Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Power of Pardons: Broadening Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals -- Chapter 3: Establishing the Job-Relatedness of Criminal Convictions -- Chapter 4: An Examination of Barriers and Challenges to Securing and Maintaining Employment...

This paper shows that rising real estate prices reduce industry productivity, because they lead to a reallocation of capital and labor towards inefficient firms. I establish that the rise in real estate value during the US housing boom relaxes firms' financial constraints. Companies borrow...

The economic recovery in CESEE has strengthened further in recent months, resulting in a number of additional upgrades to our growth forecasts for 2021, to 5.4% on the regional average. This good performance has been built on two important foundation stones: the adaptation of the CESEE economies...