Die globale Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise nahm in den USA ihren Anfang und stürzte in ihrer Folge nicht nur die Vereinigten Staaten, sondern auch das ohnehin verschuldete Europa in eine Wirtschaftskrise gigantischen Ausmasses. Acht Millionen Jobs gingen allein in den USA zwischen 2007 und 2009...

Most government expenditure is on goods that yield primarily private benefits, such as education, pensions, and healthcare. We argue that markets are most advantageous in areas where high-powered incentives are desirable, but in areas where high-powered incentives stimulate unproductive...

This dissertation consists of three separate essays. In the first essay, privatization is found to improve bank performance by both better monitoring of existing firms, and improved selection of new bank clients. Data on firms borrowing from government-owned banks, and firms borrowing from a...

This special issue of the B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics collects papers presented at a Conference on Empirical Macroeconomics Using Geographical Data, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on March 18, 2011.

States without a judicial requirement for foreclosures are twice as likely to foreclose on delinquent homeowners. Comparing zip codes close to state borders with differing foreclosure laws, we show that foreclosure propensity and housing inventory jump discretely as one enters non-judicial...