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The NBER Digest
All the News That’s Fit to Speculate Upon:
Journalists' Attention to Volatility’s Causes Shifts
Press reports on contributors to market volatility have long emphasized news about GDP, inflation, and other economic aggregates, but policy is increasingly cited as a cause of big swings, analysis of reports in 11 major U.S. newspapers finds. A summary is featured in the current edition of the free, monthly NBER Digest. Other studies in this month’s Digest gauge the effectiveness of Facebook's efforts to rein in misinformation, analyze the capacity of federal tax credits to induce purchases of electric vehicles, investigate the relationship between automation and the labor share, and gauge the effects of investor expectations on portfolio composition, and measure the health impacts on families that include a doctor.
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An NBER Conference Report
Attempting to Set the Agenda for AI Research
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This newly published NBER conference report, edited by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, seeks to set the agenda for research on AI’s economic impacts. It covers four broad themes: AI as a general purpose technology; the relationships between AI, growth, jobs, and inequality; regulatory responses to changes brought on by AI; and the effects of AI on the way economic research is conducted. It explores the economic influence of machine learning, the branch of computational statistics that has driven much of the recent excitement around AI, as well as the economic impact of robotics and automation and the potential economic consequences of a still-hypothetical artificial general intelligence.
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The NBER Bulletin on Health
Union Army Soldiers Severely Wounded in the Civil War
Didn't Suffer Mortality Effects, but their Daughters Did
The first edition of the free Bulletin on Health features a study of the long-term impacts of civil war injuries on the postwar outcomes of veterans and their children. Researchers found that wounded veterans fared worse economically, but did not die earlier than their unwounded counterparts. The daughters of severely wounded veterans experienced lower socioeconomic status and died at younger ages. Also featured in the spring Bulletin on Health are studies of the effects of air pollution on dementia diagnoses and the effects of Medicare Advantage plans on opioid prescribing.
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New NBER Research
17 June 2019
Fiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises
In OECD countries over the period 1980–2017, countries with lower debt-to-GDP ratios responded to financial distress with much more expansionary fiscal policy and suffered much less severe aftermaths, according to new research by Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer.
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14 June 2019
Explaining the Post-1990 Rise in the U.S. Stock Market
From 1989 through 2017, $23 trillion of real equity wealth was created by the nonfinancial corporate sector, of which 54 percent was attributable to a reallocation of rents to shareholders in a decelerating economy, according to an analysis by Daniel L. Greenwald, Martin Lettau, and Sydney C. Ludvigson.
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13 June 2019
Local Aggregate Effects of Minimum Wage Increases
Following minimum wage increases, both prices and nominal spending rise modestly, Daniel Cooper, María José Luengo-Prado, and Jonathan A. Parker find. Total debt among households with low credit scores declines, auto debt rises, and access to credit increases.
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Tarek A. Hassan of Boston University and the NBER explains that he and his colleagues are applying textual analysis to some 30 million pages of transcripts of conversations between firms and analysts to measure the risk businesses face from political developments such as Brexit and mundane concerns such as the effects of government regulation.
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Trade War Impacts Rattle Markets, Hit Consumers
With tension ratcheting up in U.S.-China trade relations The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and many other national media outlets are full of reports on the trade war between the world’s biggest economies.
The impacts of the conflict have been extensively researched by NBER affiliates in studies such as:
• Trade Blocs and Trade Wars during the Interwar Period
• The Return to Protectionism
• The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare
• The Production Relocation and Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines.
A non-technical summary of trade war impact studies appears in the May edition of the NBER’s free monthly Digest.
• Trade Blocs and Trade Wars during the Interwar Period
• The Return to Protectionism
• The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare
• The Production Relocation and Price Effects of U.S. Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines.
A non-technical summary of trade war impact studies appears in the May edition of the NBER’s free monthly Digest.
The NBER Reporter
Best-Intended Efforts to Foster Innovation Don’t Always
Achieve Desired Effects, and Can Reduce Development
The patent system supposedly incentivizes research investments into new technologies by allowing investors to capture a large share of the returns from successful investments. But research featured in the current issue of the NBER Reporter finds that in some cases scientific research and product development are reduced by private ownership of intellectual property. Also in this edition of the free quarterly Reporter are articles on charitable-giving behaviors, the NBER Education program, financial misconduct, and survey expectations.
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