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The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) revolutionized modern finance. Developed in the early 1960s by William Sharpe, Jack Treynor, John Lintner and Jan Mossin, the model provided the first coherent ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 introduced sweeping changes to individual and corporate taxation. We summarize the major provisions, trace the origins of the Act, and compare it to previous ...

This paper describes two strands of work that converged under the heading of 'endogenous growth.' One strand, which is primarily empirical, asks whether there is a general tendency for poor countries ...

About Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty. Published in volume 105, issue 5, pages 48-53 of American Economic Review, May 2015, Abstract: In this article, I present three key facts ...

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford lauded for their work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic fluctuations.

This article studies the full equilibrium dynamics of an economy with financial frictions. Due to highly nonlinear amplification effects, the economy is prone to instability and occasionally enters ...

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty neighborhoods. We analyze MTO's impacts on ...

Behavioral Economics: Past, Present, and Future by Richard H. Thaler. Published in volume 106, issue 7, pages 1577-1600 of American Economic Review, July 2016 ...