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Underutilization of Federal Office Buildings in the Work-from-Home Era

All over the country, cities are grappling with the issue of empty office space. Will the workers come back?

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Bank of England Raises Interest Rates to 15-Year High Amid Inflation Concerns

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 5.25%, marking the 14th consecutive hike in a bid to combat soaring inflation.

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Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Goal

The “merger guidelines” that have been published by the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice since 1969–with updates happening every 10-15 years–serve an unusual role.

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Optimism About Inflation May Be Premature

Markets are pricing a rapid decline in inflation and the end of central bank policy normalization. However, there are two challenges ahead that we must consider.

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Levitt Interviews Solow on Life Events and Economic Growth

Robert Solow (Nobel ’87) is known in the economics profession for conceptualizing the broad methods of studying economic growth that are still used today.

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Productivity Research: Where It’s Been, Where It’s Headed

For any society, productivity growth is the difference between living in a zero-sum polity, where gains for some can only come as a result of costs for others, and a positive-sum policy, where social arguments can be about the distribution of gains rather than the imposition of losses. I sometimes say that no matter what your economic issues are, it’s a lot easier to achieve them in a positive-sum world.

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