Unequal Lives, Unequal Benefits: Life Expectancy and Social Security Rules
Javier Fernández-Blanco and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos evaluate the welfare implications of retirement benefits that ignore predictable differences in life expectancy.
Topic Archive: Macroeconomics
Business Cycles with Pricing Cascades
Mishel Ghassibe and Anton Nakov explain why pricing decisions can shift abruptly after large shocks, and why the same network structure can either mute or magnify inflation depending on the source of the disturbance.
How Labor Contracts Shape Firm Success and Productivity
Josep Pijoan-Mas and Pau Roldan-Blanco explore how fixed-term and open-ended contracts affect firm behavior and outcomes in Spain.
How the Data Revolution Boosted Productivity but Not Welfare
Vladimir Asriyan and Alexandre Kohlhas develop a quantitative-theoretical framework to explore the macroeconomic consequences of the rise in data use by firms.
