Various deviations from the Permanent Income consumption model with rational expectations have been discussed in the literature, including loss aversion and liquidity constraints. In the existing literature, these two types of consumption asymmetry are usually considered as mutually exclusive....

1. Carbon taxes as part of the fiscal solution / William G. Gale, Samuel Brown, and Fernando Saltiel -- 2. Choosing among mitigation instruments : how strong is the case for a US carbon tax? / Ian Parry -- 3. Administration of a US carbon tax / Jack Calder -- 4. Carbon taxes to achieve emissions...

1. What is agricultural policy and why does it exist? -- 2. Economic concepts applied to agricultural and food policy -- 3. Who makes agricultural policy and how is it made? -- 4. A brief history of agricultural policy -- 5. Early twentieth-century agricultural legislation -- 6. McNary-Haugens...

This paper uses U.S. credit register data and the 2018-19 Trade War to study the effects of uncertainty on domestic credit supply. Exploiting differences in banks' ex-ante exposure to trade uncertainty, we find that increased uncertainty is associated with a broad lending contraction across...

We show that standard menu cost models cannot simultaneously reproduce the dispersion in the size of micro-price changes and the extent to which the fraction of price changes increases with inflation in the U.S. time-series. Though the Golosov and Lucas (2007) model generates fluctuations in the...