Do investment tax incentives improve job prospects for workers? We explore states' adoption of a major federal tax incentive that accelerates the depreciation of equipment investments for eligible firms but not for ineligible ones. Analyzing massive establishment-level datasets on occupational...

Three years have passed since the Bank of Japan's asset purchase program was introduced in 2011, causing a sharp decline in the value of the Japanese Yen. What would be the implications for Japan and Korea's exporters if the weak Yen is here to stay? We explore this question by examining...

Monetary growth targeting is often seen as an effective way of supporting macroeconomic stability. We scrutinize this property by checking whether multiplicity of equilibria, in the form of local indeterminacy (LI), can be both a possible and a plausible outcome of a basic model with an...

In principle, anything that a player can do to communicate and coordinate with other players could be described by moves in an extensive-form game, so that planning these communication moves would become part of the player's strategy choice itself. Adding a communication system does not...