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Johns Hopkins – Carey Business School
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Chapter 24
of “Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investments” by Geltner, Miller, Clayton and Eichholtz.
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Global House Prices: Trends and Cycles
Chapter 7
on “Managing House Price Booms: Evolution of IMF Surveillance and Policy Advice”.
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2020 (67)
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June (1)
U.S. Housing Markets and the COVID-19 Crisis: EconoFact
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May (3)
COVID-19 will raise inequality if past pandemics are a guide
Lockdowns averted 650,000 Covid-19 deaths
Algorithmic economics and how it might help recovery from Covid-19
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April (12)
Forecasting Turning Points: An Update
A Look at Demographia's Latest Housing Affordability Survey
Housing View – April 17, 2020
The German housing market cycle: Answers to FAQs
Sneak Preview of COVID-19 Impact on U.S. Job Market
Housing View – April 10, 2020
How many jobs can be done at home?
Room to Grow: Housing for a New Economy
FT editorial: “Radical reforms are required to forge a society that will work for all”
New Measure of Pandemic Uncertainty: COVID-19 is all-time high
Housing View – April 3, 2020
The Economic Consequences of the Virus: Views of Top Macroeconomists
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March (9)
Housing View – March 27, 2020
Housing View – March 20, 2020
Flattening the Pandemic and Recession Curves
Coronavirus Response Should Include Urgent Fiscal Policy Measures to Address Financial Hardship, Stave Off a Severe Recession
Housing View – March 13, 2020
Operationalizing Inclusive Growth: Per-Percentile Diagnostics to Inform Redistribution Policies
Housing View – March 6, 2020
House Prices in Australia
Transitory and Permanent Shocks in the Global Market for Crude Oil
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February (26)
House Prices in Malaysia
Foreign Demand and Local House Prices: Evidence from the US
Household Debt and House Prices-at-risk: A Tale of Two Countries
Economists should learn lessons from meteorologists
Housing View – February 28, 2020
Mobility and Political Upheaval in an Age of Inequality
Untangling India's Distinctive Economic Story
How Affordable is Housing? Insights from a New Data Set
Housing View – February 21, 2020
The accuracy of long-term growth forecasts by economics researchers
Distributional Implications of Labor Market Reforms: Learning from Spain's Experience
House prices in Croatia
Property price dynamics: domestic and international drivers
What makes capital cities the best places to live?
Housing View – February 14, 2020
Construction Activity Can Signal When Credit Booms Go Wrong
Scottish Home Prices: Compatible with Euro Membership?
Growth divergence and income inequality in OECD countries: the role of trade and financial openness
A just transition must help those struggling to heat their homes
Disappearing Cities: Demographic Headwinds and their Impact on Japan’s Housing Market
Philippines: Is Real Estate Credit a Concern?
Housing View – February 7, 2020
Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth
Why Economists Should Act More Like Weather Forecasters
Annual US CO2 Emissions, 1987 to 2030 (est.)
Guyana: Housing Market and Implications for Macroprudential Policies
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January (16)
Housing View – January 31, 2020
Six Charts Explain South Africa's Inequality
Housing View – January 24, 2020
As California comes to grips with housing crisis, Texas real estate rises in 2020
House prices in Estonia
International Effects of Stock Market Dispersion
The (Subjective) Well-Being Cost of Fiscal Policy Shocks
Predicting Downside Risks to House Prices and Macro-Financial Stability
Finance and Inequality
Housing View – January 17, 2020
House prices in Finland
Central Banks and Climate Change
House Prices in Peru
Experts Confer on the State of the U.S. Rental Housing Market
Housing View – January 10, 2020
Housing View – January 2, 2020 [2020 AEA Annual Meeting Special Edition]
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2019 (288)
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December (18)
Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle
The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
Housing View – December 13, 2019
Top Ten Posts of 2019
Paul Volcker: 1927-2019
Housing Market in Cyprus
China’s Productivity Convergence and Growth Potential—A Stocktaking and Sectoral Approach
A Look at Housing Affordability in Asia
Views from housing market experts
Local Capital Scarcity and Small Firm Growth: Evidence from Real Estate Booms in China
Housing View – December 6, 2019
Accuracy and Determinants of Self-Assessed Euro Area House Prices
Housing Market in Hungary
South and Midwest Regions are Gaining Larger Share of Homebuyers
Summer reading list for the Prime Minister 2019
Chile’s insurgency and the end of neoliberalism
The aggregate and distributional effects of financial globalisation
The interplay between national and parental unemployment in relation to adolescent life satisfaction in 27 countries
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November (15)
Housing View – November 29, 2019
Finance and decarbonisation: why equity markets do it better
A profile of Harvard’s Edward Glaeser
Housing View – November 22, 2019
A Look at the Evolution of Credit as a Policy Tool
Should Monetary Policy Take Inequality and Climate Change into Account?
Assessing House Prices in Canada
Housing View – November 15, 2019
How developing countries can get ahead
Resolving the missing deflation and inflation puzzles
Empirical Analysis of Labor Markets over Business Cycles
Unemployment insurance schemes around the world: Evidence and policy options
Housing View – November 8, 2019
Who deserves the Nobel for China’s economic development?
Housing View – November 1, 2019
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October (23)
CBO’s Economic Forecasting Record: 2019 Update
Building Urban Resilience: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Evolving Experience (2007-2017)
Geography of desperation in America
Trade effects of 3D printing (that you didn’t hear about)
Housing View – October 25, 2019
The Phillips curve: Dead or alive
Understanding the rise in second-home buying
Housing policies to combat the affordability crisis
Housing View – October 18, 2019
The link between declining middle-wage jobs, rising wage inequality, and worker welfare
Putting Economic Policy to the Test: An economist’s real-life experiments yield surprising results
Recession 2020?
Drilling Down: The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on Housing Prices
Housing View – October 11, 2019
Reigniting Growth in Emerging Market and Low-Income Economies: What Role for Structural Reforms?
Housing market in Thailand
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State – Book Review
Changing business cycles: The role of women’s employment
We cannot build our way out of inequality
Housing View – October 4, 2019
Structural Reforms and Election: Evidence from a World-Wide New Dataset
To Tackle Housing Affordability in Canada, Build More Houses
How Mexico’s Social Spending Reduced Poverty and Income Inequality
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September (21)
Tracking uncertainty across the globe
The Phillips Curve: a Relation between Real Exchange Rate Growth and Unemployment
Private Sector Job Creation in MENA: Prioritizing the Reform Agenda
Beyond Growth: Towards A New Economic Approach
Housing View – September 27, 2019
Public economics and public policy: The ideas and influence of Martin Feldstein, 1939-2019
How Should We Measure City Size? Theory and Evidence Within and Across Rich and Poor Countries
Housing Affordability in New Zealand
Housing View – September 20, 2019
Advancing Inclusive Growth in Cambodia
House prices in Mongolia
Evaluating housing affordability policies: What works?
Manufacturing Jobs and Inequality: Why is the U.S. Experience Different?
House Prices in Namibia
Housing View – September 13, 2019
Reallocating Public Spending to Reduce Income Inequality: Can It Work?
Fixing Capitalism
Understanding what works for active labour market policies
Macroeconomic and Financial Policies for Climate Change Mitigation: A Review of the Literature
The Global Liveability Index 2019
Housing Market in Saudi Arabia
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August (9)
Attempting to Avoid a Recession: Fortune or Folly?
Housing markets and inequality
Lessons in economics from Algeria’s victory in the Africa Cup of Nations
Good for the environment, good for business: Foreign acquisitions and energy intensity
House Prices in China
Labor Market Slack and the Output Gap: The Case of Korea
House Prices in Latvia
Monetary Policy, Housing Rents and Inflation Dynamics
House Prices in Indonesia
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July (28)
House Prices in Lithuania
Designing Good Labour Market Institutions: How to Reconcile Flexibility, Productivity and Security?
Residential Mobility and Unemployment in the UK
A Hesitant Transition: Renewable Energy Growth and Carbon Emissions
Housing Market in France
Okun's Law--Sectoral and Cross Country Differences
Costs of Recessions
Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks
Decoupling-Debunked
Recession Forecasts Are So Bad, They're Good
Intergenerational mobility in Italy: Income distribution and regional analysis
Housing View – July 19, 2019
Why Is Inflation Low Globally?
Housing Market in Singapore
The effects of global warming on rural–urban migrations
Explaining High Unemployment in ECCU Countries
Housing Market in Slovak Republic
Is There a Relationship between Inflation and Unemployment?
Real Estate Prices in Portugal
Housing View – July 12, 2019
Housing Market in the Euro Area
Housing Market in Germany
Wealth Inequality and Private Savings in Germany
Grenada : Climate Change Policy Assessment
Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
Housing View – July 5, 2019
Robots and Firms---A fresh perspective
Summer Reading: Recommendations by Experts on Housing Markets
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June (20)
Housing View – June 28, 2019
Assessing House Prices in Canada
U.S. Housing Market
Housing Market in Denmark
Housing View – June 21, 2019
Managing House Price Booms: Evolution of IMF Surveillance and Policy Advice
The return of the policy that shall not be named: Principles of industrial policy
Housing Market in Ireland
Some Snapshots of the Global Energy Situation
Housing Market in Czech Republic
Housing View – June 14, 2019
House Prices in Norway
RIP Marty Feldstein
IMF's Ian Parry receives the IAEE's 2019 annual prize for outstanding contributions to the field
GDP and beyond: New Zealand's well-being budget prioritizes gross national well-being
Understanding Housing Finance: Views from Susan Wachter
Housing View – June 6, 2019
Animated chart of US oil production by state, 1981-2018
Stranded! How Rising Inequality Suppressed US Migration and Hurt Those Left Behind
Qatar: Property Market Update
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May (24)
The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics
Housing View – May 31, 2019
A case for second-best solutions in climate policy
Housing View – May 24, 2019
Shorter working weeks needed to tackle climate crisis
How inequality makes us poorer
Climate Change Heterogeneity
The Rise of Robots in China
Daniel Hamermesh: How Do People Spend Time?
Energy and the Military: Leading by Example
The new globalisation and income inequality
Housing View – May 17, 2019
Evolution of Macroprudential Policies in Korea
Housing Market in Luxembourg
Housing Market in Macao
Housing View – May 10, 2019
Snapshots of US Income Taxation Over Time
Is Something Different this Time about the Effect of Technology on Labor Markets?
Globalization, Market Power, and the Natural Interest Rate
Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates
The next US recession is likely to be around the corner
The Great Divide: Regional Inequality and Fiscal Policy
The next US recession is likely to be around the corner
Housing View – May 3, 2019
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April (31)
Revisiting the causal effect of democracy on long-run development
Shadows and lights of globalization
Housing View – April 26, 2019
Forty years of inequality in Europe: Evidence from distributional national accounts
18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year
Employee wellbeing, productivity, and firm performance: Evidence from 1.8 million employees
Promotions and the Peter Principle
School finance equalisation increases intergenerational mobility
Understanding Housing Supply: Views from Jenny Schuetz
Housing View – April 19, 2019
The Captain Swing Riots; Workers and Threshing Machines in the 1830s
It’s too soon for optimism about convergence
House Prices in Myanmar
Housing View – April 12, 2019
Inclusive development in Africa
Stability of the labour shares: evidence from OECD economies
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the richest of them all?
Rethinking the Phillips Curve: Inflation May Rise Modestly Next Year
An Assessment of the IMF’s Unemployment Forecasts
Illuminating Economic Growth
Subjective Models of the Macroeconomy: Evidence From Experts and a Representative Sample
Measuring unemployment and labor-force participation
Universal Basic Income: The Promise vs the Practicalities
The Power of Two: Inclusive Growth and the IMF
Housing View – April 5, 2019
Assessing the Risk of the Next Housing Bust
The missing link between income inequality and economic growth: Inequality of opportunity
Housing Market in Kuwait
Monetary Policy, Growth and Employment in Developing Areas: A Review of the Literature
Some US Social Indicators Since 1960
As income pie shrinks, Ottawa and business community talk past each other
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March (31)
Housing Market in Sweden
Accounting for Urban China’s Rising Income Inequality: The Roles of the Labor Market, Human Capital, and Marriage Market Factors
I’m taking Friday off—permanently
Work of the past, work of the future
Housing View – March 29, 2019
News-driven inflation expectations and information rigidities
The Return of the Policy That Shall Not Be Named: Principles of Industrial Policy
Climate Change and the Federal Reserve
Housing Market in San Marino
Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions
The Structural Determinants of the Labor Share in Europe
House Prices in Bulgaria
The Remarkable Renaissance in US Fossil Fuel Production
Housing View – March 22, 2019
Fundamental and Speculative Demands for Housing
The Total Risk Premium Puzzle
Assessing House Prices with Prudential and Valuation Measures
China’s investment in coal power
Unemployment Surges in the EU: The Role of Risk Premium Shocks
Paul Cheshire on Urban Economics
Housing View – March 15, 2019
Optimising Production: Industrial Policies in Networks
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Sources of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Housing Market in Belgium
Housing Market in Malaysia
How finance affects income inequality
Housing View – March 8, 2019
Housing Market in Malta
A profile of Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar of inequality
Housing View – March 1, 2019
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February (34)
Macro reasons to loath protectionism
Macroeconomic Gains from Reforming the Agri-Food Sector: The Case of France
Macro Aspects of Housing
Are Labor Market Indicators Telling the Truth? Role of Measurement Error in the U.S. Current Population Survey
Gross National Happiness and Macro Indicators in Bhutan
Housing Market in Australia
Housing View – February 22, 2019
Real exchange rates for economic development
The whys and wherefores of short-time work: Evidence from 20 countries
Some Proposals for Improving Work, Wages, and Skills for Americans
Wellbeing measurements, Easterlin’s paradox and new growth models: A perspective through gross national happiness
Housing Market in Slovenia
Housing Market in Nepal
Labour mobility and adjustment to shocks in the euro area: The role of immigrants
The forecasting record
Two hundred years of health and medical care
The China shock and its impact on income inequality in Vietnam
A Look at Housing, Mobility and Welfare
Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP)
Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income and Economic Growth
Housing View – February 15, 2019
Housing Market in Croatia
Housing Market in the Netherlands
Subsidising labour hoarding in recessions: New evidence from Italy’s Cassa Integrazione
Fiscal Policy and Development : Human, Social, and Physical Investments for the SDGs
Improving Youth Labor Market Outcomes in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Dani Rodrik on Industrial Policies
Housing View – February 8, 2019
House Prices in Italy
Housing Market in Poland
58 Episodes of Hyperinflation (Venezuela is #23)
Building an adequate U.S. labor and social protection system for the 21st century
Housing Market in the United Arab Emirates
Housing View – February 1, 2019
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January (34)
Budget Deficits and Debt: Background and Tradeoffs
Stock market turbulence: is US recession risk rising?
Revenue Mobilization and Inequality in Senegal
Gender Gaps in Senegal: From Education to Labor Market
Natural Resources in Senegal Before and After the Recent Oil and Gas Discoveries
Beyond Okun’s law: Introducing labour market flows
A Comparison of Alternative Programs for Climate Policies
Commodity Terms of Trade: A New Database
Ukraine: Residential Property Price Index
Housing Market in Hong Kong
Housing View – January 25, 2019
Does Ultra-Low Unemployment Spur Rapid Wage Growth?
Predicting recessions using term spread at the zero lower bound: The case of the euro area
The Inequality Paradox: Rising Inequalities Nationally, Diminishing Inequality Worldwide
A Global Human Capital Index
Intergenerational mobility in the US: One size doesn’t fit all
Public good or private wealth?
Is there a middle-income trap? Singular growth patterns in Panama
Gross National Happiness and Macroeconomic Indicators in the Kingdom of Bhutan
Housing View – January 18, 2019
Public Debt Through the Ages
Special Issue: The Appropriate Role of Government in U.S. Mortgage Markets
Resource Booms and the Macroeconomy: The Case of U.S. Shale Oil
Housing Market in Finland
The Key to Gentrification
Chart of the day…. or century?
Housing View – January 11, 2019
Factors in Unemployment Dynamics
Transport Infrastructure, City Productivity Growth and Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from China
Regional differences in the Okun’s Relationship: New Evidence for Spain (1980-2015)
2019 AEA's papers on Inequality
2019 AEA's papers on Energy and Climate Change
Housing View – January 3, 2019 [2019 AEA Annual Meeting Special Edition]
Countries are advancing efforts to stop criminals from laundering their trillions
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2018 (424)
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December (37)
Housing Market in Bolivia
Top Ten Posts of 2018
Top charts of 2018
Transmission of U.S. Monetary Policy to Commodity Exporters and Importers
Paper Tigers
Services sector export in Europe
Wired for Work: Exploring the Nexus of Technology & Jobs
GDP predictions are reliable only in the short term
Housing View – December 21, 2018
Housing Market in Cambodia
Housing Market in Kosovo
Is Carbon Capture and Storage on the Verge?
GDP predictions are reliable only in the short term
Housing View – December 14, 2018
The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last?
China’s High Savings: Drivers, Prospects, and Policies
First-in, first-out: Driving the UK's per capita carbon dioxide emissions below 1860 levels
Beyond Okun's Law: Output Growth and Labor Market Flows
100 Million and Counting: A Portrait of Economic Insecurity in the United States
Universal Basic Income: Debate and Impact Assessment
Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices
Drivers of commodity price booms and busts in the long run
Optimal Control of a Global Model of Climate Change with Adaptation and Mitigation
Overfitting in Judgment-based Economic Forecasts: The Case of IMF Growth Projections
You are needed but not your skills: Challenges to manufacturing workers in the wake of globalisation
Crowdsourcing Economic Forecasts
Housing View – December 7, 2018
The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years
Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
From Harvard to the IMF
A Worldly Philosopher (or Two) at 100
The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity
A Planet at Risk Requires Multilateral Action
Are Housing Price Cycles Asymmetric? Evidence from the US States and Metropolitan Areas
Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Per capita income, consumption patterns, and carbon dioxide emissions
Cyprus: Housing Market
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November (43)
House Price Synchronicity, Banking Integration, and Global Financial Conditions
Finding Success
Housing View – November 30, 2018
Global uncertainty is rising, and that is a bad omen for growth
A Look Back At the Housing Stories of 2018
Understanding Behaviour of Home Buyers Across Countries
Grim Stock Signals Piling Up as Wall Street Mulls Recession Odds
A New Canadian Macroeconomic Database
How does monetary policy affect income and wealth inequality?
Personal Income Tax Progressivity: Trends and Implications
Is Inflation Domestic or Global? Evidence from Emerging Markets
Populism and Civil Society
Solow on Friedman's 1968 Presidential Address and the Medium Run
Distance and Decline: The Case of Petersburg, Virginia
Housing View – November 23, 2018
Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions
Developments in Spain's Housing Market: Already a Cause of Concern?
The Evolution of Zipf’s Law for U.S. Cities
Belize: Climate Change Policy Assessment
Monetary policy and climate change
The Contribution of Foreign Migration to Local Labor Market Adjustment
After the credit squeeze: how labour market flexibility can strengthen firm growth and employment
Text-mining IMF country reports
Superstar Firms and Cities
Housing View – November 16, 2018
Macroprudential Policies and House Prices in Europe: An Overview of Recent Experiences
House Prices in Iceland
House Prices in United Kingdom
Simple Rules for Climate Policy and Integrated Assessment
Inequality and Social Policies
Formality and Equality - Labor Market Challenges in Mexico
The Price and Welfare Effects of The Value-Added Tax: Evidence from Mexico
T. N. Srinivasan: An economist for all seasons
Chile: Housing Market Developments
Housing View – November 9, 2018
The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the childhood roots of social mobility
Dynamic chart: World’s ten largest economies, 1961 to 2017
Balancing Financial Stability and Housing Affordability: The Case of Canada
An Economist’s Guide to Climate Change Science
Fall 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available On-line
Deindustrialization and Employment in Morocco
Workers of the World, Revise!
Housing View – November 2, 2018
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October (33)
Deregulating Job Protection: Surprising IMF/OECD Messages
Becker Friedman Expectations Conference
Remembering Albert Hirschman's Tunnel Effect
Older Americans would work longer if jobs were flexible
Expansions Don't Die of Old Age
Timothy Taylor on Rent Control Returns
Housing View – October 26, 2018
Global Alcohol Markets
Do Remittances Help Growth? A Lebanon Story
When the Market Drives you Crazy: Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
More evidence that it’s really hard to ‘beat the market’
Housing View – October 19, 2018
Highlights of the Economic Outlook for the Euro Area
Assessing Housing Risk
Common factors of commodity prices
The economics of artificial intelligence: Implications for the future of work
The secular decline in US employment over the past two decades
Housing and Macroeconomics
Are published oil price forecasts efficient?
Housing View – October 12, 2018
Inequality in and across Cities
Why Has the Stock Market Risen So Much Since the US Presidential Election?
Georgia: Residential Property Price Index
Gender, Technology, and the Future of Work
Economic Gains from Gender Inclusion: New Mechanisms, New Evidence
Fun Facts about the Nobel Prize
Finance and pollution
Housing View – October 5, 2018
Why economy watchers obsess over the U.S. monthly jobs report
Measuring unfair inequality
Sectoral Booms and Misallocation of Managerial Talent: Evidence from the Chinese Real Estate Boom
House Price Synchronization and Financial Openness: A Dynamic Factor Model Approach
House Prices in Philippines
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September (26)
Francesco Saraceno on the End of the (Macro) Consensus
Technology and the Future of Work
Housing View – September 28, 2018
What is the yield curve forecasting?
Underemployment in the US and Europe
Growth and well-being: policy should not be based on GDP alone
Housing View – September 21, 2018
House Prices and Labor Mobility in Norway: A Regional Perspective
Affordable Housing: Views from Albert Saiz
Urban Revitalization: The View from the Trenches
RIP Deena Khatkhate, far-sighted IMF and RBI economist
Systemic Banking Crises Revisited
Housing View – September 14, 2018
Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks in the MENAP and CCA Regions
Housing Market Developments in Austria
House Prices in Portugal
Carbon Taxation for International Maritime Fuels: Assessing the Options
New Evidence that Unions Raise Wages for Less-Skilled Workers
A Shorter Work Week?
Understanding the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Housing View – September 7, 2018
Housing Market in Latvia
RIP Herman Stekler, A Forecasting Giant
The Measurement and Macro-Relevance of Corruption
How can central banks deal with climate change risks?
Mitigation Policies for the Paris Agreement: An Assessment for G20 Countries
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August (22)
Housing View – August 31, 2018
What Drives OPEC’s Quota Decisions?
Does Globalization Lower Tax Rates?
Counting the Oil Money and the Elderly: Norway's Public Sector Balance Sheet
The Economic Impact of Policies to Boost the Employment of Saudi Nationals
Housing View – August 24, 2018
Credit Supply and Housing Speculation
Victories Against Air Pollution
Forecasting Failures and the Need for Automatic Stabilizers
Employment Protection Deregulation and Labor Shares in Advanced Economies
Housing View – August 17, 2018
Inequality in the Middle East
The Global Liveability Index 2018
Per Capita Income, Consumption Patters, and CO2 emission
Housing View – August 10, 2018
Housing Market in Hungary
The Impact of Higher Temperatures on Economic Growth
Twin Deficits in Developing Economies
Predicting Fiscal Crises
Housing View – August 3, 2018
What Are Economists Getting Wrong Today?
International Corporate Tax Avoidance: A Review of the Channels, Magnitudes, and Blind Spots
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July (40)
Happy 106th birthday on July 31, Milton Friedman!
Housing Price, Credit, and Output Cycles: How Domestic and External Shocks Impact Lithuania’s Credit
Housing Market in Singapore
Twin Deficits in Developing Economies
Difficulties of Making Predictions: Global Power Politics Edition
Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth
Housing Market in China
Housing View – July 27, 2018
Housing Market in Slovak Republic
House Prices in Peru
Fundamental Drivers of House Prices in Advanced Economies
Housing in Romania
Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county
EIU global forecast - Growth will slow in 2019
Is the Cycle the Trend? Evidence from the Views of International Forecasters
The Globalization of Farmland
Housing View – July 20, 2018
Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Global and US
A carbon tax would be less regressive than energy efficiency standards
How To Improve Housing Affordability in Canada's Dynamic Regions?
Balancing Financial Stability and Housing Affordability: The Case of Canada
WEO July 2018: Less Even Expansion, Rising Trade Tensions
The Surge in Second Home Investments: Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Football’s minnows demonstrate how poor countries can catch up
House Prices in Vietnam
Macroprudential Policy: Implementation, Effects, and Lessons
Housing View – July 13, 2018
Financial globalisation and the welfare state
Climate Change and NYU Volatility Institute
Bank Competition, Risk Taking, and their Consequences: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage and Labor Markets
Housing View – July 6, 2018
House Prices in Mongolia
Optimal inflation and the identification of the Phillips curve
Germany's Housing Market: Preventing Financial Excesses
New Zealand: Managing Housing Market Imbalances
Housing in the United States
Housing Affordability in New Zealand and Policy Response
Worries about the yield curve
Revamping inflation targeting in New Zealand 30 years after its inception
Can the Income-Expenditure Discrepancy Improve Forecasts?
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June (51)
Housing: Is This Time Different?
The Irish Commercial Real Estate Market: Synchronization and the Role of External Factors
Housing Market in Czech Republic
Housing View – June 29, 2018
Fiscal Policy and the Shifting Goalposts
Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from Eurozone Regions
Dani Rodrik's preface to Santiago Levy's Book
Assessing Fiscal Space: An Update and Stocktaking
World Economic Outlook Forecast Tracker
House Prices in Lithuania
How Did Fiscal Rules Hold Up in the Commodity Price Crash?
Drivers of Labor Force Participation in Advanced Economies
Six unconventional introductions to economics
Yahoo! Launches Recession Prep Guide
The Macroeconomic and Distributional Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries
Christopher Pissarides: “I knew the route to happiness was a good job”
The Effects of Weather Shocks on Economic Activity: What are the Channels of Impact?
Housing View – June 22, 2018
Housing Market in Denmark
Differences in consumption baskets across households and the distributional consequences of monetary policy
Alongside rising top incomes, the level of living of America’s poorest has fallen
Coping with Natural Disaster Risks in Sri Lanka
Female Labor Force Participation: A New Engine of Growth for Sri Lanka?
Housing Market in Sri Lanka
Structural Transformation in Sri Lanka
Thaler on the Evolution of Behavioral Economics
Are House Prices and Homeownership Moving in Tandem?
Summer Reading: Recommendations by Experts on Housing Markets
5 Things You Need to Know About the IMF and Climate Change
House Prices in Switzerland
What makes a country good at football?
Optimal Monetary Policy For the Masses: the James Bullard and Larry Summers View
Housing View – June 15, 2018
Bangladesh Reaches Middle Income Status
Labor Market Implications of the Exposure to Routinization
IMF on Operationalizing Gender Issues
IMF on Operationalizing Inequality Issues
Impact of Emigration
House Prices in Qatar
Housing View – June 8, 2018
Snapshots of the Salubrious US Labor Market
Housing Market in Romania
The U.S. Personal Saving Rate
Financial Stability and Inequality: A Challenge for Macroprudential Regulation
Inequality in China – Trends, Drivers and Policy Remedies
House Prices in Thailand
Labor Market Duality in Korea
Why A Recession In 2019 Is Possible When Unemployment Is At 50-Year Lows
Growth or Inclusion? With the right policies, countries can pursue both objectives
Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas
Housing View – June 1, 2018
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May (53)
Finance, the state and innovation
House Prices in Qatar
On the Macroeconomic Consequences of Over-Optimism
Forecasting Forum – May 2018
House Prices in Colombia
Exchange rate forecasting on a napkin
Options for Carbon Mitigation and Transportation Policy in the Netherlands
Fundamental Drivers of House Prices in the Netherlands? A Cross-Country Analysis
Central bank policies and income and wealth inequality
Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing
The ‘suprasecular’ stagnation
Wage Moderation in the Netherlands
The Infrastructure & Real Estate Nexus: Three Case Studies
A Look at Housing Affordability: From a Design Perspective
Housing View – May 25, 2018
Housing Market in Estonia
Do IMF fiscal forecasts add value?
The FOMC versus the Staff, Revisited: When do Policymakers Add Value?
Yes, we should fear the robot revolution
Chart of the Week: Greenery and Prosperity
Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas
Uber and the labor market
Housing View – May 18, 2018
Biggest fear for world growth is fear itself as markets fret
IEO Releases an Update to its 2007 evaluation of Structural Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs
Poverty and inequality in Latin America
Fiscal Consolidation and Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
The macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Strengthening natural disaster resilience a savings fund proposal
An overview of the Bahamian labor market
IMF Global Debt Database
Housing View – May 11, 2018
Gender Equality: Which Policies Have the Biggest Bang for the Buck?
Remittances and labor market outcomes in LICs, MICs and Fragile States
What Drives Labor and Product market Reforms in Advanced Countries?
Lawrence R. Klein and the making of large-scale macro-econometric modeling, 1938-1955
Macroeconomic Forecasting in Germany has changed after the Great Recession?
GDP Growth Rate Projection in Asia Pacific
Low Inflation in Asia
21st-century Indian economists
20th-century Indian economists
Is inflation dead?
Spring 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives is Online
The IMF’s Fight Against Corruption
Housing View – May 4, 2018
Learning from Hurricane Sandy? Rising Seas and Housing Values in New York
Retail Apocalypse Postponed Not Cancelled
Housing Market in Israel
How much does infrastructure boost an economy?
El-Erian on What’s Wrong with Economics
Revisiting the 1990s Debate on Globalisation
Inequality in US Life Expectancy
Inequality and Poverty in Israel
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April (30)
Forecasting Forum – April 2018
"Back to Basics" videos
Rethinking the macroeconomics of resource-rich countries: A new eBook
What Information Does the Yield Curve Yield?
Fiscal Consolidation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Housing View – April 27, 2018
Growth Acceleration in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Okun’s Law in Brazil and Three of Its Metropolitan Areas
Understanding Singapore’s Housing Market
Housing in Africa: A Crisis or An Opportunity?
Housing, Urban Development, and the Macroeconomy
Building a Better IMF: Report on IEO work, Spring 2018
Housing View – April 20, 2018
New Book: Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality
Stabilizing China’s Housing Market
World Economic Outlook, April 2018 Cyclical Upswing, Structural Change
Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama
Do Wide-Reaching Reform Programmes Foster Growth?
Housing View – April 13, 2018
Housing as a Financial Asset
Global Investors, House Price Dispersion, and Synchronicity
For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings
Financial Times: IMF Shows Poor Track Record at Forecasting Recessions
Work-Welfare Trade-offs and Structural Unemployment in Luxembourg
Impact of Monetary Policy on Luxembourg
Housing View – April 6, 2018
House Prices in Mongolia
Housing Market in Luxembourg: Assessment and Policy Recommendations
What Lies beneath? A Sub-National Look at Okun’s Law in the United States
The IMF and Fragile States
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March (37)
Dani Rodrik on Globalization and its Discontents
Forecasting Forum – March 2018
Fostering Incentives for Women to Work to Promote Long-Term Growth in Iran
Expanding Iran’s Non-Oil Exports
Housing View – March 30, 2018
Monetary Policy, Labour Income, and Inequality
The Gains from (Services) Trade
Housing View – March 23, 2018
How much people make
Paul Ehrlich: "Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades"
A housing recovery without homeowners
House Prices in Nambia
Creative Destruction, the Uber Effect, and the Slow Death of the NYC Taxi Cartel
Housing View – March 16, 2018
The Distributional Effects of Government Spending Shocks in Developing Economies
The Long-Run Decoupling of Emissions and Output: Evidence from the Largest Emitters
The Distribution of Gains from Globalization
A Look at Housing in Latin America
Rethinking and Expanding Research on Housing Policy with a Global Perspective
Okun’s Law in China: Understanding China’s Labor Market Resilience
Can Central Bankers Become Superforecasters?
The time series figures for the most basic of business cycle macro analyses: What is to be explained and accounted for
Economic Forecasts with the Yield Curve
Forecasts in Times of Crises
Significant Shifts in Malaysian Labor Market
Housing Market in Belgium
Housing Market in Malaysia
Housing View – March 9, 2018
Gender Inequality in Nigeria: Macroeconomic Costs and Future Opportunities
Distributional Impact of Fiscal Reforms in Nigeria
IMF Paper Looks at How Inflation Anchoring Affects Growth
How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions?
Economic Fluctuations in Sub-Saharan Africa
House Prices in Namibia
Welfare Gains from Market Insurance: The Case of Mexican Oil Price Risk
Inflation Anchoring and Growth: Evidence from Sectoral Data
Housing View – March 2, 2018
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February (26)
Warren Buffett Summarizes Investment Lessons from Winning His 10-year Bet that a Passive S&P 500 Index Fund Would Out-Perform Actively Managed Hedge Funds
The UK's Housing Problem...
G-20 Thematic Workshop on Residential and Commercial Property Price Indices
Housing View – February 23, 2018
Mortgage Finance and Culture
Housing Market Imbalances in Australia: Development, Prospects, and Policies
The New Minimum Wage Policy in Korea
Youth (Un)Employment in Korea—Recent Trends Drivers
Labor Market Duality in Korea
Housing View – February 16, 2018
UK's Housing Market
House Prices in Korea
Korea: Macroprudential Policy and High Household Debt
Labor Mobility and the Role of Housing Prices in UK
Regional Disparities and Inclusive Growth in UK
The Harsh Realism of Adam Smith
Housing View – February 9, 2018
What Is Supply and Demand?
What Is GDP?
What is Inflation? Back to Basics
Malta: Address Housing Market Pressures
House Prices in Indonesia
Country Experiences With Macroprudential Policies
Housing View – February 2, 2018
Adapting to Climate Change: Pricing Right, Taxing Smart, and Acting Now
How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions? A Groundhog Day Update
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January (26)
Scaling-up the Inclusive Growth Agenda in the Arab Region
Housing Market in Malta
Foreign Direct Investment and Women Empowerment: New Evidence on Developing Countries
Housing View – January 26, 2018
A Narrative Database of Major Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Economies
FocusEconomics Announces 2017 Analyst Forecast Awards Winners
Household Credit, Global Financial Cycle, and Macroprudential Policies: Credit Register Evidence from an Emerging Country
The Effectiveness of Housing Market Policies in Hong Kong
Inequality and Poverty across Generations in the European Union
Housing, Household Debt and Policy
2018 AEA Annual Meeting’s Papers on Climate Change and Energy
Housing View – January 19, 2018
Tonga’s Housing Sector
Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
2018 AEA Annual Meeting's Papers on Inequality
Housing View – January 12, 2018
10 top thinkers on Development, summarized in 700 words by Stefan Dercon
Workshop: Trade Policy, Inclusion and the Rise of the Service Economy
For Vietnam, Greener Growth Can Reduce Climate Change Risks
Growth-Equity Trade-offs in Structural Reforms
Housing View – January 5, 2018 [2018 AEA Annual Meeting Special Edition]
Okun’s Law in Russia
GDP growth forecasts and information flows: Is there evidence of overreactions?
CO2 Emissions in UK
David Hendry on Why Forecasting Fails
The Rate of Return on Everything: 1870–2015
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2017 (200)
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December (24)
Housing View – December 29, 2017
The Top 17 of ‘17
Housing in Bolivia
13 economists on the research that shaped our world in 2017
The Economics Debate, again and again
Housing View – December 22, 2017
House Prices in Cyprus
Housing Market in Finland
The Impact of Fiscal Consolidations on Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Housing View – December 15, 2017
How can Natural Gas from TAP increase Productivity?
Medium Term Growth in Albania
Okun's Law in Finland: Declining Labor Market Sensitivity
Finland’s Labor Market
2018 Housing Forecasts
Housing View – December 8, 2017
Welfare vs. Income Convergence and Environmental Externalities
Macroprudential Policy in China's Real Estate Market
Housing in the Maldives
Djibouti’s Quest for Inclusive Growth
2017 Year in Review: A Look Back At the Housing Stories
The State of Housing Market in Africa
Growth for the Bottom 40 Percent: The World Bank Group’s Support for Shared Prosperity
Housing View – December 1, 2017
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November (15)
New eBook: Ordoliberalism: A German oddity?
Housing View – November 24, 2017
House Prices in Philippines
Korea’s Paradigm Shift for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth: A Proposal
Mexico's Structural Reform Agenda": Early Signs of Success"
Housing in Sweden
Growth and Jobs in Developing Economies: Trends and Cycles
Housing View – November 17, 2017
Inequality in Financial Inclusion, Gender Gaps, and Income Inequality
Hollowing Out: The Channels of Income Polarization in the United States
Dani Rodrik Takes A Crack at Neoliberalism
Housing View – November 10, 2017
Productivity and Pay: Is the Link Broken?
Roads or Schools: A Critical Tradeoff
Housing View – November 3, 2017
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October (17)
Inequality in Brazil: A Regional Perspective
Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: An Application to Small Developing States
Debt Sustainability Analyses for Low-Income Countries: An Assessment of Projection Performance
Housing View – October 27, 2017
Property Tax in Africa
The Macroeconomic (and Distributional) Effects of Public Investment in Developing Economies
Housing Market in Cambodia
Housing View – October 20, 2017
Aggregate Uncertainty Shocks and Sectoral Productivity
Housing View – October 13, 2017
Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor on Tackling Inequality
House Prices in Spain
A Closer Look at Employment Creation in Spain since the Crisis
Housing View – October 6, 2017
IMF Fiscal Advice to Saudi Arabia
Who’s the fairest of them all? Ranking countries combining incomes and inequality
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September (20)
Housing View – September 29, 2017
The Unequal Burden of Rising Temperatures: How Can Low-Income Countries Cope?
Better thy Neighbor? Cross-border Effects of Fiscal Actions
Housing View – September 22, 2017
Corruption in Latin America: Taking Stock
Growth That Reaches Everyone: Facts, Factors, Tools
House Prices in Portugal
The Youth in Portugal through the Crisis
The Public Sector Wage Bill in Portugal
Global House Prices: An Update
Housing View – September 15, 2017
Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows: The Role of Macroprudential Policies in Cambodia
Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows: The Role of Macroprudential Policies in Sweden
Does Okun’s Law Hold in Swaziland?
Okun’s Law in Black and White
Housing View – September 8, 2017
Stan Fischer: A Class Act
Oil Prices and Inflation Dynamics: Evidence from Advanced and Developing Economies
Why economic forecasting has always been a flawed science
Housing View – September 1, 2017
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August (13)
Are Emissions Decoupling from Growth?
Perspective and Trends in the US Housing Market
Housing View – August 25, 2017
Housing Finance and Real Estate Markets in Colombia
Housing View – August 18, 2017
Inequality in China – Trends, Drivers, and Policy Remedies
Assessing China's Residential Real Estate Market
Housing View – August 11, 2017
Stabilizing the System of Mortgage Finance in the United States
Housing View – August 4, 2017
Bridging the Gap: Forecasting Interest Rates with Macro Trends
Japan’s Lifetime Employment and Gender Inequality
Japan: Risks Emerging from Real Estate?
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July (29)
Housing Market in Singapore
Housing in the U.S.
A Profile of Assaf Razin
Housing View – July 28, 2017
Why economists cannot forecast recessions
Housing in the Euro Area
Ten Ways to Expand U.S. Growth
Housing: From Immobile and Illiquid to Mobile and Liquid
Meeting EU Climate Pledges: Assessing Some Potential Policy Refinements
Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income, and Long-term Growth
What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data
Forecasting: How to Map the Future Global Business
Housing View – July 21, 2017
Women Are Key for Future Growth: Evidence from Canada
Housing in St. Kitts and Nevis
Housing in United Arab Emirates
Housing in Poland
Housing View – July 17, 2017
Inequality in Brazil: A Micro-data Analysis
Staying the Role Model: Advancing Gender Equality in Rwanda
How Advanced Economies Tackle Housing Market Imbalances: Lessons for Canada
Housing Market in Germany
Housing View – July 10, 2017
Fostering Inclusive Growth
Environment and Climate Change in Vietnam
House Prices in Lithuania
Are House Prices Overvalued in Norway?
International Jobs Report 2017:H1
Housing View – July 5, 2017
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June (18)
Cross-Country Spillovers of Fiscal Consolidations in the Euro Area
House Prices in Peru
Housing View – June 27, 2017
House Prices in Ireland
House Prices in Czech Republic
Income Inequality and the Welfare System in Ireland
Construction Sector: The World’s Next Productivity Story?
Global Housing Watch - Q2 2017
Forecasting Long-Term Interest Rates: A Long History of Errors
House Prices in Iceland
Denmark's Housing Market
Rodrik on Financial Globalization and Inequality
Dani Rodrik on the populist backlash against globalization
Understanding Today’s Stagnation
House Prices in Thailand
Colombia's Housing Market
Is the United States Becoming Less of an Optimal Currency Area?
Colombia's Peace Agreement Can Give Fillip to Inclusive Growth
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May (12)
Inclusive Growth Framework
The Quest for Inclusive Cities
Trading with China : Productivity Gains, Job Losses
Housing Construction: The Current State, Policy Implication, and the Future
Asia Continues to Be the World Growth Leader
Every Woman Counts: Gender Budgeting in G7 Countries
Belt and Road Initiative: Strengthening Financial Connectivity
Housing Market in Luxembourg
The Informal Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Restarting Sub-Saharan Africa’s Growth Engine
Macroprudential Policy in New Zealand
House Prices in Malaysia
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April (8)
Understanding Housing Supply: Views from Joseph Gyourko
Going for (Inclusive) Growth
International Experience of Limits on LTV, DSTI, and LTI Ratios
A Closer Look at Global Housing
Housing Market in San Marino
Workshop on Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies
Corruption and Growth in Ukraine
Housing Market in Netherlands
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March (18)
The Power of Two: Inclusive Growth and the IMF
Das House-Kapital: A Long Term Housing & Macro Model
Build It and They Will Come: A New Data Set on Services Exports
Housing Market in Israel
Steve Malpezzi on Housing Markets
House Prices in Slovak Republic
Inflation-Forecast Targeting for India
Jobs and Happiness
Does Money Buy Happiness? Evidence from China
House Prices in Belgium
OPEC’s Rebalancing Act
IMF on the Decline in Labor Share of Income
Trade Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Trade, Growth and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Global House Prices: An Update
Creative Financing for Affordable Housing
Shaping the Future of Construction: Insights to redesign the industry
Morocco: Reducing Gender Inequality Can Boost Growth
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February (13)
Housing Market in Africa: What We Do and Don’t Know
Housing Market in Malta
House Prices in Macao (SAR)
House Prices in Australia
Okun's Law: Fit at 50?--Revised Paper and Dataset
House Prices in Indonesia
Turkey's Tourism Sector: Recent Developments and the Impact on the Broader Economy
House Prices in Morocco
Housing Market in Ireland
Housing Market in Turkey
House Prices in Austria
Groundhog Day Tradition: 2017 Stekler Award for Courage in Forecasting
Increased Social Inclusion in Uruguay– the Role of Government Policies
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January (13)
The Fruits of Growth: Economic Reforms and Lower Inequality
Okun's Law and Phillips Curves in Asia
Macroeconomic Structural Policies and Income Inequality in Low-Income Developing Countries
House Prices in Spain
Where are Oil Prices Headed?
House price measurement: Recent progress
Toward Inclusive Globalization
IMF WEO Forecasts: A Shifting Economic Landscape
An Economy for the 99%
IMF Executive Board Discusses Macroeconomic Prospects and Challenges in LIDCs
Decoupling of Emissions and GDP: Now you see it, now you don’t
Inclusive Growth and the IMF
Three Economists Walk into a Bar: Ouch! (The Perils of Forecasting)
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2016 (131)
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December (18)
The Top 16 of ‘16
Financial Information and Macroeconomic Forecasts
Bolivia's Gains from the 2000s Gas Boom
Monetary Policy and Inequality
The Fed and the U.S. Economy: Hitting the Bull's Eye?
(Not) On The Road Again: Americans Are Moving Less
Housing Market in Switzerland
GDP Demystified
Put Forecasting in Its Final Resting Place
A Tale of Transition : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in Urban China
When China Sneezes Does ASEAN Catch a Cold?
Forecast Errors and Uncertainty Shocks
The IMF is Not Asking Greece for More Austerity
Housing Market in Chile
Housing Market in Namibia
Austerity and Inequality: New Evidence from the IMF
European Unemployment: Deja Vu All Over Again?
Will Interest Rates Stay Low?
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November (11)
Housing Policies: What Works?
Global House Prices: Time to Worry Again?
Spillovers from the Oil Sector to the Housing Market Cycle
Housing in Developed and Developing Countries
Mexico’s welfare gains from hedging oil-price risk
House Prices in Mexico
Global Housing Watch Quarterly Update
International Jobs Report: Global Unemployment Inching Up Again
Housing Market in Sweden
Can Property Taxes Reduce House Price Volatility? Evidence from U.S. Regions
Was Krugman Right? Unemployment during the Great Recession
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October (14)
A “New Normal” for the Oil Market
Housing in the U.S.: Affordable or Not?
Employment, Efficiency, Equity: Evolution in IMF Thought
Technology, Efficiency and Equity
Top 100 in global finance: two from the IMF make the cut
Gone with the Wind: Estimating Hurricane Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean
Goodbye Gentle Jim: Links to Jim Gordon’s Contributions
Greenspan and I: My Memories of the Maestro
Does Growth Create Jobs? Evidence for Advanced and Developing Economies
Verdict on Greenspan: Mallaby’s New Biography Delivers
Rethinking the Oil Market
Jobs and Growth: Outlook and Policy Response
Financial Globalization, Inequality and the Top 1%
IMF Research on Inequality: A Primer
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September (6)
Macroprudential Policy in Ireland
Housing Market in Portugal
Global Housing Affordability: What Do We Know?
Will Trump Win?
Developments in Global Real Estate
Immigrants and the Housing Market
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August (17)
House prices in Korea
Growing Apart, Losing Trust? The Impact of Inequality on Social Capital
Global and Local Housing Markets: The View From Experts at the Dallas FED
Is Uncertainty Hurting Productivity?
Workshop on Global Labor Markets
Housing Market in China
How Reliable is China’s Output Data?
Climate Mitigation Policy in China: The Many Attractions of Carbon or Coal Taxes
How Accurate Are Private Sector Fiscal Forecasts? Evidence from the Great Recession
Demographic Dividends, Gender Equality, and Economic Growth: The Case of Cabo Verde
Can Reform Waves Turn the Tide? Evidence on the Effects of Structural Reforms
Global Housing Watch Update
Special Issue on Global Labor Markets: Call for Papers
Japan: Minimum wages as a policy tool
Labor Mobility in the United States
Okun’s Law: Fit at 55?
Real Estate Market in Ireland
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July (16)
Housing Market in United Arab Emirates
Issi Romem on BuildZoom and the U.S. Housing Market
Jobs and Growth: The Evolution in IMF Research
Karl E. Case: Remembering A Top Housing Market Guru
Evictions and Housing: Why Should We Care?
House Prices in Peru
Housing Market in Poland
House Prices in Czech Republic
What Keeps France's Unemployment High?
House Prices in Norway
Female Labor Force Participation in Poland
OPEC’s Strategic Actions and the 2014 Oil Price Crash
The Role of Productivity Growth in Reducing Regional Economic Disparities in Poland
Norway: The Transition from Oil and Gas
Housing Market in Germany
The Danish Housing Market: An Update
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June (3)
State of Global House Prices: An Update from the Experts
UK's Housing Market
Canada's Housing Market
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May (9)
Housing: Microdata, macro problems
House Prices in Colombia
House Prices in Lithuania
House Prices in Luxembourg
House Prices in Slovenia
UK's Housing Market
Housing Sector Developments in Australia and New Zealand: Diverging Tales
Housing Market in Malaysia
House Prices in Hungary
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April (3)
Understanding the Commercial Real Estate Investment Ecosystem
Openness, Austerity and Inequality
Let's Get Fiscal
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March (11)
Marja C Hoek-Smit on Housing Markets in Developing and Emerging Countries
Oil Prices and the Global Economy: It’s Complicated
Breaking the Link between Housing Cycles, Banking Crises, and Recession
Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: Canada’s House-Price Dilemma
Financial Stability and Interest-Rate Policy
Make in India: Which exports can drive the next wave of growth?
House Prices in Indonesia
House Prices in Montenegro
House Prices in Belgium
Sharing the Growth Dividend: Analysis of Inequality in Asia
Housing Market in Fiji
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February (11)
Housing Market in the United Kingdom
Inequality and opening up to foreign capital and inequality: some new results
Experts Weigh in on the State of the Global Housing Market
Financial Development, Inequality and Poverty: Some International Evidence
The IMF’s Interest in Inclusive Growth: Promising or PR?
International Jobs Report
House Prices in Austria
House Prices in the Netherlands
House Prices in New Zealand
House Prices in Morocco
A Groundhog Day Tradition: The Stekler Award for Courage in Forecasting
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January (12)
The Unemployment Picture in 2016
Experts Confer on State of China’s Housing Market
Global Housing Watch Quarterly Update
“Growth is devilishly hard to predict”
Four Questions About Recent Developments in UK's Housing Market
Housing and Systemic Risk
Housing Market in Malta
Hong Kong Property Prices: Ripe for a Correction?
Housing Market in Ireland
Housing Developments and Macroprudential Measures in Slovak Republic
Mortgage market in Poland
Effectiveness and Channels of Macroprudential Policies: Lessons from the Euro Area
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December (5)
The Top Ten Blogs of 2015
Thomas Sargent Recounts History of U.S. Debt Limits
Understanding China's Housing Market
Housing Market in Kuwait
Sweden's Housing Market
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November (10)
Labor Migration across U.S. States: An Update
Fund Fires Employment Guru?
Canada's Housing Market: Which Way Now?
Sovereign wealth funds in the new era of oil
IMF's Thanksgiving message: ensure benefits of foreign capital are shared broadly
Forecasting: Who keeps the score?
House Prices in Mexico
House Prices in Finland
Effects of Wage Moderation in the Euro Area
International Jobs Report
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October (9)
Housing Markets: Balancing Risks and Rewards
Global House Prices: Gloom, Boom or Doom?
On U.S. Labor Market Slack: Updated Estimates of the Impact of Uncertainty on Unemployment
Is the Phillips Curve alive? And should we care?
Union power and inequality
Spillovers of Unconventional Monetary Policy
Dialogue with Angus Deaton
The Frenchman Who Reshaped the IMF
Are Australia's House Prices Overvalued?
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September (12)
US Housing Market: An Update
India's Housing Market: What's happened? What's next?
The Stekler Award for Courage in Forecasting (Recessions Inaccurately)
Developments in Israel's Housing Market
Housing Market in Saudi Arabia
Israel’s Labor Market: High Inequality, Low Productivity
Rising House Prices and Household Debt: A Twin Boom in Norway?
Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities
Macroprudential Policies in the Philippines
What Lies Behind Norway’s Low Unemployment Rate?
Norway: Peak in Oil Fortunes?
Labor Day Special: How Countries Rank on Whether Growth Creates Jobs
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August (11)
Behind the commodities bust
Chile's Housing Market
Spain's Housing Market
China: How Big Is the Risk of a Real Estate Slowdown and Does It Matter?
Johan Norberg: India Awakes
Recent Labor Market Reforms in Spain: A Preliminary Assessment
House Prices in Jordan
House Prices in United Arab Emirates
Price Expectations and the US Housing Boom
House Prices in Europe
House Prices in Singapore
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July (12)
Should Emerging Markets Fear A Fed Lift-Off?
On the Globalization of Real Estate and its Consequences
US Housing Market: An Update
House Prices in Czech Republic
House Prices in Japan
LTV and DTI Limits—Going Granular
Housing Market in Lebanon
IMF Staff Paper: Unionization, Minimum Wages and Inequality
House Prices in Germany
Housing Market in Poland
Housing Market in France
US Housing Market
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June (7)
Latest Work on Macroprudential Policy
Housing Supply in Canada
House Prices in Ireland
Fiscal Forecasting Follies: Private Sector vs. Government
Housing Finance and Real-Estate Booms: A Cross-Country Perspective
House Prices in Colombia
House Prices in Luxembourg
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May (8)
House Prices in Peru
House Prices in Switzerland
China's Housing Market
Europe's Housing Market
House Prices in Korea
House Prices in Brazil
House Prices in Thailand
House Prices in Jordan
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April (4)
Current State of House Prices Across the Globe
Re-thinking Housing Markets
House Prices in the United States
House Prices in Qatar
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March (9)
Global Housing Watch Newsletter
Inequality in China
House prices in Ireland
Housing Wealth and Inequality
House Prices in Indonesia
House Prices in Iceland
House Prices in Belgium
House Prices in Malaysia
House Prices in Malta
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February (16)
Lower unionization associated with increased inequality: IMF F&D
Jobs & Inequality: Special Feature in Finance & Development
Global Housing Watch Newsletter
Uncertainty and U.S. Unemployment
New Results on Capital Account Liberalization and Inequality
House Prices in Slovenia
Tom Sargent on U.S. and Europe: A Blast from the Past
Oil Prices and Employment: Some Evidence from US States
Is Manufacturing Still a Key to Growth?
International Jobs Report: It's Not Just About US
The Secret of the (Economic) Universe
Labour mobility in the EU: dynamics and policies
Persistent Overoptimism about Economic Growth
On Groundhog Day, Honoring A Forecasting Giant
Global Housing Watch Newsletter
House Prices in Advanced and Emerging Economies
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January (5)
House Prices in Canada
House Prices in Ireland
State of Housing Markets Across the Globe
Global Joblessness Returns To Precrisis Levels In New IMF Employment Gauge
Housing Recoveries: Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands and Spain
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December (6)
House Prices in Georgia
House Prices in Denmark
Macro-Prudential Policies in Kuwait
Macro-Prudential Policies in Turkey
House Prices in Netherlands
IIMB-IMF Conference on Housing Markets, Financial Stability and Growth
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November (1)
Does Growth Lower Unemployment? (Was Krugman Right Yet Again)?
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October (6)
House Prices in Cyprus
House Prices in Singapore
Seven Questions on the Global Housing Markets
Global Housing Watch
Is Unemployment Inevitable?
Global Housing Prices: It’s a Tale of Two Worlds
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September (6)
Moving on: Labor mobility in the United States
What Lies Beneath: A Sub-National Look at Okun’s Law
House Prices in Austria
House Prices in Switzerland
House Prices in Czech Republic
House Prices in Slovak Republic
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August (6)
House Prices in Sweden
House Prices in Norway
Are You Cut Out To Be A Macroeconomist? A Simple Test
House Prices in the Philippines
House Prices in Lebanon
House Prices in China
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July (8)
House Prices in the United Kingdom
House Prices in the United States
House Prices in Chile
House Prices in Germany
House Prices in Iceland
House Prices in Spain
House Prices in United Arab Emirates
House Prices in France
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June (4)
House Prices in Colombia
House Prices in Poland
Era of Benign Neglect of House Price Booms is Over
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October (6)
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September (5)
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August (4)
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July (3)
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June (6)
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May (5)
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January (7)
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November (3)
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October (4)
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September (4)
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August (1)
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July (3)
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June (4)
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May (4)
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April (8)
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March (3)
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February (1)
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December (5)
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October (3)
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September (3)
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