The US college wage premium nearly doubled between 1980 and 2010, rising fastest in dense cities and among young workers.…
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Cross-border payments are essential for global trade, remittances, and financial transactions. For centuries, cross-border payments have been an important part…
Frontier innovation may start at home, but new technologies tend to spread across borders through firm-to-firm networks. Using more than…
When global uncertainty increases, emerging markets are typically the most exposed. Historically, tighter US monetary policy has led to capital…
The lesson from history is that global imbalances often end in financial crises. That risk cannot be dismissed today. The…
For decades, universities were the beating heart of frontier research. Using a new database tracking the employment histories of 42,000…
Since the 1980s, real wages in the US have grown only slowly, even as productivity has continued to rise. This…
Standard theories of electoral competition predict that politicians should converge toward the centre as elections approach. This column challenges this…
Intergenerational social mobility refers to the relationship between the socioeconomic status of parents and the status their children attain as…