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Call for Papers: Conference on Remote Work to be held at Stanford on 9-11 October 2024, sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
The latest episodes of Economics, Applied, a video podcast series featuring my conversations with leaders and researchers about economic developments and their ramifications:
The latest editions of Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis, an online Hoover Institution workshop that I organize with Stanford political scientist Justin Grimmer:
“The Diffusion of New Technologies,” with Tarek Hassan, Josh Lerner and Nicholas Bloom, 29 April 2024. Paper | Event Page | Video
“Benevolent Billionaires? Evaluating the Influence of Wealthy Owners on Local News” by Michelle Torres, 12 March 2024. Paper | Event Page | Video
Monthly briefing from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes: April 2024 | March 2024 | Full collection here.
Monthly report from the Survey of Business Uncertainty: May 2024 | April 2024 | Full collection here under “Findings & Results”
Hoover Institution Monetary Policy Conference, panel session on “Employment Dynamics, Labor Markets, Phillips Curve, and Inflation,” Stanford, 3 May 2024. Slides
“How and why work-from-home rates differ across countries and people,” with Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Dolls and Zarate, VoxEU, 1 May 2024.
“WFH ‘Here to stay,” Will Boost Small Business Formation,” interview with Kathleen Hays on Central Bank Central, 2 May 2024.
“The Big Shift to Work from Home,” Berkeley Social Science Matrix talk, 26 April 2024. Slides
“WFH, AI, and Labor Markets: Three Predictions,” 25 April 2024.
“Investment and Subjective Uncertainty” with Nick Bloom, Lucia Foster, Scott Ohlmacher and Itay Saporta-Eksten, 19 April 2024. Forthcoming in the International Economic Review. BFI Economic Finding
“Why Does Working from Home Vary Across Countries and People?” with Pablo Zarate, Mathias Dolls, Nicholas Bloom, Jose Maria Barrero and Cevat Giray Aksoy, working paper, 17 April 2024. VoxEU
“The Work-from-Home Divide” in Policy Stories, produced by the Hoover Institution, 11 April 2024
“The Big Shift in Working Arrangements: Eight Ways Unusual,” Macroeconomic Review, 23, no. 1, April 2024
"The (Heterogeneous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts," with John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Josh Lerner, Ben Lipsius and Javier Miranda. NBER WP 26371. Revised, 15 April 2024. Vox CEPR Policy Portal | NBER Digest | Chicago Booth Review
“Application Flows,” with Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, NBER WP 32320, 2 April 2024. Database Dictionary | Blog Post, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Slides for Keynote speech at IZA Conference on The Role of Search and Matching in Macroeconomics.
Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Credit Conditions,” with John Haltiwanger. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16, no. 2 (April), 2024. BFI Research Brief | Chicago Booth Review Article | Vox CEPR Policy Portal | Replication Package
Remarks on “The Emergence of a Uniform Business Cycle in the United States,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Conference, 29 March 2024.
“The Big Shift to Remote Work,” Red de Action Politics, Stanford, 22 March 2024. Slides
“Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database,” with Brown, Foster, Haltiwanger and Sabelhaus, 13 March 2024.
“Americans Now Live Farther from Their Employers,” with Akan, Barrero, Bloom, Bowen, Buckman, Pardue and Wilkie, February 2024. Blog Post | NY Times
“Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin,” with Pawel Krolikowski, 28 February 2024, NBER Working Paper 31528, revised. Slides | IZA World of Labor | Data and Replication Package
“How Much Work from Home Is There in the United States?” with Barrero, Bloom and Buckman. 27 January 2024.
“There’s No Magic in a Four-Day Workweek,” with Jose Maria Barrero, The Hill, 12 January 2024.
Remarks on “The Fed: Bad Forecasts and Misguided Monetary Policy” by Mickey Levy in Getting Monetary Policy Back on Track, edited by Michael J. Bordo, John H. Cochrane and John B. Taylor. Hoover Institution Press, 2024.
“The Evolution of Work from Home” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom. Journal of Economics Perspectives, Fall 2023. StoneEcon | Replication Package and Data | Eleos Replication Package Prize
“Long Social Distancing,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom. Journal of Labor Economics, October 2023 Replication Package | Slides | BFI Economic Finding | NBER Digest | The PIE (podcast)
“Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space” with Hansen, Lambert, Bloom, Sadun and Taska, 1 March 2023, NBER WP 31007. Data | BFI Finding | VoxEU
“The Shift to Remote Work Lessens Wage-Growth Pressures,” with Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas J. Bloom, Brent Myer and Emil Emil Mihaylov, 21 June 2022. NBER Working Paper 30197. BFI Economic Finding | Chicago Booth Review | Slides (with new material) | Hoover Workshop Video
“Policy News and Stock Market Volatility,” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Kyle Kost. Revised, December 2021. NBER Digest Summary | Data. | Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy
“Transport Infrastructure and Productivity: The China Experience,” with Meijun Qian, 28 May 2021. Slides
“Why Working from Home Will Stick,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom, 28 April 2021. NBER Working Paper 28731. Slides | Data and Code | BFI Economic Finding 1 | BFI Economic Finding 2 | NBER Digest | Chicago Booth Review | World Economic Forum Video Synopsis | Hoover Economic Policy Workshop | WFH_Research Website | Media Coverage | Updated Results
“What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Marco Sammon, 13 April 2021. NBER Working Paper 28687. Slides | Website | Coding Guide | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal
“Firm-Level Risk Exposures and Stock Returns in the Wake of COVID-19,” with Stephen Hansen and Cristhian Seminario-Amez, 3 February 2021, NBER Working Paper 27867. Slides | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Chicago Booth Review
“Elections, Political Polarization, and Economic Uncertainty,” with Scott R. Baker, Aniket Baksy, Nicholas Bloom and Jonathan Rodden, 9 October 2020. Chicago Booth Review | BFI Research Brief | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal