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UC Berkeley Economics professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been named 2023 Citation Laureates. This distinction recognizes that both Saez and Zucman are among the world's top economists whose work is considered to be of Nobel-prize class. Read more
Informal transfers are an important form of social insurance. But are they also a tax that dampens the incentive to work? Watch an Econimate video on a new working paper, “The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply” by Eliana Carranza, Aletheia Donald, Florian Grosset, Supreet Kaur, 2023.
"Trade and Foreign Labor”, an episode of EqualiTalks, features a conversation with Berkeley Economics Assistat Proffesor Mathilde Muñoz, who studies how trade liberalization interacts with labor market regulations and affects wage inequality. Listen here
NPR's Planet Money interviews Prof. Emi Nakamura to learn how she uses data to untangle some of the oldest mysteries in macroeconomics, about the invisible hand, the consequences of government spending, and the inner workings of inflation. Read more
Inflation since COVID: Supply versus demand, a new paper by Andrea Cerrato and Giulia Gitti.The slope of the Phillips curve dropped to zero during the pandemic but has tripled since March 2021. Demand factors explain around 1.4 out of 5.6 percentage-point increase in CPI inflation. Read more