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Business Dynamics and Entrepreneurship

"Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing the Facts," with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. Labor Economics, Employment Policy, and Job Creation, Lewis C. Solmon and Alec R. Levenson, eds., Westview Press, 1994. New York Times | Chicago Booth Review

"Foretagandets Villkor: Spelregler for sysselsattning och tillvaxt," (Translation from Swedish: Entrepreneruial and Business Conditions: Rules of the Game for Employment and Growth.) Stockholm, Sweden: SNS, 1996. (Primary author: Magnus Henrekson). 

"Job Creation and Destruction," with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996.

"The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico," with Luis Rivera-Batiz The Economy of Puerto Rico, Susan M. Collins, Barry Bosworth, and Miguel A. Soto-Class, eds., Brookings Institution Press and Center for the New Economy, 2006.

"Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded versus Privately Held Firms," with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2006. Correcting Typo in Modified Volatility Expression | Chicago Booth Review

"Understanding Business Dynamics: An Integrated Data System for America's Future," A committee report with multiple authors, The National Academies Press, 2007. (View book webpage)

"Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes," with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, C.J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci, and Kristin Sandusky. NBER Working Paper No. 13226, 2007. Published in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen and Mark J. Roberts, University of Chicago Press, 2009. Visit the webpage for the book at the U of C press

"Private Equity and Employment," with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda. NBER Working Paper No. 17399,  September 2011. NBER Digest summary | Chicago Booth Review

"Labor Market Fluidity and Economic Performance," with John Haltiwanger, November 2014. Slides The Economist Cato Research Brief NBER Digest Programs and Data Files

"Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity".  with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda. American Economic Review, December 2014. Slides | Data and Program Files | "Reply to Ayash and Rastad"

COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 20 July 2020. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Summer 2020 Special Edition. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange (The Economist) | Brookings | Webinar | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Cato Research Brief | Data and Programs

Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty,”with Nicholas Bloom, Lucia Foster, Brian Lucking, Scott Ohlmacher and Itay Saporta-Eksten,16 December 2020. BFI Economic Finding

Pandemic-Era Uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street,” with Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, Nicholas Parker, David Altig, Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom, 31 December 2020. BFI Economic Finding

COVID-19 Shifted Patent Applications toward Technologies that Support Working from Home,” with Nick Bloom and Yulia Zhestkova, AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2021. Slides (with updated data) | Replication Package | Chicago Booth Review

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. VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Chicago Booth Review

COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock,” with Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Brent Meyer. AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2021. Data and Programs | Slides | BFI Economic Finding

Firm-Level Planning Frequencies and Forecast Horizons,” with David Altig and others, 28 November 2021.

Pandemic-Era Uncertainty” with Brent Meyer and others, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, July 2022. BFI Economic Finding

Surveying Business Uncertainty,” with David Altig, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Brent Meyer and Nicholas Parker, November 2022, Journal of Econometrics. Data | Chicago Booth Review

“Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Credit Conditions,” with John Haltiwanger, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2024. BFI Research Brief | Chicago Booth Review Article | Vox CEPR Policy Portal | Replication Package

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

"The (Heterogeneous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts," with John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Josh Lerner, Ben Lipsius and Javier Miranda. NBER WP 26371. Revised, 21 August 2024. Forthcoming in Management Science. Vox CEPR Policy Portal | NBER Digest | Chicago Booth Review

Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database,” with J. David Brown, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and John Sabelhaus, 5 December 2024.

Competition Policy and Industrial Organization

"The Distribution of Employees by Establishment Size: Patterns of Change and Comovement in the United States, 1962-1985," Unpublished with John Haltiwanger. 1989.

"Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden," with Magnus Henrekson. The Welfare State in Transition, Richard Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

"Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment," with Magnus Henrekson. Small Business Economics, February 1999.

"A Competitive Perspective on Internet Explorer," with Kevin M. Murphy. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2000.

“Adverse Price Effects of Entry in Markets with Few Firms,” with with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel, incomplete working paper. April 2001.

"Economic Perspectives on Software Design: PC Operating Systems and Platforms," with Jack MacCrisken and Kevin M. Murphy. Microsoft, Antitrust, and the New Economy: Selected Essays, David S. Evans, ed., Kluwer Academic Press of Massachusetts, 2002.Data

"Entry, Pricing, and Product Design in an Initially Monopolized Market," with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel. Journal of Political Economy, February 2004.

"Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy," with Magnus Henrekson. Labour Economics, Vol 12, No. 3, 2005.

"Private Equity and Employment," with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda. NBER Working Paper No. 17399,  September 2011.NBER Digest summary | Chicago Booth Review

"Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity".  with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda. American Economic Review, December 2014. Slides | Data and Program Files | "Reply to Ayash and Rastad"

"The (Heterogeneous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts," with John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Josh Lerner, Ben Lipsius and Javier Miranda. NBER WP 26371. Revised, 21 August 2024. Forthcoming in Management Science. Vox CEPR Policy Portal | NBER Digest | Chicago Booth Review

Economic Fluctuations

"Allocative Disturbances, Aggregate Disturbances, and Unemployment Rate Fluctuations," Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: University Microfilms International, 1986. (Ph.D. Thesis).

"Allocative Disturbances and Specific Capital in Real Business Cycle Theories," American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 1987.

"Fluctuations in the Pace of Labor Reallocation," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 27, 1987.

"Gross Job Creation and Destruction: Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications," with John Haltiwanger. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1990.

"Allocative Disturbances and Temporal Asymmetry in Unemployment Rate Fluctuations," unpublished, April 1991.

"Job Creation and Destruction," with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996.

"Regional Labor Fluctuations: Oil Shocks, Military Spending, and other Driving Forces," with Prakash Loungani and Ramamohan Mahidhara. Working paper, January 1997. (Large file.)

"On the Driving Forces behind Cyclical Movements in Employment and Job Reallocation," with John Haltiwanger. American Economic Review, December 1999. Also available as NBER working paper 5775: (PDF) The NBER Working Paper version considers an expanded VAR model with a larger set of driving forces.

"Gross Job Flows," with John Haltiwanger. Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3, Edited by: Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, Elsevier Science B.V., 1999.

"Sectoral Job Creation and Destruction Responses to Oil Price Changes," with John Haltiwanger. Journal of Monetary Economics, December 2001. Also available as NBER working paper 7095: (PDF)

"The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links," with R. Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2006.

"Volatility and Dispersion in Business Growth Rates: Publicly Traded versus Privately Held Firms," with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, and Javier Miranda. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2006. Correcting Typo in Modified Volatility Expression | Chicago Booth Review

"Interpreting the Great Moderation: Changes in the Volatility of Economic Activity at the Macro and Micro Levels," with James A. Kahn. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2008.

"Business Volatility, Job Destruction and Unemployment," with R. Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2010. Also available as NBER Working Paper no. 14300, September 2008: (PDF) | | (Unpublished appendix) | | (Data files and programs).

"Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time," NBER Working Paper No. 17294, Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2012.

"Recessions and the Costs of Job Loss," with Till von Wachter. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, April 2012.NBER Digest Summary | 

"Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence," with Jason Faberman and John C. Haltiwanger. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2012.

"Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty," with Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom. Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2016.  Data | Replication | Audit Analysis Files | Hard Copies of Audited Articles | Slides | May 2013 Version | LSE Blog Post | Cato Research Brief | Chicago Booth Review

Economic Policy Uncertainty in China Since 1949: The View from Mainland Newspapers,” with Dingqian Liu and Xugang S. Sheng, 21 August 2019.

"Rising Policy Uncertainty," 2020. In Alternative Economic Indicators, edited by C. James Hueng. Upjohn Institute: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Available as NBER w.p. no 26243. Chicago Booth Review.

Covid-Induced Economic Uncertainty” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Stephen J. Terry. Vox CEPR Policy Portal, 13 April 2020.

Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” with Dave Altig and others, 2020. Journal of Public Economics, 191 (November). Becker Friedman Institute | Bank Underground (Bank of England Blog) | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal

The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19,” with Scott R. Baker, Nick Booom, Kyle Kost, Marco Sammon and Tasaneeya Viratyosin, 2020. Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10, no. 4 (December). Earlier version published in Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 1. Chicago Booth Review | CBR Interview | CEPR Interview

COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 20 July 2020. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Summer 2020 Special Edition. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange (The Economist) | Brookings | Webinar | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Cato Research Brief | Data and Programs

Pandemic-Era Uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street,” with Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, Nicholas Parker, David Altig, Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom, 31 December 2020. BFI Economic Finding

COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock,” with Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Brent Meyer, 9 March 2021. AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2021.Data and Programs | Slides | BFI Economic Finding

Asian Monetary Policy Forum, 2014 - 2020: Insights for Central Banking, edited by Steven J. Davis, Edward Robinson and Bernard Yeung. World Scientific Publishing, May 2021. Introductory essay

Policy Uncertainty in Japan” with Elif C. Arbatli, Arata Ito, Naoko Miake, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022. Website and Data | Replication Package | Blog Post | Cato Research Brief | Japanese-Language Website | Slides | BFI Research Brief

Stock Prices and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus” with Dingqian Liu and Xuguang Simon Sheng, IMF Economic Review, 2022. December 2020 Version | Replication Package | Slides | Video (starting at 5:00) | BFI Economic Finding

Pandemic-Era Uncertainty” with Brent Meyer and others, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, July 2022. BFI Economic Finding

State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty,” with Scott R. Baker and Jeffrey A. Levy, Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2022. State-Level EPU Data | Replication Package | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU | Chicago Booth Review

“Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Credit Conditions,” with John Haltiwanger, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2024. BFI Research Brief | Chicago Booth Review Article | Vox CEPR Policy Portal | Replication Package

Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation,” prepared for the Hoover Institution Monetary Policy Conference held at Stanford University on 2-3 May 2024. This draft: 10 June 2024.

Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin,” with Pawel Krolikowski, 23 July 2024, NBER Working Paper 31528, revised. Accepted, American Economic Review. Slides | IZA World of Labor | Data and Replication Package

What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Marco Sammon. NBER Working Paper 28687, revised 3 December 2024.  Slides | Website | Coding Guide | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal

Energy Markets and Energy Shocks

"Regional Labor Fluctuations: Oil Shocks, Military Spending, and other Driving Forces," with Prakash Loungani and Ramamohan Mahidhara. Working paper, January 1997. (Large file.)

"Sectoral Job Creation and Destruction Responses to Oil Price Changes," with John Haltiwanger. Journal of Monetary Economics, December 2001. Also available as NBER working paper 7095: (PDF)

"Prices and Quantities of Electricity in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector: A Plant-Level Database and Public-Release Statistics, 1963-2000," with Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Mary Streitwieser. Working paper, November 2007.

"Productivity Dispersion and Input Prices: The Case of Electricity," with Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger. Working paper, March 2008.

"Regulatory Regimes and Electricity Pricing for Manufacturing Customers," with Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger. Working paper, May 2008.

"Electricity Pricing to U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000," with Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Mary Streitwieser. May 2010. Also available as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13778, April 2009:  (PDF) | | (Appendix)

"Electricity Unit Value Prices and Purchase Quantities: U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-2000," with Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Mary Streitwieser. Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2013. Supplementary Appendix | Data for Figures

Fiscal Policy and the Effects of Taxes

"Government Debt, Redistributive Fiscal Policies, and the Interaction between Borrowing Constraints and Intergenerational Altruism," with David Altig. Journal of Monetary Economics, July 1989.

"The Timing of Intergenerational Transfers, Tax Policy, and Aggregate Savings," with David Altig. American Economic Review, December 1992.

"Borrowing Constraints and Two-Sided Altruism with an Application to Social Security," with David Altig. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1993.

"Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons," with Magnus Henrekson. Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe, R. Gomez Salvador, A. Lamo, B. Petrongolo, M. Ward, and E. Wasmer, eds., Edward Elgar Press, 2005.

"Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s," with Magnus Henrekson. Reforming the Welfare State, Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., University of Chicago Press, Februrary 2010.

Hiring, Job Loss, Worker Mobility, and Unemployment

"Allocative Disturbances, Aggregate Disturbances, and Unemployment Rate Fluctuations," Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: University Microfilms International, 1986. (Ph.D. Thesis). 

"Fluctuations in the Pace of Labor Reallocation," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 27, 1987.

"Gross Job Creation and Destruction: Microeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Implications," with John Haltiwanger. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1990.

"Allocative Disturbances and Temporal Asymmetry in Unemployment Rate Fluctuations," unpublished, April 1991.

"Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction, and Employment Reallocation," with John Haltiwanger. Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1992. | "CES Working Paper 90-4, February 1990, which contains additional results on how the distribution of employment growth rates varies over time and across industries."

"Job Creation and Destruction," with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996.

"On the Driving Forces behind Cyclical Movements in Employment and Job Reallocation," with John Haltiwanger. American Economic Review, December 1999. Also available as NBER working paper 5775: (PDF) The NBER Working Paper version considers an expanded VAR model with a larger set of driving forces.

"Gross Job Flows," with John Haltiwanger. Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 3, Edited by: Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, Elsevier Science B.V., 1999.

"Sectoral Job Creation and Destruction Responses to Oil Price Changes," with John Haltiwanger. Journal of Monetary Economics, December 2001. Also available as NBER working paper 7095: 

"The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links," with R. Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2006.

"The Decline of Job Loss and Why It Matters," American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2008.

"Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS," with Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger and Ian Rucker, November 2009. Labor in the New Economy, edited by Katharine Abraham, Michael Harper and James Spletzer, 2010. (Adjusted JOLTS data)

"Business Volatility, Job Destruction and Unemployment," with R. Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin and Javier Miranda. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, April 2010. Also available as NBER Working Paper no. 14300, September 2008: (PDF) | | (Unpublished appendix) | | (Data files and programs).

"Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time," NBER Working Paper No. 17294, Journal of Monetary Economics, January 2012.Data and Programs

"Recessions and the Costs of Job Loss," with Till von Wachter. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, April 2012.NBER Digest Summary | Programs and Data Files

"Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence," with Jason Faberman and John C. Haltiwanger. American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2012.

"The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring," with Jason Faberman and John Haltiwanger. NBER Working Paper No. 16265, revised. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2013.Data and Program Files | Data Updates through May 2020

"Recruitment and Vacancy Durations in Germany"  with Christof Röttger, Anja Warning (née Kettner) and Enzo Weber, Regensburger Diskussionsbeiträge zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft 481. June 2014.

"Labor Market Fluidity and Economic Performance," with John Haltiwanger, November 2014. Slides The Economist Cato Research Brief NBER Digest Programs and Data Files

A Generalized Model of Hiring Dynamics: Evidence, Implementation, and Implications,” with Leland D. Crane, R. Jason Faberman and John C. Haltiwanger, May 2016.

COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 20 July 2020. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Summer 2020 Special Edition. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange (The Economist) | Brookings | Webinar | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Cato Research Brief | Data and Programs

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.

Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin,” with Pawel Krolikowski, 23 July 2024, NBER Working Paper 31528, revised. Accepted, American Economic Review.. Slides | IZA World of Labor | Data and Replication Package

International Comparative Studies

"Cross-Country Patterns of Change in Relative Wages," NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1992.

"Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden," with Magnus Henrekson. The Welfare State in Transition, Richard Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

"Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment," with Magnus Henrekson. Small Business Economics, February 1999.

"Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons," with Magnus Henrekson. Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe, R. Gomez Salvador, A. Lamo, B. Petrongolo, M. Ward, and E. Wasmer, eds., Edward Elgar Press, 2005.

"Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy," with Magnus Henrekson. Labour Economics, Vol 12, No. 3, 2005.

"Företagandets villkor, tillväxten och sysselsättningen i 90-talskrisens kölvatten," (Translation from Swedish: "The Business Climate, Growth and Employment in the Wake of the Crisis in the Early 1990s".) with Magnus Henrekson. Att reformera välfärdsstaten— Amerikanskt perspectiv pa den svenska modellen, Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 2006.

"The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico," with Luis Rivera-Batiz The Economy of Puerto Rico, Susan M. Collins, Barry Bosworth, and Miguel A. Soto-Class, eds., Brookings Institution Press and Center for the New Economy, 2006.

"Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s," with Magnus Henrekson. Reforming the Welfare State, Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., University of Chicago Press, Februrary 2010.

Stock Prices and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus” with Dingqian Liu and Xuguang Simon Sheng, IMF Economic Review, 2022. December 2020 Version | Replication Package | Slides | Video (starting at 5:00) | BFI Economic Finding

Working from Home Around the World,” with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas J. Bloom, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate. Bookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022. G-SWA Micro Data | Brookings Podcast | BFI Economic Finding | The Pie (podcast) | VoxEU | Replication Package

Working from Home Around the Globe: 2023 Report,” with Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Dolls and Karate, 28 June 2023. Data | Economist

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.

Measurement and Data Development

"Published Versus Sample Statistics from the ASM: The Implications for the LRD," with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, 1990.

"Size Distribution Statistics from County Business Patterns Data," Unpublished 1990.

"Job Creation and Destruction," with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996.

"Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows," with John Haltiwanger. Labor Statistics Measurement Issues, John Haltiwanger, Marilyn Manserm, and Robert Topel, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

"Prices and Quantities of Electricity in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector: A Plant-Level Database and Public-Release Statistics, 1963-2000," with Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, and Mary Streitwieser. Working paper, November 2007.

"Understanding Business Dynamics: An Integrated Data System for America's Future," A committee report with multiple authors, The National Academies Press, 2007. (View book webpage)

"Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS," with Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger and Ian Rucker, November 2009. Labor in the New Economy, edited by Katharine Abraham, Michael Harper and James Spletzer, 2010. (Adjusted JOLTS data)

"Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes," with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, C.J. Krizan, Javier Miranda, Alfred Nucci, and Kristin Sandusky. NBER Working Paper No. 13226, 2007. Published in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen and Mark J. Roberts, University of Chicago Press, 2009. Visit the webpage for the book at the U of C press

“Economic Policy Uncertainty in China,”  with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Sophie Wang. January 2013.Data

"Recruitment and Vacancy Durations in Germany"  with Christof Röttger, Anja Warning (née Kettner) and Enzo Weber, Regensburger Diskussionsbeiträge zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft 481. June 2014.

"Current and Potential Uses of Big Data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics," Remarks prepared for the BLS Technical Advisory Committee June 2014.

“Some Thoughts on How to Improve the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey,” 19 June 2014. Slides to accompany remarks at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC.

"An Index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty," October 2016.Data | CNBC graphic | Chicago Booth Review graphic

"Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty," with Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom. Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2016.  Data | Replication | Audit Analysis Files | Hard Copies of Audited Articles | Slides | May 2013 Version | LSE Blog Post | Cato Research Brief | Chicago Booth Review

“The DHI Vacancy and Application Flow Database: Record Layouts, Variable Descriptions, and Summary Statistics,” with Brenda Samaniego de la Parra, 2 February 2019.

Economic Policy Uncertainty in China Since 1949: The View from Mainland Newspapers,” with Dingqian Liu and Xugang S. Sheng, 21 August 2019.

Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” with Dave Altig and others, 2020, Journal of Public Economics, 191 (November). Becker Friedman Institute | Bank Underground (Bank of England Blog) | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal

The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19,” with Scott R. Baker, Nick Booom, Kyle Kost, Marco Sammon and Tasaneeya Viratyosin, 2020. Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10, no. 4 (December). Earlier version published in Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 1. Chicago Booth Review | CBR Interview | CEPR Interview

COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 20 July 2020. The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange (The Economist) | Brookings | Webinar | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Cato Research Brief

60 Million Fewer Commuting Hours per Day: How Americans Use Time Saved by Working from Home,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 15 September 2020. Typo-corrected version.

The Stock Market Reaction to Trump’s Surprise Election Win,” with Stephen Hansen and Cristhian Seminario-Amez, October 2020.

Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty,”with Nicholas Bloom, Lucia Foster, Brian Lucking, Scott Ohlmacher and Itay Saporta-Eksten,16 December 2020. BFI Economic Finding

COVID-19 Shifted Patent Applications toward Technologies that Support Working from Home,” with Nick Bloom and Yulia Zhestkova, AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2021. Slides (with updated data) | Replication Package | Chicago Booth Review

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 | Hoover Economic Policy Workshop | WFH_Research Website

Twitter-Derived Measures of Economic Uncertainty,” with Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Thomas Renault, 31 May 2021. Daily, weekly and monthly measures available here on PolicyUncertainty.com.

Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom. In Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy, ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz (Washington D.C.: Aspen Institute Press, 2021). Executive Summary | Slides | BFI Economic Finding | Chicago Booth Review | Video production

Firm-Level Planning Frequencies and Forecast Horizons,” with David Altig and others, 28 November 2021.

Policy Uncertainty in Japan” with Elif C. Arbatli, Arata Ito, Naoko Miake, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022. Website and Data | Replication Package | Blog Post | Cato Research Brief | Japanese-Language Website | Slides | BFI Research Brief

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

Surveying Business Uncertainty,” with David Altig, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Brent Meyer and Nicholas Parker. Journal of Econometrics, November 2022. Data | Chicago Booth Review

State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty,” with Scott R. Baker and Jeffrey A. Levy, Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2022. State-Level EPU Data | Replication Package | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU | Chicago Booth Review

Working from Home Around the World,” with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas J. Bloom, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate. Bookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022. G-SWA Micro Data | Brookings Podcast | BFI Economic Finding | The Pie (podcast) | VoxEU | Replication Package

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space” with Hansen, Lambert, Bloom, Sadun and Taska, 1 March 2023, NBER WP 31007. Data | BFI Finding

Working from Home Around the Globe: 2023 Report,” with Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Dolls and Karate, 28 June 2023. Data | Economist

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)

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.

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

Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin,” with Pawel Krolikowski, 23 July 2024, NBER Working Paper 31528, revised. Accepted, American Economic Review. Slides | IZA World of Labor | Data and Replication Package

Policy News and Stock Market Volatility,” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Kyle Kost. Revised, 19 November 2024. Resubmitted, Journal of Financial Economics. NBER Digest Summary | Data. | Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy

What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Marco Sammon. NBER Working Paper 28687, revised 3 December 2024.  Slides | Website | Coding Guide | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal

Financing, Ownership, and Performance: A Novel, Longitudinal Firm-Level Database,” with J. David Brown, Lucia Foster, John Haltiwanger and John Sabelhaus, 5 December 2024.

Portfolio Choice, Asset Pricing, and Household Risk Sharing

"Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption," with Orazio Attanasio. Journal of Political Economy, December 1996.

"Using Financial Assets to Hedge Labor Income Risk: Estimating the Benefits," with Paul Willen. Working paper, March 2000.

"On the Gains to International Trade in Risky Financial Assets," with Jeremy Nalewaik and Paul Willen. Working paper, September 2001.

"Risky Labor Income and Portfolio Choice," with Paul Willen. Innovations in Retirement Financing, Zvi Bodie, Olivia S. Mitchell, Brett Hammond, and Stephen Zeldes, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

"Borrowing Costs and the Demand for Equity over the Life Cycle," with Felix Kubler and Paul Willen. Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2006. Matlab Programs

"Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implications for Portfolio Choice," with Paul Willen. Quarterly Journal of Finance, September 2013.NBER Working Paper version available here

The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19,” with Scott R. Baker, Nick Booom, Kyle Kost, Marco Sammon and Tasaneeya Viratyosin, 2020. Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10, no. 4 (December). Earlier version published in Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers, Issue 1. Chicago Booth Review | CBR Interview | CEPR Interview

The Stock Market Reaction to Trump’s Surprise Election Win,” with Stephen Hansen and Cristhian Seminario-Amez, October 2020.

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. VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Chicago Booth Review

Stock Prices and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus” with Dingqian Liu and Xuguang Simon Sheng, IMF Economic Review, 2022. December 2020 Version | Replication Package | Slides | Video (starting at 5:00) | BFI Economic Finding

Policy News and Stock Market Volatility,” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Kyle Kost. Revised, 19 November 2024. Resubmitted, Journal of Financial Economics. NBER Digest Summary | Data. | Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy

What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Marco Sammon. NBER Working Paper 28687, revised 3 December 2024.  Slides | Website | Coding Guide | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal

 Productivity and Innovation

"Productivity Dispersion and Input Prices: The Case of Electricity," with Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger. Working paper, March 2008.

"Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity".  with John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda. American Economic Review, December 2014. Slides | Data and Program Files | "Reply to Ayash and Rastad"

COVID-19 Shifted Patent Applications toward Technologies that Support Working from Home,” with Nick Bloom and Yulia Zhestkova, AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2021. Slides (with updated data) | Replication Package | Chicago Booth Review

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 | Hoover Economic Policy Workshop | WFH_Research Website

Transport Infrastructure and Productivity: The China Experience,” with Meijun Qian, 28 May 2021 Slides

Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom. In Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy, ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz (Washington D.C.: Aspen Institute Press, 2021). Executive Summary | Slides | BFI Economic Finding | Chicago Booth Review | Video production

The Evolution of Work from Home” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom. Journal of Economics Perspectives, Fall 2023.  Replication Package and Data | Eleos Replication Package Prize

"The (Heterogeneous) Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts," with John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Josh Lerner, Ben Lipsius and Javier Miranda. NBER WP 26371. Revised, 21 August 2024. Forthcoming in Management Science. Vox CEPR Policy Portal | NBER Digest | Chicago Booth Review

Public Policy

"Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden," with Magnus Henrekson. The Welfare State in Transition, Richard Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

"The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico," with Luis Rivera-Batiz The Economy of Puerto Rico, Susan M. Collins, Barry Bosworth, and Miguel A. Soto-Class, eds., Brookings Institution Press and Center for the New Economy, 2006.

"War in Iraq versus Containment," with Kevin M. Murphy and Robert H. Topel. In Guns and Butter: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Conflict, Gregory D. Hess, ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. (Afterword | Programs and Data | MIT press webpage | March 2003 essay: 'War in Iraq vs. Containment, weighing the costs'

"Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s," with Magnus Henrekson. Reforming the Welfare State, Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel, eds., University of Chicago Press, Februrary 2010.

"Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery?," in Government Policies and the Delayed Economic Recovery, Hoover Institution Press, edited by Lee Ohanian, John B. Taylor, and Ian Wright, February 2012.

"Why Has US Policy Uncertainty Risen Since 1960?,", with Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Brandice Canes-Wrone, and Jonathan Rodden. NBER Working Paper #19826.  American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2014.

"An Index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty," October 2016.Data | CNBC graphic | Chicago Booth Review graphic

"Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty," with Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom. Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2016.  Data | Replication | Audit Analysis Files | Hard Copies of Audited Articles | Slides | May 2013 Version | LSE Blog Post | Cato Research Brief | Chicago Booth Review

"Regulatory Complexity and Policy Uncertainty: Headwinds of Our Own Making," April 2017. Prepared for the Hoover Institution Conference on Restoring Prosperity: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives Slides

Economic Policy Uncertainty in China Since 1949: The View fro Mainland Newspapers,” with Dingqian Liu and Xugang S. Sheng, 21 August 2019.

"Rising Policy Uncertainty," 2020. In Alternative Economic Indicators, edited by C. James Hueng. Upjohn Institute: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Available as NBER w.p. no 26243. Chicago Booth Review.

COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 20 July 2020. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Summer 2020 Special Edition. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange (The Economist) | Brookings | Webinar | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Cato Research Brief | Data and Programs

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

Asian Monetary Policy Forum, 2014 - 2020: Insights for Central Banking, edited by Steven J. Davis, Edward Robinson and Bernard Yeung. World Scientific Publishing, May 2021. Introductory essay

Stock Prices and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus” with Dingqian Liu and Xuguang Simon Sheng, IMF Economic Review, 2021. December 2020 Version | Replication Package | Slides | Video (starting at 5:00) | BFI Economic Finding

Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom. In Rebuilding the Post-Pandemic Economy, ed. Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz (Washington D.C.: Aspen Institute Press, 2021). Executive Summary | Slides | BFI Economic Finding | Chicago Booth Review | Video production

Policy Uncertainty in Japan” with Elif C. Arbatli, Arata Ito, Naoko Miake, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022. Website and Data | Replication Package | Blog Post | Cato Research Brief | Japanese-Language Website | Slides | BFI Research Brief

State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty,” with Scott R. Baker and Jeffrey A. Levy, Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2022. State-Level EPU Data | Replication Package | BFI Economic Finding | VoxEU | Chicago Booth Review

Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation,” prepared for the Hoover Institution Monetary Policy Conference held at Stanford University on 2-3 May 2024. This draft: 10 June 2024.

Policy News and Stock Market Volatility,” with Scott Baker, Nick Bloom and Kyle Kost. Revised, 19 November 2024. Resubmitted, Journal of Financial Economics. NBER Digest Summary | Data. | Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy

Wage Structure: Measurement, Explanation, and Consequences

"Wage Dispersion Between and Within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986," with John Haltiwanger. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics, 1991.

"Cross-Country Patterns of Change in Relative Wages," NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 1992.

"Employer Size and the Wage Structure in U.S. Manufacturing," with John Haltiwanger. Annales D'Economie et de Statistique, January/June 1996.

"Relative Wage Movements and the Distribution of Consumption," with Orazio Attanasio. Journal of Political Economy, December 1996.

"The Quality Distribution of Jobs and the Structure of Wages in Search Equilibrium," NBER Working Paper number 8434, August 2001.

"Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy," with Magnus Henrekson. Labour Economics, Vol 12, No. 3, 2005.

"Recessions and the Costs of Job Loss," with Till von Wachter. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, April 2012.NBER Digest Summary | Programs and Data Files

"Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implications for Portfolio Choice," with Paul Willen. Quarterly Journal of Finance, September 2013.NBER Working Paper version available here

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

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)

Working Arrangements

COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Summer, 2020. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange | Brookings | Webinar | VoxEU CEPR Policy Portal | Cato Research Brief

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 | Hoover Economic Policy Workshop | WFH_Research Website

“Let Me Work from Home, or I Will Find another Job,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 19 July 2021. BFI Working Paper 2021-87.

Don’t Force People to Come Back to the Office Full Time,” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, Harvard Business Review, 24 August 2021. Bloomberg interview (starting at 11:22)

Working from Home Around the World,” with Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas J. Bloom, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate. Bookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022. G-SWA Micro Data | Brookings Podcast | BFI Economic Finding | The Pie (podcast) | VoxEU | Replication Package

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

Time Savings When Working from Home,” with Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Dolls and Karate, 2023. AEA Papers & Proceedings, 113. BFI Finding | VoxEU | Chicago Booth Review

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space” with Hansen, Lambert, Bloom, Sadun and Taska, 1 March 2023, NBER WP 31007. Data | BFI Finding

Working from Home Around the Globe: 2023 Report,” with Aksoy, Barrero, Bloom, Dolls and Karate, 28 June 2023. Data | Economist

The Evolution of Work from Home” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom. Journal of Economics Perspectives, Fall 2023.  Replication Package and Data | Eleos Replication Package Prize

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.

The Big Shift in Working Arrangements: Eight Ways Unusual,” Macroeconomic Review, 23, no. 1, April 2024

Review Essays and Comments

"Does Search Theory Provide a Micro Foundation for Keynesian Economics and a Rationale for Policy Activism?," A Review of Peter Diamond's Wicksell Lectures, Journal of Monetary Economics, September 1986.

Comment on "International Trade and American Wages in the 1980s" by Rovert Z. Lawrence and Matthew Slaughter. with Robert Topel. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics, 1993.

"Sorting, Learning and Mobility When Jobs Have Scarcity Value: A Comment," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 46, 1997.

Comment on "In Search of Stolper-Samuelson Linkages between International Trade Theory and Lower Wages"  by Edward E. Leamer, Imports, Exports, and the American Worker, Susan Collins, ed., Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.

Comment on "Job Reallocation and the Business Cycle" by Scott Schuh and Robert Triest in Beyond Shocks: What Causes Business Cycles? (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Annual Economic Conference Volume), 1998.

"Reorganization: A Comment," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Vol. 52, 2000.

Comments on "The Welfare Consequences of the Increase in Inequality in the United States" by Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2003.

Comments on "Job Loss, Job Finding and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy over the Past Fifty Years" by Robert Hall, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2005.

Comments on "Evidence on Labor Supply and Taxes, and Implications for Tax Policy" by Nada Eissa, in Tax Policy Lessons from the 2000s, Alan Viard, ed., American Enterprise Institute, 2009.

Comments on "Do tax cuts starve the beast?,"  by Christina Romer and David Romer, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2010.

Comment on "Job Search, Emotional Well-Being and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment" by Alan Krueger and Andreas Mueller Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011.

Comments on "The U.S. Employment-Population Reversal in the 2000s: Facts and Explanations," by Robert Moffitt, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2012, October 2012. Slides

Comments on "A Unified Approach to Measuring u*," by Crump, Eusepi, Giannoni and Sahin, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2019.

Comments on “The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis” by Anna Stansbury and Lawrence H. Summers, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2020.

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.

Written comments on “The Emergence of a Uniform Business Cycle in the United States” by Fieldhouse, Munro, Koch and Howard. 27 May 2024. Forthcoming in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Slides to accompany oral remarks at the Spring 2024 BPEA Conference.