Topics include (but are not limited to): - Innovative methods for policy evaluation (e.g. based on field experiments) - Labor market policies for low-skilled, youth and other disadvantaged unemployed groups/welfare recipients - Labor market policies that deal with the aftermath of the...

We present evidence that the rise in inflation in Japan since 2014 is a result of a hidden stagflation: the relative prices of durable consumption and ICT investment goods stopped declining, reflecting technology stagnation and exerting an inflationary pressure on the economy and; the real side...