"Further evidence on inflation targeting and income distribution," by @jtcoys.bsky.social of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and Chrysovalantis Vasilakis of @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. #IncomeDistribution #InflationTargeting #MonetaryPolicy ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

C. Richard Higgins of @colgate.edu and Irfan A. Qureshi of @adb.org examine the macroeconomic impact of changing central bank leadership. #MonetaryPolicy #Inflation

"Enhancing resilience with natural growth targeting," by Athanasios Orphanides of MIT. #FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #Pandemic ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Joshua Hendrickson of @olemiss.bsky.social makes the case for a nominal GDP level target in the United States. #FederalReserve #MonetaryPolicy #NominalGDP

"The fate of FAIT: Salvaging the Fed's framework," by @davidbeckworth.bsky.social of the Mercatus Center and Patrick J. Horan of Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill. #FederalReserve #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy

Lawrence H. White of @georgemasonu.bsky.social explores if the Federal Reserve should raise its inflation target. #FederalReserve #Inflation #Recession ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Monetarism and Monetary Policy," by Robert L. Hetzel of the Mercatus Center. #FederalReserve #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy

Louis Rouanet of University of Texas, El Paso and Alexander William Salter of @ttu.edu examine mission creep at the Federal Reserve. #FederalReserve #BankingPolicy #MonetaryPolicy

"How the Federal Reserve got so huge, and why and how it can shrink," by Bill Nelson of Bank Policy Institute. #FederalReserve #BankLiquidity #MonetaryPolicy

Thomas L. Hogan of University of Austin considers the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve's forward guidance in the 2020–2022 recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic. #FederalReserve #ForwardGuidance #COVID19

"The devolution of federal reserve monetary policy strategy, 2012–24," by Peter N. Ireland of @bostoncollege.bsky.social. #FederalReserve #DualMandate #PhillipsCurve ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Carola Binder of University of Texas at Austin discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States. #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy #FederalReserve

The symposium introduction by Bryan P. Cutsinger and William J. Luther of Florida Atlantic University reviews the Federal Reserve's monetary policy framework introduced in August 2020. #Greedflation #Inflation #MonetaryPolicy

The Presidential Address by Gary A. Hoover of @tulaneu.bsky.social examines where poverty in the United States stands today and how we got here. #Poverty #AmericanFamilies

Camilo Abbate of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, Jeffrey Cross of Hamilton College, and Richard Uhrig of the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate the effect of objective review systems on home field advantage in soccer. #VideoAssistantReferee #ReviewSystems #Bias

"The paradox of transfers: Distribution and the Dutch disease," by Nazanin Behzadan of University of Prince Edward Island and Richard Chisik of @torontomet.bsky.social. #InternationalTrade #ForeignAid #Remittances ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Garth Heutel of @gsueconomics.bsky.social documents evidence for Giffen behavior in the demand for theme park rides. #ConsumerTheory #Demand #Recreation

"Income inequality, banking competition, and monetary policy," by Edgar A. Ghossoub of @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social and Robert R. Reed of @uofalabama.bsky.social. #Inflation #Banking #Income

Seung-Hun Chung of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and Ahmad Shah Mobariz of St. Olaf College investigate the influence of South Korea's exceptionally low fertility rate on neighboring China, particularly the Korean Chinese community. #Fertility #CulturalSimilarities #OpenBorders

"The color of coronavirus," by Cong S. Pham of @deakinuniversity.bsky.social and @devashishmitra.bsky.social of @maxwellsu.bsky.social. #COVID19 #PublicHealth #IncomeInequality #HealthInsurance ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Patrick Horan of the Fiscal Lab on Capitol Hill examines Milton Friedman's work and his views on nominal income targeting. #MiltonFriedman #MonetaryPolicy #NominalIncome #InflationTargeting

"What philosophy can teach political economy about corruption: A non-ideal theory," by @mjuarezgarcia.bsky.social of @tulaneu.bsky.social. #Corruption #Philosophy #PoliticalEconomy ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

@marlytati.bsky.social, Vitezslav Titl, and @publicprocurement.bsky.social of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social examine the impact of changes in discretionary thresholds in the Czech Republic in 2012 and 2016 on discretion misuse and market competition. #PoliticalFavoritism #Procurement ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Foreign aid and corruption: Unveiling the obstacles to effective development," by Carlos Bethencourt and Fernando Perera-Tallo of @ull.es. #Corruption #ForeignAid #GrowthTheory ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Jamie Bologna Pavlik of @ttu.edu and Justin T. Callais of Archbridge Institute examine the relationship between corruption and income inequality across countries. #Corruption #Income #Inequality

"Exploring the corruption-inefficiency nexus using an endogenous stochastic frontier analysis," by Massimo Finocchiaro Castro of Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and Calogero Guccio of University of Catania. #Corruption #Endogeneity #Efficiency ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Vladimir Hlasny and @thomas-kalinowski.bsky.social of Ewha Womans University investigate how changes in inequality affect changes in corruption, controlling for comparative political economy factors. #Corruption #Inequality ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Does corruption discriminate? Racial opportunity gap in the United States," by Oguzhan Dincer of @illinoisstateu.bsky.social and Gary Hoover of @tulaneu.bsky.social. #Corruption #Discrimination #EconomicInequality #Racism

The symposium introduction by Oguzhan Dincer of @illinoisstateu.bsky.social, Michael Johnston of @colgate.edu, and Gary A. Hoover of @tulaneu.bsky.social outlines the political economy of corruption and topics that will be discussed in this special issue. #Corruption #Governance

"Did the affordable care act increase the availability of employer-sponsored health insurance?" by @conornomics.bsky.social of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. #ACA #EmployerMandate #HealthOutcomes

Joseph V. Terza of Indiana University Indianapolis offers teachers of econometrics a pedagogical approach for introducing Ph.D. students to asymptotic inference for two-stage M-estimators. #Asymptotics #Endogeneity ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Pedagogical practices and the gender gap in economics education," by Bryan Engelhardt, Marianne Johnson, and Sarinda Siemers of @uwoshkosh.bsky.social. #GenderGap #StudentEffort #LearningOutcomes

Yating Chuang of Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica examines peer effects on self-control problems by constructing a theoretical model to describe how peer networks influence consumption behaviors through social norms. #Consumption #Networks #PeerEffects

"Separating insider and informed behavior: Evidence from a natural setting," by Tadgh Hegarty of @ucddublin.bsky.social. #InsiderTrading #MarketEfficiency ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Andrew Farrant of Dickinson College and @vladtarko.bsky.social of @uarizona.bsky.social invoke a wealth of previously ignored primary source material that sheds significant new light on James M. Buchanan's early 1980s involvement with Chile. #Chile #Democracy #Dictatorship

"Does political conflict hurt immigration? Evidence from the South Korea–China THAAD dispute," by @himakun.bsky.social of @upenn.edu and Jongkwan Lee of Yonsei University. #China #SouthKorea #PoliticalConflict #Immigration #EconomicSanctions

Nicholas A. Curott of @ballstate.bsky.social and Lawrence H. White of @georgemasonu.bsky.social explain how Adam Smith's monetary and banking policy advice did not serve either Alexander Hamilton's or Thomas Jefferson's political agenda. #CentralBanking #FreeBanking

"The skilled worker premium and labor's share of income: Recent trends in U.S. manufacturing," by Norman Sedgley of Loyola University Maryland and Bruce Elmslie of University of New Hampshire. #SkillPremium #Outsourcing #MarketConcentration

Ahadul Kabir Muyeed of A2F Consulting and Ruoning Han of @whitmancollege.bsky.social examine how microfinance lenders design their loan contracts to motivate borrower repayments under competition. #Competition #DynamicIncentives #Microfinance

"Purchase discounts on federal holidays and adjacent shopping holidays: Evidence from the airline industry," by @aluttmann.bsky.social of The MITRE Corporation and Alberto A. Gaggero of University of Aosta Valley. #AirlinePricing #Competition #PriceDiscrimination

@nonicoc.bsky.social of IFN & @vsecz.bsky.social and Christian Bjørnskov of IFN & Aarhus University test empirically whether the concern that capitalism disfavors women is justified. #Capitalism #EconomicFreedom #GenderDifferences ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

"Unemployment insurance and opioid prescriptions during the great recession," by Xiaohui Guo of Capital University of Economics and Business and Lizhong Peng of @uwestga.bsky.social. #GreatRecession #PrescriptionOpioids #UnemploymentInsurance

. @amalkova.bsky.social of @floridatech.bsky.social analyzes the changes in banks' branch concentration and their effect on borrowers' choices of being self-employed. #CreditMarket #LaborMobility #SelfEmployment

"Institutional heterogeneity in the education and earnings returns to postsecondary technical education: Evidence from Missouri," by Maxwell J. Cook, Cory Koedel, and Michael Reda of University of Missouri. #TechnicalProgram #CommunityCollege #PostsecondaryEducation

The Presidential Address by Arthur H. Goldsmith and James F. Casey of Washington and Lee University explains how the 4th Industrial Revolution has fostered job polarization, greater technological unemployment, and increasing wage inequality. #USEconomy #LaborMarket

Michael Cooper of @ucsandiego.bsky.social and @mikepesko.bsky.social of University of Missouri estimate the effect of county-level e-cigarette indoor vaping restrictions (IVRs) on infant mortality using United States birth certificates from 2010 to 2015. #ECigarettes #TobaccoControl

"Does quitting smoking increase obesity? Evidence that accounts for misreporting," by Rusty Tchernis and @kteltser.bsky.social of @gsueconomics.bsky.social, and Arjun Teotia of @henryfordhealth.bsky.social. #Smoking #Obesity #BMI

. @jeffreypclemens.bsky.social of @ucsandiego.bsky.social and Michael Wither of Powerlytics Inc investigate when tinkering with safety net programs is harmful to beneficiaries. #HealthInsurance #LaborMarkets #SafetyNet

"Revisiting the connection between state Medicaid expansions and adult mortality," by Antonios M. Koumpias of University of Michigan-Dearborn, Charles Courtemanche of @universityofky.bsky.social, Jordan W. Jones of USDA-ERS, and Daniela Zapata of @airinforms.bsky.social. #PublicHealth ⬇️OPEN ACCESS⬇️

Derek Hoodin of @abtglobal.bsky.social, James Marton of @gsueconomics.bsky.social, and @benukert.bsky.social of @tamu.bsky.social examine if those with chronic health conditions benefit from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion. #ACA #Medicaid #HealthInsurance #ChronicHealth