Some items listed under more than one heading.
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.
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.