Former President Donald Trump has promised to attack the United States affordability crisis by imposing immense tariffs, carrying out unprecedented deportations and even influencing interest rate ...

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Economists generally agree that competition is good, and that markets with only a few dominant players are inefficient. We may need to take a hard look in the mirror. According to a new working paper, ...

The economics world has countless people doing fascinating research, and as much as we try at Planet Money, there's a lot of stuff that we don't end up covering. So periodically, we like to do a ...

We at Planet Money often scan new economic research for interesting ideas or evidence about the economy or, more broadly, the world around us. Sometimes this research informs our podcasts. Sometimes ...

During the Biden Administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed new rules to protect workers from heat exposure. The intent of this regulation was to improve worker ...

Using a large cross-country dataset covering over 150 countries and more than 10 macroeconomic variables, this study examines the consistency of IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecasts with the ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The Mundell-Fleming IS-LM approach has guided generations of economists over the past 60 years. But countries have ...

Khanna, Gaurav, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Daniel Ramos-Menchelli, Jorge Tamayo, and Audrey Tiew. "Spatial Mobility, Economic Opportunity, and Crime." Harvard ...