This paper shows that daily Google trends can be used as an alternative to conventional U.S. data (with alternative frequencies) on unemployment, interest rates, inflation and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This information is used to investigate the effects of COVID-19 and the...

The argument in favor of good policy to explain the Great Moderation is back. In this paper,I am interested in analyzing the role of monetary policy in order to explain business cycle fluctuations in the United States between 1960 and 2012. I build a model with non independent drifting...

The revolving door between government and the private sector has been criticized throughout history, based on the argument that it may lead to a pro-business bias in government policies. While this phenomenon has been extensively investigated for legislative and executive branch bodies, far less...