Monthly Archives: January 2020

Surviving the Perfect Storm: Exports, Fiscal Austerity, and Firm Heterogeneity

By | January 7, 2020

Courtesy of Manuel Adelino, Paulo Fagandini, Miguel Ferreira, and Francisco Queiro How do economically depressed areas recover following a recession? Our recent paper uses the 2010–2011 European sovereign debt crisis and a Euro area periphery country as a laboratory to answer this question. The 2010–2011 European sovereign debt crisis led to a severe recession in… Read More »

The Unintended Consequences of Deregulation: Equity Markets under the JOBS Act

By | January 2, 2020

Courtesy of Anantha Divakaruni and Howard Jones Eugene Schieffelin was a Shakespeare fan determined to introduce to the New World every species of bird appearing in the works of The Bard. In 1890 he released 100 of the European starlings mentioned in Henry VI in New York’s Central Park. Schieffelin’s starlings multiplied quickly and spread across… Read More »