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Former IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld and NatAlliance Securities’ Andy Brenner discuss President Trump’s attack against the Federal Reserve amid trade war worries. View the video via Fox Business
Inequality is worse than economists previously thought, according to Berkeley Economics professor Gabriel Zucman and fellow researchers. Their work shows how much standard measurements are off when tax evasion is taken into account. Read more about their research, featured in the June issue of The American Economic Review. Read more
As part of STEMinism in the Spotlight, a monthly interview series, Amanda Glazer talks with Professor Lisa Goldberg about Lisa's career path and sustained interest in mathematics. Read more
A newly published book by Berkeley Economics professor Jan De Vries, "The Price of Bread: Regulating the Market in the Dutch Republic," explores major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life. Read more.
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ingrid Haegele for becoming a Washington Center for Equitable Growth grantee! Ingrid has been awarded a grant to research potential explanations for gender wage gaps, glass ceilings, and differential labor market returns for women. Her research focuses on inequality in modern labor markets. By combining insights from labor economics with data science tools, she aims to identify policies that can alleviate bottlenecks in women’s career trajectories. Read more
"Generally, we either talk about growth or about inequality, but rarely about the two together," says Professor Gabriel Zucman in an interview with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. "The distributional national accounts we’re constructing are an attempt at bridging the gap between macroeconomics, on the one hand, and inequality studies on the other hand." Read more