Lauren Cohen, David Kim and Eric So received a Best Paper Prize from the Eastern Finance Association Meetings. Cohen, with ...

Most US innovation stems from firms that operate R&D facilities in many local markets. IBM and Google are two prominent examples, with R&D activities—measured by patenting—in approximately 70 and 20 ...

Shifting from realization-based to accrual-based taxation of the gains on founders’ equity would dilute the stakes of those who succeed but also provide some insurance to those who fail. To evaluate ...

Nominal interest rates have real effects. Residential mortgages and other real world debt contracts require a sequence of constant nominal payments. Combined with payment-to-income constraints, these ...

Keane, "Amortized Inference for Correlated Discrete Choice Models via Equivariant Neural Networks," NBER Working Paper 35037 (2026), ...

To study this, we extend the DeGroot model by introducing an AI aggregator that trains on population beliefs and feeds synthesized signals back to agents. We define the learning gap as the deviation ...

NBER's Training Program in Aging and Health Research, funded by the National Institute on Aging and NBER, under the direction of Professors Amy Finkelstein and David Cutler, gives outstanding ...

This project advances the knowledge base associated with asset allocation and risk assessment for long-term investors and builds a research community interested in studying these questions. The ...

The NBER Project on the Economics of Digitization provides new insights on the economic impact of the digitization of both commercial and personal activities, including the rise of digital media and ...

It also seeks to develop new data resources to support empirical research in transportation economics. The project supports a ...

Americans. Nowadays, about half of the gap in hours worked has reversed. To evaluate the convergence of working hours, we develop a tractable model of labor supply enriched with multiple sources of ...

There are unique aspects and potential barriers to providing healthcare to people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias (ADRD), since they may be less capable than others of ...