Manuel Balmaseda
Manuel Balmaseda
A Global Business Economist should look at the world as it is, not as it ought to be. We need to be mind-readers, anticipating questions to come and pre-emptively searching for answers. Global interactions are making economic analysis incre...
Is there a labor shortage? [0.03%]
真的有劳力短缺吗？
Michael Horrigan,Misty Heggeness,Kate Bahn et al.
Michael Horrigan et al.
A panel discusses ongoing and prospective developments in the US labor market. Michael Horrigan points out that job losses in the COVID recession were heavily concentrated among women, minorities, and less-educated workers. In turn, these g...
Housing preferences during the pandemic: effect on home price, rent, and inflation measurement [0.03%]
疫情期间的住房偏好：对房价、租金和通胀测量的影响
Molly Boesel,Shu Chen,Frank E Nothaft
Molly Boesel
With shelter comprising a one-third weight in the Consumer Price Index, an accurate measure of rent change is essential for determining factors affecting inflation measurement, economic policy, and consumer and business decisions. The pande...
Azhar Iqbal,Sam Bullard
Azhar Iqbal
Our study presents a framework to estimate economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic for the U.S. economy. We characterize whether the pandemic-related damages are short-lived or long-lasting. The potential damages are estimated in terms of l...
Labor market outcomes under digital platform business models in the sharing economy: the case of the taxi services industry [0.03%]
共享经济下数字平台商业模式的劳动力市场效应——以出租车行业为例
Sanae Tashiro,Stephen Choi
Sanae Tashiro
This research investigates the effects of ride-sharing online platforms on the taxi and limousine industry. It also compares and contrasts labor market outcomes between conventional taxi drivers and Uber drivers during the Covid-19 pandemic...
Francine D Blau,Josefine Koebe,Pamela A Meyerhofer
Francine D Blau
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis and allocating scarce re...
High-frequency data from the U.S. Census Bureau during the COVID-19 pandemic: small vs. new businesses [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情时期的美国人口普查局高频数据：小微企业与新兴企业
Catherine Buffington,Daniel Chapman,Emin Dinlersoz et al.
Catherine Buffington et al.
Small businesses experienced very sharp declines in activity, business sentiment, and expectations early in the pandemic. While there has been some recovery since then, multiple indicators of small business performance remained substantiall...
The market for acquiring card payments from small and medium-sized Canadian merchants [0.03%]
加拿大中小型商户银行卡支付市场的竞争格局报告
Angelika Welte,Jozsef Molnar
Angelika Welte
This article builds on industry data and a unique dataset of small and medium-sized merchants to provide insights into the acquirer-merchant market in Canada. Three main findings are presented. First, smaller merchants pay their acquirer mo...
Lisa D Cook,Nela Richardson,Jim Tankersley
Lisa D Cook
Barriers to entering the field of invention have led to negative outcomes for individuals and for the economy. We built a vibrant middle class in the post-war era because we started to tear down many of the barriers that had kept women of a...
David Bernstein
David Bernstein
Survey data from 2018 indicate that people accessing 401(k) funds prior to retirement through loans or hardship distributions tend to have other debts and poor credit ratings. The tendency for people with weak household balance sheets to ta...