Ben Bernanke, former Fed chair and Economic Studies Distinguished Fellow in Residence delivered the Presidential Address at the American Economic Association's annual meetings in San Diego last week, where he discussed the effectiveness of new monetary policy tools.
In a new episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, Economic Studies Vice President Stephanie Aaronson and fellow Louise Sheiner share their views on the state of the U.S. economy and the top economic issues facing the country in 2020.
As the Future of the Middle Class Initiative sets about their research agenda for 2020, they take a look back at their work on the middle class from each year of the last decade, tracing themes of income inequality, upward mobility, and educational opportunities.
How the latest decision in Texas v. U.S. will hurt consumers and the health care industry. Last month, the 5th Circuit held that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate was unconstitutional, but left questions about other parts of the ACA to a lower court, creating an extended period of policy uncertainty. Christen Linke Young explains how this uncertainty could affect the health care market.
A computational modeling laboratory for examining tobacco control policies. Center on Social Dynamics and Policy experts Ross Hammond and Matt Kasman contributed to a newly-published paper on the effectiveness of agent-based modeling for testing retail-based tobacco policies.
