States - NBER
Jun 30, 2021 — However, from 2016 to 2019 there was actually a small decline in inequality, with the top percentile share down by 1.4 percentage points, the Gini coefficient down by 0.008, …
The Economic Impact of Climate Change over Time and Space
Jan 5, 2022 — By Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. Climate change is an unintended consequence of the industrialization of the world economy. The evidence that human activity …