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September 21, 2021, Book Chapter: "This paper employs an updated algorithm and database for classifying exchange rate and anchor currency choice, to explore the evolution of the global exchange rate ...

India changed its data sources and methodology for estimating real gross domestic product (GDP) for the period since 2011-12. This paper shows that this change has led to a significant overestimation ...

2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...

January 3, 2022, Interview: "Forecasting economic change in a pandemic was always going to be hard. Now omicron, the new COVID-19 variant sweeping across the globe, has made it even harder. Economists ...

November 30, 2023, Video: "The role of immigration in shaping the nation's economy remains a hotly contested area of debate. Factors such as the real economic benefits of high-skilled versus ...

June 17, 2020, Paper, "We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics ...

July 2020, Paper, "There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, ...

June 14, 2021, Paper: "Two central insights from the Schumpeterian approach to innovation and growth are that the pace of innovation is endogenously determined by the expectation of future pro ts and ...