attempted to manage a successful common currency when sub-national political entities were allowed to have separate currencies … and run independent monetary policies. Congress created a common currency that was too large to use in ordinary … transactions. Congress hoped this currency would be held for post-war redemption and would not circulate as money during the war …

domestically or borrow abroad in terms of the domestic currency. We conduct an historical case study for a group of countries that … their debt history relating the currency to the place of issue, exploring the residency of those holding local and foreign … currency debt and looking at the maturity of domestic debt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We find that sound fiscal …

.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in defaults from 2006 to 2008. Employing land topology-based housing …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …

. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …

This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation … decisions. The probability that a household owns tax-advantaged assets is strongly related to its tax rate on ordinary income …