Protectionist policies intended to revitalize US chip manufacturing backfired, ultimately weakening the domestic workforce they aimed to rebuild. Instead of fostering talent growth, these measures res
While conducting empirical work, researchers sometimes observe changes in outcomes before adoption of a new treatment program. The conventional diagnosis is that treatment is endogenous. Observing cha
We analyze whether government spending multipliers differ by the sign of the shock. Using aggregate historical U.S. data, we apply Ben Zeev’s (2020) nonlinear diagnostic tests and find evidence of non
A sharp increase in the real interest rates in the U.S. in the 1980s was expected to induce a higher personal saving rate. Actually, between 1981 and 1983 the personal saving rate fell from 7.5 percen
This project contains the replication package for the paper titled " The Economic Impact of Uncertainty about U.S. Regulations of the Energy Sector ." Abstract: This paper examines the eco
