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Stock</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;">Publication details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">1993–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">Publisher</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Brookings Press (<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">USA</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Periodical_literature#Frequency" title="Periodical literature">Frequency</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align:left;">semiannually</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#dfc;">Standard abbreviations<br /><span class="infobox-journal-search plainlinks" style="display:none;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://marcinwrochna.github.io/abbrevIso/?search=Brookings_Papers_on_Economic_Activity">ISO 4</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/">alt</a>) <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Bluebook_journals" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Bluebook journals">Bluebook</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://westerncriminology.org/publications/bluebook-abbreviations/">alt</a>)<br /><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=Brookings+Papers+on+Economic+Activity%5BJournal%5D">NLM</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/msnhtml/serials.pdf">MathSciNet</a> </span></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_4" title="ISO 4">ISO 4</a></th><td class="infobox-data identifier" style="text-align:left;"><i>Brook. Pap. Econ. Act.</i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b><i>Brookings Papers on Economic Activity</i> (<i>BPEA</i>)</b> is a journal of macroeconomics published twice a year by the <a href="/wiki/Brookings_Institution_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Brookings Institution Press">Brookings Institution Press</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each issue of the journal comprises the proceedings of a conference held biannually by the Economic Studies program at the <a href="/wiki/Brookings_Institution" title="Brookings Institution">Brookings Institution</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Washington D.C.">Washington D.C.</a> The conference and journal both "emphasize innovative analysis that has an empirical orientation, take real-world institutions seriously, and is relevant to economic policy."<sup id="cite_ref-about_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The journal is written in a clear and accessible manner in order to maximize understanding of economics and policymaking, and covers a variety of macroeconomic topics from housing, business investments, and fiscal and monetary policy, to international capital flows, environmental issues, and more.<sup id="cite_ref-about_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>The journal briefly released an annual issue dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Microeconomics" title="Microeconomics">microeconomic</a> issues, but this was dropped as the focus cemented around <a href="/wiki/Macroeconomic_policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Macroeconomic policy">macroeconomic policy</a>. </p><p><i><b>BPEA</b></i> has been ranked as a leading journal in the field since its initial publication in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Economist and former editor <a href="/wiki/Justin_Wolfers" title="Justin Wolfers">Justin Wolfers</a> has said that the journal is "the most public policy-focused of all serious economics journal, or, among all public policy journals, it's the most serious economic analysis."<sup id="cite_ref-about_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each issue typically publishes six full-length papers, along with comments by two peer reviewers per paper, and a summary of the general discussion from the conference. The journal is released in hard copy format following the conference, and all past editions are available freely online from the Institution's website. </p><p>Former <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> Chairman <a href="/wiki/Ben_Bernanke" title="Ben Bernanke">Ben Bernanke</a> contributed a paper to the Fall 2018 journal to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the financial crisis and the onset of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">Great Recession</a>. According to the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i>, Bernanke pointed out that "when investors fled from short-term financing markets in 2008, the panic engulfing Wall Street spread to the rest of the economy…"<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a></i> further cited Bernanke's <i><b>BPEA</b></i> contribution by noting that "Former <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> Chairman <a href="/wiki/Ben_Bernanke" title="Ben Bernanke">Ben Bernanke</a> said in a new paper that the credit-market panic that culminated 10 years ago when <a href="/wiki/Lehman_Brothers" title="Lehman Brothers">Lehman Brothers</a> failed better explains the severity of the 2007-09 recession than the housing bust does."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ben_Bernanke" title="Ben Bernanke">Bernanke</a> also discussed in his paper the decision not to rescue <a href="/wiki/Lehman_Brothers" title="Lehman Brothers">Lehman Brothers</a>, and reflected on the ramifications of that choice.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additionally, the journal also considers the social ramifications of economic policy. For example, the Spring 2019 paper "Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century" by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Case" title="Anne Case">Anne Case</a> and Sir <a href="/wiki/Angus_Deaton" title="Angus Deaton">Angus Deaton</a> looked deeply "at a divided America – and its crisis of suicide, overdoses, and drug- and alcohol-fueled diseases."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That paper was also cited in the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> for its notable findings, such as, "[s]ickness and early death in the white working class could be rooted in poor job prospects for less-educated young people as they first enter the labor market, a situation that compounds over time through family dysfunction, social isolation, addiction, obesity and other pathologies…".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><b>BPEA</b></i> commenced publication in 1970 under the editorship of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Okun" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Okun">Arthur Okun</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Perry_(American_economist)" title="George Perry (American economist)">George Perry</a>. Their inspiration for starting the journal was to task the best academic economists to apply themselves to real-world policy issues. Former Chair of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve" title="Federal Reserve">Federal Reserve</a> <a href="/wiki/Alan_Greenspan" title="Alan Greenspan">Alan Greenspan</a> was among the initial contributors to the first edition of <i><b>BPEA</b></i>. Following <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Melvin_Okun" title="Arthur Melvin Okun">Okun's</a> untimely death in 1980, <a href="/wiki/William_C._Brainard" class="mw-redirect" title="William C. Brainard">William C. Brainard</a> joined <a href="/wiki/George_Perry_(American_economist)" title="George Perry (American economist)">Perry</a> as co-editor from 1980 to 2007. In 2008, the journal was edited by <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Elmendorf" title="Douglas Elmendorf">Douglas Elmendorf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greg_Mankiw" title="Greg Mankiw">N. Gregory Mankiw</a>, and Harvard economist <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Summers" title="Lawrence Summers">Lawrence H. Summers</a>. Leading economists <a href="/wiki/David_Romer" title="David Romer">David Romer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Justin_Wolfers" title="Justin Wolfers">Justin Wolfers</a> served as editors from 2009 to 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Presently, <a href="/wiki/Janice_Eberly" title="Janice Eberly">Janice C. Eberly</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_H._Stock" title="James H. Stock">James H. Stock</a> have held the editorship since 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nobel_Prize–Winning_Authors"><span id="Nobel_Prize.E2.80.93Winning_Authors"></span>Nobel Prize–Winning Authors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brookings_Papers_on_Economic_Activity&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Nobel Prize–Winning Authors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Twenty-three winners of the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences" title="Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences">Nobel Prize in Economics</a> have contributed as authors or discussants for <i><b>BPEA</b></i> since its inception in 1970, including: </p><p> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kremer" title="Michael Kremer">Michael Kremer</a> (2019) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/ending-africas-poverty-trap/">Ending Africa's Poverty Trap</a>" Spring 2004</li></ul> <p> <a href="/wiki/William_Nordhaus" title="William Nordhaus">William Nordhaus</a> (2018) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/whos-afraid-of-a-big-bad-oil-shock/">Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Oil Shock?</a>" Fall 2007</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/productivity-growth-and-the-new-economy/">Productivity Growth and the New Economy</a>" 2002, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-recent-recession-the-current-recovery-and-stock-prices/">The Recent Recession, the Current Recovery, and Stock Prices</a>" 2002, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/policy-games-coordination-and-independence-in-monetary-and-fiscal-policies/">Policy Games: Coordination and Independence in Monetary and Fiscal Policies</a>" 1994, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/lethal-model-2-the-limits-to-growth-revisited/">Lethal Model 2: The Limits to Growth Revisited</a>" 1992, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/do-borders-matter-soviet-economic-reform-after-the-coup/">Do Borders Matter? Soviet Economic Reform after the Coup</a>" 1991, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/soviet-economic-reform-the-longest-road/">Soviet Economic Reform: The Longest Road</a>" 1990, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/alternative-approaches-to-the-political-business-cycle/">Alternative Approaches to the Political Business Cycle</a>" 1989, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/oil-and-economic-performance-in-industrial-countries/">Oil and Economic Performance in Industrial Countries</a>" 1980, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-falling-share-of-profits/">The Falling Share of Profits</a>" 1974, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-allocation-of-energy-resources/">The Allocation of Energy Resources</a>" 1973, No. 3</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-recent-productivity-slowdown/">The Recent Productivity Slowdown</a>" 1972, No. 3</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-worldwide-wage-explosion/">The Worldwide Wage Explosion</a>" 1972, No. 2</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Romer" title="Paul Romer">Paul M. Romer</a> (2018) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/looting-the-economic-underworld-of-bankruptcy-for-profit/">Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit</a>" 1993, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/implementing-a-national-technology-strategy-with-self-organizing-industry-investment-boards/">Implementing a National Technology Strategy with Self-Organizing Industry Investment Boards</a>" Microeconomics 2, 1993</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/capital-labor-and-productivity/">Capital, Labor, and Productivity</a>" Microeconomics 1990</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Hart_(economist)" title="Oliver Hart (economist)">Oliver Hart</a> (2016) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/1992/01/1992_bpeamicro_lakonishok.pdf">The Structure and Performance of the Money Management Industry</a>" 1992, (discussant)</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/nobel-prize-winning-authors/">Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure</a>" 1990</li></ul> <p>  <a href="/wiki/Angus_Deaton" title="Angus Deaton">Sir Angus Deaton</a> (2015) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/mortality-and-morbidity-in-the-21st-century/">Mortality and morbidity in the 21st Century</a>" 2017</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Jean_Tirole" title="Jean Tirole">Jean Tirole</a> (2014) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/1990/01/1990_bpeamicro_hart.pdf">Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure</a>" 1990</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Shiller" title="Robert J. Shiller">Robert J. Shiller</a>(2013) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/understanding-inflation-indexed-bond-markets/">Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets</a>" Spring 2009</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/low-interest-rates-and-high-asset-prices-an-interpretation-in-terms-of-changing-popular-economic-models/">Low Interest Rates and High Asset Prices: An Interpretation in Terms of Changing Popular Economic Models</a>" Fall 2007</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/is-there-a-bubble-in-the-housing-market/">Is There a Bubble in the Housing Market?</a>" 2003, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/what-have-they-been-thinking-homebuyer-behavior-in-hot-and-cold-markets/">What Have They Been Thinking? Homebuyer Behavior in Hot and Cold Markets</a>" Fall 2002</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/public-resistance-to-indexation-a-puzzle/">Public Resistance to Indexation: A Puzzle</a>" 1997, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/hunting-for-homo-sovieticus-situational-versus-attitudinal-factors-in-economic-behavior/">Hunting for Homo Sovieticus: Situational versus Attitudinal Factors in Economic Behavior</a>" 1992, No 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/stock-prices-and-social-dynamics/">Stock Prices and Social Dynamics</a>" 1984, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/forward-rates-and-future-policy-interpreting-the-term-structure-of-interest-rates/">Forward Rates and Future Policy: Interpreting the Term Structure of Interest Rates</a>" 1983, No. 1</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Sargent" title="Thomas J. Sargent">Thomas J. Sargent</a>(2011) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/rational-expectations-the-real-rate-of-interest-and-the-natural-rate-of-unemployment/">Rational Expectations, the Real Rate of Interest, and the Natural Rate of Unemployment</a>" 1973, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/rational-expectations-a-correction/">Rational Expectations: A Correction</a>" 1973, No. 3</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Christopher_A._Sims" title="Christopher A. Sims">Christopher A. Sims</a>(2011) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/monetary-policy-models/">Monetary Policy Models</a>" Fall 2007</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-role-of-models-and-probabilities-in-the-monetary-policy-process/">The Role of Models and Probabilities in the Monetary Policy Process</a>" 2002, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/what-does-monetary-policy-do/">What Does Monetary Policy Do?</a>" 1996, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/policy-analysis-with-econometric-models/">Policy Analysis with Econometric Models</a>" 1982, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/output-and-labor-input-in-manufacturing/">Output and Labor Input in Manufacturing</a>" 1974, No. 3</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Peter_Diamond" title="Peter Diamond">Peter A. Diamond</a>(2010) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/macroeconomic-aspects-of-social-security-reform/">Macroeconomic Aspects of Social Security Reform</a>" 1997, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-cyclical-behavior-of-the-gross-flows-of-u-s-workers/">The Cyclical Behavior of the Gross Flows of U.S. Workers</a>" 1990, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-beveridge-curve/">The Beveridge Curve</a>" 1989, No. 1</li></ul> <p>Christopher A. Pissarides (2010) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IoannidesTextFall15BPEA.pdf">Is the Greek Debt One of Supply or Demand?</a>" 2015</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Oliver_E._Williamson" title="Oliver E. Williamson">Oliver E. Williamson</a>(2009) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/vertical-intergration-and-market-foreclosure/">Vertical Integration and Market Foreclosure</a>" 1990 (discussant)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a>(2008) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/trade-and-wages-reconsidered/">Trade and Wages, Reconsidered</a>" Spring 2008</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/asset-returns-and-economic-growth/">Asset Returns and Economic Growth</a>" 2005, No. 1</li> <li>"I <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/its-baaack-japans-slump-and-the-return-of-the-liquidity-trap/">t's Baaack: Japan's Slump and the Return of the Liquidity Trap</a>" 1998, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/growing-world-trade-causes-and-consequences/">Growing World Trade: Causes and Consequences</a>" 1995, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-persistence-of-the-u-s-trade-deficit/">The Persistence of the U.S. Trade Deficit</a>" 1987, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-u-s-response-to-foreign-industrial-targeting/">The U.S. Response to Foreign Industrial Targeting</a>" 1984, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/flexible-exchange-rates-in-the-short-run/">Flexible Exchange Rates in the Short Run</a>" 1976, No.</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Phelps" title="Edmund Phelps">Edmund S. Phelps</a> (2006) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/roots-of-the-recent-recoveries-labor-reforms-or-private-sector-forces/">Roots of the Recent Recoveries: Labor Reforms or Private Sector Forces?</a>" 2000</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/causes-of-the-1980s-slump-in-europe/">Causes of the 1980s Slump in Europe</a>" 1986</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-medium-run/">The Medium Run</a>" 1997 (discussant)</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-growth-of-nations/">The Growth of Nations</a>" 1995 (discussant)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/George_Akerlof" title="George Akerlof">George Akerlof</a> (2001) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/unfinished-business-in-the-macroeconomics-of-low-inflation-a-tribute-to-george-and-bill-by-bill-and-george/">Unfinished Business in the Macroeconomics of Low Inflation: A Tribute to George and Bill by Bill and George</a>" Fall 2007</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/near-rational-wage-and-price-setting-and-the-long-run-phillips-curve/">Near-Rational Wage and Price Setting and the Long-Run Phillips Curve</a>" 2000, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-macroeconomics-of-low-inflation/">The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation</a>" 1996, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/looting-the-economic-underworld-of-bankruptcy-for-profit/">Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit</a>" 1993, No. 2</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/east-germany-in-from-the-cold-the-economic-aftermath-of-currency-union/">"East Germany in from the Cold: The economic aftermath of currency union</a>" 1991, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/job-switching-and-job-satisfaction-in-the-u-s-labor-market/">Job switching and job satisfaction in the U.S. labor market</a>" 1988, No. 2</li></ul> <p> <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz" title="Joseph Stiglitz">Joseph Stiglitz</a> (2001) </p> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/economic-crises-evidence-and-insights-from-east-asia/">Economic Crises: Evidence and Insights from East Asia</a>" 1998, No. 2</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/examining-alternative-macroeconomic-theories/">Examining Alternative Macroeconomic Theories</a>" 1988, No. 1</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/technological-change-sunk-costs-and-competition/">Technological Change, Sunk Costs, and Competition</a>" 1987, No. 3</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Daniel_McFadden" title="Daniel McFadden">Daniel L. 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